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"If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything."
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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."
"Sharpen your life always; even though it will come to an end like a pencil, we have to keep on writing."
"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."
"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!"
"Get this; without a continuous struggle, your previous struggles will become a waste. Stay on and hold on until the success become evident."
"Persistence creates genius; without persistence, there is no winner."
"With persistent focus, commitment and enthusiasm, your dream will be reality."
"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root."
"Talent does not automatically generate success. You can be talentless, but so long as you have fortitude then you will have success."
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"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."
"If I were running the world I would have it rain only between 2 and 5 a.m. Anyone who was out then ought to get wet."
"I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget."
"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."
"If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible."
"This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him."
"Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money."
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