"I would rather stay positive and get 50 percent good results, than stay negative and get 100 percent bad results!"
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"If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you."
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"If his decision is correct, he will win the battle, even if it lasts longer than expected. If his decision is wrong, he will be defeated and he will have to start all over again-only this time with more wisdom. But once he has started, a warrior of the light perseveres until the end."
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"Perseverance is not a passive submission to circumstances-it is a strong and active response to the difficult events of life."
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"If we'd beaten 'em, I wouldn't be going out."
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"If you don't pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves."
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"Thinking too well of people often allows them to be better than they otherwise would."
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"I can look back at my own life and see where a few words of praise have sharply changed my entire future. Can't you say the same thing about your life?"
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"Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer."
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"The only thing that feeling bad accomplishes is to plummet you into anxiety, despair, depression, and stress. In such situations, ask yourself in that moment what THOUGHT you can have that will make you feel GOOD!"
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"We must try not to sink beneath our anguish, Harry, but battle on."
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"Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions."
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"Go for the moon. If you don't get it, you'll still be heading for a star."
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"To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly."
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"We begin to praise when we begin to see a thing needs our assistance."
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"Honorary degrees and lifetime achievement awards are very encouraging. I know that it might sound strange that a writer who has published many books still needs encouragement, but this is true."
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"First there are those who are winners, and know they are winners. Then there are the losers who know they are losers. Then there are those who are not winners, but don't know it. They're the ones for me. They never quit trying. They're the soul of our game."
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"Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment."
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"I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it."
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"Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate."
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