"If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves."
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"Perseverance... keeps honor bright: to have done, is to hang quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail in monumental mockery."
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"If you have infinite patience and perseverance, success is bound to come. No mistake in that."
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"Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages."
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"On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow."
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"We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives."
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"Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty."
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"The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top."
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"A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day."
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"When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes."
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"What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement."
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"It is the business of little minds to shrink."
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"Nothing is more inspiring than a person with seemingly mediocre talent rising against the odds to become a champion by way of hard work, effort, and perseverance toward their goals."
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"All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one... characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers."
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"you can do anything you set your mind to"
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"Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield."
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"All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man has taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first."
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"What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble."
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"Few things are impossible to diligence and skill."
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"A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit."
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