"Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes."
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"Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear."
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"A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop."
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"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."
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"With the full realization that, in order to earn for ourselves any place in the sun, we must with perseverance and self-discipline work collectively for the full first-class citizenship participation of Minorities everywhere, including ourselves."
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"It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something."
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"He who has infinite patience and infinite energy at his back, will alone succeed."
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"Long distance running is particularly good training in perseverance."
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"Perseverance and tact are the two great qualities most valuable for all those who would climb, but especially for those who have to step out of the crowd."
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"I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment."
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"People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit."
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"Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little."
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"When things go wrong, don't go with them."
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"The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing."
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"Ability and perseverance are the weapons of weakness."
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"He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind."
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"If you are going to do large-scale invention, you have to be willing to do three things: You must be willing to fail; you have to be willing to think long term; and you have to be willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time."
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"Your persistence is, in fact, the true measure of your belief in yourself and your ability to succeed. Each time that you persist in the face of adversity and disappointment, you build the habit of persistence."
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"I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right."
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"Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain. The mind does not create what it perceives, anymore than the eye creates the rose."
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