"At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face."

Camus, Albert on absurdity
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"We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes, and our ravages. But our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to fight them in ourselves and in others."

Camus, Albert on fallibility
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"But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead."

Camus, Albert on happiness
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"Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question."

Camus, Albert on charm
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"Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves."

Churchill, Winston on perseverance
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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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"You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round."

Corbett, James J. on perseverance
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"If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, Here comes number seventy-one!"

DeVos, Richard M. on perseverance
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"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."

Einstein, Albert on perseverance
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"Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure."

Eggleston, Edward on perseverance
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"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."

Edison, Thomas A. on perseverance
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"Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never, never -- in nothing great or small, large or petty. Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense."

Churchill, Winston 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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"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all."

Carnegie, Dale on perseverance
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"Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak."

Carlyle, Thomas on perseverance
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"With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable."

Buxton, Sir Thomas Fowell on perseverance
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"By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation."

Burke, Edmund on perseverance   

"A jug fills drop by drop."

Buddha on perseverance
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"Never give up. Keep your thoughts and your mind always on the goal."

Bradley, Tom on perseverance
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"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."

Edison, Thomas A. on perseverance
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"Nearly every man who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. that's not the place to become discouraged."

Edison, Thomas A. on perseverance
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"I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right."

Einstein, Albert 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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"Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance."

Johnson, Samuel on perseverance
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"You've got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it. It's called perseverance."

Iacocca, Lee on perseverance   

"Success... seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit."

Hilton, Conrad on perseverance
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"What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement."

Hill, Napoleon on perseverance
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"Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel."

Hill, Napoleon on perseverance
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"Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do."

Hill, Napoleon on perseverance
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"Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before."

Herodotus 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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"If you've got the guts to stick it out... you're going to make it."

Hays, Brian on perseverance
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"By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on perseverance
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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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"History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats."

Forbes, B. C. on perseverance
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"To be somebody you must last."

Gordon, Ruth on perseverance   

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

Hays, Brian on perseverance
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"The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory."

Engstrom, Ted W. on perseverance   

"I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have ? life itself."

Anderson, Walter on responsibility
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"Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper and loss of self control. Yield larger things to which you can show no more than equal right; and yield lesser ones, though clearly your own. Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite."

Lincoln, Abraham on quarrels
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