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BENJAMIN DISRAELI:
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
DALE CARNEGIE:
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept
on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
JANE ADDAMS:
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one
unexpended effort that might have saved the world.
JOHN DEWEY:
Arriving at one point is the starting point to another.
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and
obstacles vanish.
KATHERINE MANSFIELD:
E. M. Forster never gets any further than warming the teapot. He's a rare fine hand at that.
Feel this teapot. Is it not beautifully warm? Yes, but there ain't going to be no tea.
LAO-TSE:
In this world, there is nothing softer or thinner than water. But to compel the hard and
unyielding, it has no equal. That the weak overcomes the strong, that the hard gives way to
the gentle -- this everyone knows. Yet no one asks accordingly.
LOUIS PASTEUR:
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know
that so it goes on flying anyway.
OVID:
Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.
ROBERT FROST:
The best way out is always through.
SOPHIA LOREN:
Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some
people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with
vastly superior talent.
STEPHEN COVEY:
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying
it out.
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or
accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning,
intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
VICTOR FRANKL:
What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for
some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the
call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.
W. C. FIELDS:
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.
WINSTON CHURCHILL:
If you're going through hell, keep going.