"A man is not finished when he's defeated; he's finished when he quits."

Nixon, Richard M. on perseverance
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"Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting."

Morley, Christopher on perseverance
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"Paralyze resistance with persistence."

Hayes, Woody on perseverance
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"There's only one way you can fail, and that's to quit."

Hays, Brian on perseverance
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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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"The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job."

Hill, Napoleon on perseverance   

"The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale."

Housman, A. E. on perseverance   

"If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do succeed."

Howard, Curly on perseverance
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"We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough."

Keller, Helen on perseverance
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"If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they have gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you. Except the Will which says to them; Hold on!"

Kipling, Rudyard on perseverance   

"I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards."

Lincoln, Abraham on perseverance
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"I never thought I didn't have a card to play."

Lovell, Jim on perseverance   

"Endurance is the crowning quality..."

Lowell, James Russell on perseverance
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"You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing."

Mcpherson, Rene on perseverance
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"I leave before being left. I decide."

Bardot, Brigitte on love
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"Good. There are many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness."

Jung, Carl on sadness
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"The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods and meadows brown and sear."

Bryant, William C. on sadness   

"When a man has once loved a woman, he will do anything for her, except continue to love her."

Wilde, Oscar on love
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"I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love."

Strindberg, J. August on love
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"In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future."

Stendhal, Henri B. on love
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"She's gone. I am abused, and my relief must be to loathe her."

Shakespeare, William on love
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"In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things."

Proust, Marcel on love
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"Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is."

Murdoch, Iris on love
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"There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on love
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"It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him."

Duras, Marguerite on love
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"When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach."

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth on love
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"We gather strength from sadness and from pain Each time we die we learn to live again."

Unknown, Source on sadness
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"Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences."

Maurois, Andre on infidelity
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"He that waits for a dead man's shoes may long go barefoot."

Proverb, French on hope
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"Quit not certainty for hope."

Proverb on hope   

"What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?"

Kant, Immanuel on hope   

"Amateurs hope, professionals work."

Kanin, Garson on hope
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"Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment."

Johnson, Samuel on hope   

"The darkest day, If you live till tomorrow will have past away."

Cowper, William on hope
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"Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope."

Ciardi, John on hope
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"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on hope
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"My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return."

Angelou, Maya on hope
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"You may build castles in the air, and fume, and fret, and grow thin and lean, and pale and ugly, if you please. But I tell you, no man worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or will be so."

Vanbrugh, Sir John on infidelity
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"A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love."

Proust, Marcel on infidelity   

"Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts and his higher nature -- and another woman to help him forget them."

Rowland, Helen on infidelity
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