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“You don't cry when someone pushes you down. You get up. You get up and you fight back. And pretty soon nobody's going to shove you anymore because they'll see it's not worth it.”
“Having contentment and gratitude in the present moment is the surest way to achieve success.”
“Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who...”
“God can deliver you so well that some people wont believe your testimony.”
“Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.”
“To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
“Once a musician has enough ability to get into a top music school, the thing that distinguishes one performer from another is how hard he or she works. That's it. And what's more, the people at the...”
“The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, who strive valiantly; who know the great enthusiasums, the great devotions, and spend themselves in a worthy cause; who at best know the t...”
“A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”
“Age was respected among his people, but achievement was revered. As the elders said, if a child washed his hands he could eat with kings.”
“The freedom to do your best means nothing unless you are willing to do your best.”
“Those who succeed in an outstanding way seldom do so before the age of 40. More often, they do not strike their real pace until they are well beyond the age of 50.”
“You are the greatest achievement of your own life.”
“Only the impossible is worth doing.”
“You are an instrument of God. Don't leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. Why settle for 'Three Blind Mice' when you can can play the ...”
“People pretend not to like grapes when the vines are too high for them to reach.”
“But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for you. Mediocrity's a hairball coughed up on the Persian carpet of Creation.”
“For almost a generation, psychologists around the world have been engaged in a spirited debate over a question that most of us would consider to have been settled years ago. The question is this: i...”
“She could not descend to an existence where her brain would explode under the pressure of forcing itself not to outdistance incompetence. She could not function to the rule of: Pipe down-keep down-...”
“Achievement seems to be connectedwith action. Successful men andwomen keep moving. They makemistakes, but they don't quit.”
