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"If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything."
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"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!"
"To succeed even once you have to try at least once."
"Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions."
"Opportunity may come to the patient, but always comes to the persistent."
"To pray is to make petition."
"Encourage yourself and do it bit by bit. It may appear tough, but every single bite of it every day is an endorsement that all will be chopped off sooner. Nothing is too difficult!"
"Evil in general does not sleep, and therefore doesn't see why anyone else should."
"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."
"Get this; without a continuous struggle, your previous struggles will become a waste. Stay on and hold on until the success become evident."
"Don't run away from the gains because it comes with pains. If you ever love to go for the sweet honey, be ready to be stung by a busy bee! Go for it anyway!"
Explore more quotes by William Lyon Phelps
"The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him."
"God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing."
"A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices."
"If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow."
"You can be deprived of your money, your job and your home by someone else, but remember that no one can ever take away your honor."
"Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money."
"A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands."
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