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Admiral Hyman Rickover
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.
Aesop
Plodding wins the race.
Albert Einstein
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Andre Gide
It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking at it that one overcomes it; but, rather, often by working on the one next to it. Certain people and certain things require to be approached at an angle.
Ann Landers
Don't give up. Keep going. There is always a chance that you will stumble over something terrific. I have never hear of anyone stumbling over anything while he was sitting down.
Anonymous
Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.
Anonymous
It takes a little courage, and a little self-control. And some grim determination, If you want to reach the goal. It takes a deal of striving, and a firm and stern-set chin. No matter what the battle, If you really want to win. There's no easy path to glory, There's no road to fame. Life, however we may view it, Is no simple parlor game; But it's prizes call for fighting, For endurance and for grit; For a rugged disposition and don't know when to quit.
Anonymous
The man on top of the mountain did not fall there.
Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
A door opens to me. I go in and am faced with a hundred closed doors.
Author Unknown
The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking places.
Author Unknown
When the world says, Give up,Hope whispers, "Try it one more time.
Author Unknown
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.
Author Unknown
The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground.
Author Unknown
The race is not always to the swift... but to those who keep on running.
Author Unknown
There is no telling how many miles you will have to run while chasing a dream.
Author Unknown
Don't be discouraged. It's often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.
Author Unknown
I may not be there yet, but I'm closer than I was yesterday.
Author Unknown
When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum.
Author Unknown
Difficult things take a long time, impossible things a little longer.
Barbara Kingsolver
What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.
 
 
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