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"Talent helps, but success is only achieved and sustained through consistent effort."
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Personal Development
"I tried your best and it didn't work, so now I'm going to try my best and I'm sure that I'll succeed!"
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Personal Development
"Diligence always makes a person rich."
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Personal Development
"Do not stop giving your soul-best."
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Personal Development
"If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy."
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Personal Development
"Plans are easy to make, dreams are easy to dream. But putting your back into it? A little bit of hard graft and discipline? That is just too scary and far too much effort for the masses."
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Personal Development
"Success comes before work only in the dictionary."
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Personal Development
"Your race against life must yield effort for you to be productive."
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Personal Development
"The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort."
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Personal Development
"You get what you work for, not what you think you deserve."
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"I've always been very impatient. At age 10 I frankly found life boring, and I can remember age 9 having the awful thought, as it seems now looking back on it, A war! That should liven things up a bit!"
Life
"Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill until 18 or 19, when she took some training in domestic science."
Science
"When I was about to break a world record and become well known, my mother used to say that for her the important thing was for me to become a doctor - a career which had not been possible in her generation and in her society. Sport was something to be set aside."
Society
"My athleticism was really the core to social acceptance, because in those days the overwhelming number of students came from more of a public school background than I did."
Acceptance
"Athletics is a luxury."
Sports
"You get very tired, and there was a certain amount of pain and you slow up. Your legs are so tired that you are in fact slowing. If you don't keep running, keep your blood circulating, the muscles stop pumping the blood back and you get dizzy."
Blood
"Your spikes, which were really quite long then, would catch the material of the track and your shoe would get heavier. I was simply filing them down and rubbing some graphite on the spikes. I thought I would run more effectively."
Thought
"I was involved in music, acting, and some running, but my firm wish was to become a doctor. That was the formative age when I had decided on the pattern of my career."
Age
"I enjoy singing, and the instruments which truly move me are the horn, the trumpet and the cello."
Music
"I was always a great bundle of energy. As a child, instead of walking, I would run. And so running, which is a pain to a lot of people, was always a pleasure to me because it was so easy."
People
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