"A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues."

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"Sometimes giving up feels like the easiest thing to do. But then the easiest thing has never produced more than a garden full of weeds."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"If you continue to hit your head against the wall, don't be surprised if your head hurts."

Charles F. Glassman, American Author

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"I think people give up, because it's the easy option, but my goodness; why would giving up be easy? Your living your life chasing anything to fill the void of what came about when you let go of everything that mattered? I'd rather fight like mad, for everything that will ever matter, because giving in to anything that doesn't will never cure the dream."

Nikki Rowe, American Writer

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"Sharpen your life always; even though it will come to an end like a pencil, we have to keep on writing."

Munia Khan, Bangladeshi Poet

Persistence, Life, Writing, Creativity

"There's a reason why golfers walk forward to their next shot. It's to move on."

J.R. Rim, American Author

Persistence, Observation, Movement, Progress

"To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it."

Mother Teresa, Albanian Leader

Persistence, Action, Consistency, Effort

"Sometimes the further away the target, the less you have to try to get there."

Charles F. Glassman, American Author

Persistence, Effort, Distance, Focus, Strategy

"Never stop just because you feel defeated. The journey to the other side is attainable only after great suffering."

Santosh Kalwar, Nepalese Poet

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"Patience is a virtue, but there comes a moment when you must stop being patient and take the day by the throat and shake it. If it fights back; fine. I'd rather end up bloody at the end of the day, then unhurt with no progress made, no knowledge gained. I'd rather have a no, then nothing. I'd forgotten that about myself."

Laurell K. Hamilton, American Writer

Persistence, Patience, Life, Truth

"Live in your dream. Refuse to wake up until it is completely over. Then dream again."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

Persistence, Dream, Life, Living

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"Sometimes giving up feels like the easiest thing to do. But then the easiest thing has never produced more than a garden full of weeds."

"If you continue to hit your head against the wall, don't be surprised if your head hurts."

"Sharpen your life always; even though it will come to an end like a pencil, we have to keep on writing."

"There's a reason why golfers walk forward to their next shot. It's to move on."

"To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it."

"Sometimes the further away the target, the less you have to try to get there."

"Never stop just because you feel defeated. The journey to the other side is attainable only after great suffering."

"Live in your dream. Refuse to wake up until it is completely over. Then dream again."

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"An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics."

"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."

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled."

"It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything."

"Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large."

"It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt."

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