"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."

Angelou, Maya on action
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"Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful."

Hansen, Mark Victor on action
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"Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor."

Allen, James on courage
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"We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity."

Angelis, Barbara De on courage
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"The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior."

Battista, D.A. on courage
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"Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it."

Conrad, Joseph on courage
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"Have the courage to live. Anyone can die."

Cody, Robert on courage   

"No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good."

Cicero, Marcus T. on courage
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"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm."

Churchill, Winston on courage
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"This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure."

Churchill, Winston on courage
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"Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on courage
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"A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die."

Brown, Les on courage
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"I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames."

Brown, Les on courage
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"It requires more courage to suffer than to die."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on courage
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"But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]"

Bible on courage
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"The only people who never fail are those who never try."

Chase, Ilka on failure
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"A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself."

Clemenceau, Georges on failure
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"Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal -- a commitment to excellence -- that will enable you to attain the success you seek."

Andretti, Mario on desire
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"What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning"

Angelis, Barbara De on purpose
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"Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did."

Gingrich, Newt on perseverance
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"Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them."

Landers, Ann on opportunity
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"We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid."

Franklin, Benjamin on stupidity
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"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure."

Powell, Colin on success
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"I'm proof that great things can happen to ordinary people if they work hard and never give up."

Herhiser, Orel on perseverance
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"No matter how hard you work for success if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible."

Baudjuin on thoughts and thinking   

"Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even."

Ali, Muhammad on determination
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"Your body is an amazing creation, capable of performing great wonders, but you can destroy that miraculous machine's potential with an overdose of stress."

Johnson, Harry J. on possibilities   

"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another."

Elliott, Walter on perseverance
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"Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus."

South, Bishop Robert on failure
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"Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on patience
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"Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow -- that is patience."

Unknown, Source on patience
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"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."

Coolidge, Calvin on perseverance
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"Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible."

Chesterfield, Lord on perseverance
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"Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances."

Marden, Orison Swett on success   

"You never will be the person you can be if pressure, tension and discipline are taken out of your life."

Bilkey, James G. on difficulties
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"Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that."

Hazlitt, William on hope
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"One of the most valuable things we can do to heal one another is listen to each other's stories."

Falls, Rebecca on listening
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"Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by."

Ovid on perseverance
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"Dead Last Finish is greater than Did Not Finish, which trumps Did Not Start."

Anonymous on running
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"If you can accept losing you can't win. If you can walk you can run. No one is ever hurt. Hurt is in your mind."

Lombardi, Vince on winners and winning