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"The triumph can't be had without the struggle."
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"I am talking about misery and all of its implications."

"The "growing" we attribute to becoming more mature, could be more accurately described as "shrinking", as we cut away the nonsense that emotionally weighs us down."

"Always try to be someone of value than someone famous."

"When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it."

"Many of you think about your childhood and particularly about things that did not work out. Forget that and instead think of what you have achieved and what you aspire to do in the times to come.""

"I am who I am because the tears of my past have watered the magnificence of my present."

"In whatever we do, we should be investing in ourselves and not our jobs. Everything I have ever pursued has been for the sole goal of who I was becoming in its achievement. I competed and fought because of the man I became. This is the only worthwhile victory. You cannot take the trophies with you."

"Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well."

"Ambition is the ignition of a car we call life."

"Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression."
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"It doesn't matter what you're trying to accomplish. It's all a matter of discipline. I was determined to discover what life held for me beyond the inner-city streets."

"My doctor told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother."

"I loved the feeling of freedom in running, the fresh air, the feeling that the only person I'm competing with is me."

"I ran and ran and ran every day, and I acquired this sense of determination, this sense of spirit that I would never, never give up, no matter what else happened."

"Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday."

"When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome."
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