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"It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head."
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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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Live in your dream. Refuse to wake up until it is completely over. Then dream again."
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"Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages."

"Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment."

"I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles, but today it means getting along with people."

"I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power which can move the world."

"While in Bombay, I began, on one hand, my study of Indian law and, on the other, my experiments in dietetics in which Virchand Gandhi, a friend, joined me. My brother, for his part was trying his best to get me briefs. The study of India law was a tedious business. The Civil Procedure Code I could in no way get on with. Not so however, with the Evidence Act. Virchand Gandhi was reading for the Solicitor's Examination and would tell me all sorts of stories about Barristers and Vakils."
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