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When I began my humanitarian work, I understood
that in order to gain credibility I needed patience,
commitment and unwavering perseverance. I needed to
ignore the skeptics.
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Most
people never run far enough on their first wind to find
out they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got
and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
-- William James
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"When
you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and
hang on."
-- Thomas Jefferson
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To every obstacle oppose patience, perseverance and
soothing language.
-- Thomas Jefferson
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Acknowledge
that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to
your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
-- Michael Johnson
“Great
works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance”
-- Samuel Johnson
"I can
accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can't
accept not trying."
-- Michael Jordan
"Obstacles
don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn
around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through
it or work around it."
-- Michael Jordan
"Don't
follow in any footprints, make your own prints. Because,
you are the future of tomorrow."
-- Jackie Joyner-Kersee
" Don't
be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up
failure, Learn from your failures and go on to the next
challenge. It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're
not growing."
-- H. Stanley Judd
“Try
and fail, but don't fail to try.”
-- Stephen Kaggwa
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"We can do anything we want as long as we stick
to it long enough."
-- Helen Keller
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Defeat is simply a signal to press onward.
--
Helen Keller
Although
the world is very full of suffering, it is also full
of the overcoming of it.
-- Helen
Keller
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Champions
keep playing until they get it right.
-- Billie Jean King
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If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that
keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that
quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And
so today I still have a dream.
-- Martin Luther
King, Jr
“We
must accept finite disappointment, but we must never
lose infinite hope.”
--
Martin Luther King,
Jr
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Opportunities
are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't
recognize them.
-- Ann Landers
“For
all things difficult to acquire, the intelligent man works
with perseverance.”
-- Lao Tzu
“The
flower that follows the sun does so even in cloudy days”
-- Robert Leighton
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“My
great concern is not whether you have failed, but
whether you are content with your failure.”
-- Abraham Lincoln
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The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought
not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe
to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln
I
will prepare and some day my chance will come.
-- Abraham Lincoln
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Always
bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more
important than any one thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln
“Perseverance
is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough
and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.”
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Age
wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.”
-- Douglas MacArthur
There
is genius in persistence. It conquers all opposers. It gives
confidence. It annihilates obstacles. Everybody believes
in a determined man. People know that when he undertakes
a thing, the battle is half won, for his rule is to accomplish
whatever he sets out to do.
-- Orison Swett Marden
"We
conquer by continuing."
-- George Matheson
"A difficult
time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction
that our existence holds a purpose - a cause to pursue,
a person to love, a goal to achieve."
-- John Maxwell
"He
who labors diligently need never despair; for all things
are accomplished by diligence and labor.”
-- Menander
Plan
your progress carefully; hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month.
Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings
of your power.
-- Paul J. Meyer
English
author and humorist "Rivers know this: there is no hurry.
We shall get there some day."
-- A.A. Milne (1882-1956), (Alan Alexander Milne)
The
heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained
by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept,
were toiling upward in the night.
-- Thomas S. Monson
Big
shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
-- Christopher Morley
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"When
hit hard by events, don't say, 'Why me?' The answer
is to the why me question is 'Why not me? Am I so
special that bad things shouldn't happen to me?' Ask
instead, 'What do I do next?'"
-- Lynne Namka (AngriesOut.com)
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"When
hit hard by events, don't say, 'Why me?' The answer
is to the why me question is 'Why not me? Am I so
special that bad things shouldn't happen to me?' Ask
instead, 'What do I do next?'"
-- Lynne Namka (AngriesOut.com)
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Don't
let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something
stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway;
we might just as well put that passing time to the best
possible use.
-- Earl Nightingale
Perseverance
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