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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
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I'm not a genius.
I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb
Life is not about how fast you run
or how high you climb
but how well you bounce.
- Vivian Komori
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Nothing is softer or more flexible than water,
yet nothing can resist it.
- Lao Tzu
You are never given a wish without also
being given the power to make it true.
You may have to work for it, however.
- Richard Bach
No great thing is created suddenly.
- Epictetus
Never, never, never give up.
- Winston Churchill
There's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.
- the character Morpheus in the movie The Matrix
A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
- George Savile
When the water starts boiling
it is foolish to turn off the heat.
- Nelson Mandela
We can do anything we want to
if we stick to it long enough.
- Helen Keller
Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.
- Virgil
Patience, persistence, and perseverance.
A little more each day, a little better each day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If a warrior is to succeed at anything,
the success must come gently,
with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.
- Carlos Castaneda
The key to everything is patience.
You get the chicken by hatching the egg,
not by smashing it open.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.
You have only to persevere to save yourselves.
- Winston Churchill
Genius is one percent inspiration
and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
- Thomas Edison
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
- Benjamin Disraeli
You can have anything you want -
if you want it badly enough.
You can be anything you want to be,
do anything you set out to accomplish
if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
- Abraham Lincoln
Never give up on the most important goals in your life.
Never give up on your life purpose.
Never give up on your core values.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
- Eddie Cantor
Keep moving. Don't stop. But don't rush.
Don't race around.
Sure and steady gets you there every time.
- Neale Donald Walsch
It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman,
before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
- John Quincy Adams
Ideas, yes.
Inspiration, yes.
Creativity, yes.
Planning, yes.
Perseverance, yes.
More perseverance, yes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not;
nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not;
unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not;
the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
- Calvin Coolidge
The price of success is hard work,
dedication to the job at hand,
and the determination that whether we win or lose,
we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
- Vince Lombardi
The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools,
but the gentle touches of air and water
working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
- Benjamin Franklin
The sum of wisdom is that
time is never lost that is devoted to work.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Patience, persistence and perspiration
make an unbeatable combination for success.
- Napoleon Hill
Persistence prevails when all else fails.
- Anonymous
The majority of men meet with failure
because of their lack of persistence
in creating new plans to take
the place of those which fail.
- Napoleon Hill
When you find your path, you must not be afraid.
You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes.
Disappointment, defeat, and despair are
the tools God uses to show us the way.
- Paulo Coelho
Balance activity with serenity,
wealth with simplicity,
persistence with innovation,
community with solitude,
familiarity with adventure,
constancy with change,
leading with following.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A little more persistence,
a little more effort, and
what seemed hopeless failure
may turn to glorious success.
- Elbert Hubbard
The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
- Herbert Kaufman
When you get into a tight place
and everything goes against you,
till it seems you cannot hold on a minute longer,
never give up then, for that is just
the place and time the tide will turn.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
I think and think for months and years.
Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false.
The hundredth time I am right.
- Albert Einstein
If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?
- Henry David Thoreau
The world will persist in exhibiting before you
what you persist in affirming the world is.
- Emma Curtis Hopkins
In the councils of government,
we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence,
whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power
exists and will persist.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence,
whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
The potential for the disastrous rise
of misplaced power exists and will persist.
We must never let the weight of this combination
endanger our liberties or democratic processes.
We should take nothing for granted.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower in his Farewell Address of January, 17 1961
What you resist, persists.
- Carl Jung
The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace.
A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being
that places harmony in one's life.
- Peace Pilgrim
The distinction between the past, present and future
is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
- Albert Einstein
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
- Albert Einstein
Life's most persistent and urgent question is,
'What are you doing for others?'
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
He who is persistent will realize God.
So try your best to make meditation
a regular experience in your life.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
A little simplification would be
the first step toward rational living.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts;
wisdom lies in their simplification.
- Martin Fischer
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
I never accepted the idea
that I had to be guided by
some pattern or blueprint.
- Little Richard
Unlike grown-ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Mother is the name for God
in the lips and hearts of little children.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Most truths are so naked
that people feel sorry for them
and cover them up,
at least a little bit.
- Edward R. Murrow
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back
and realize they were the big things.
- Robert Brault
Genuine heroes - no batteries needed -
bring lots of open-mind and at least a little courage.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let the refining and improving of your own life
keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Little do men perceive what solitude is,
and how far it extendeth.
For a crowd is not company,
and faces are but a gallery of pictures,
and talk but a tinkling cymbal,
where there is no love.
- Francis Bacon
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
- Benjamin Franklin
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live
that his happiness shall depend
as little as possible on external things.
- Epictetus
My definition of success is to live your life in a way
that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -
and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel
a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
- Tony Robbins
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- Socrates
Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin
The choice is to work alone to be a little
more successful than the next person,
or to work together for the great betterment of humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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