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"Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?"
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"Persistence creates genius; without persistence, there is no winner."

"All that the spider needs to complete its web is step taking."

"When you get a pinch and decide to give up, you will get a cut when you eventually do so. The consequences of giving up are more harmful than the causes. Just don't give up!"

"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."

"Talent does not automatically generate success. You can be talentless, but so long as you have fortitude then you will have success."

"Strong enough to make holes in the rock are tiny drops of water that persist to fall. Persistence is the attitude that breaks down mountains one rock at a time!"

"To succeed even once you have to try at least once."

"With patience, you will finish the race set before you."

"For some, putting in the time or work to be prepared and live deliberately is natural. For others? It's work. However, as in the words of Thomas Jefferson, "If you want something you have never had, you must be willing to do something you have never done."
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"If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time."

"The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children."

"A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back - but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you."

"Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it."

"Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time."

"You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day."
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