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Carolyn Smagalski
Persistence
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"There is no education like adversity." -- Benjamin Disraeli
"Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?" -- Marian
Wright Edelman
"Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is
to the one who endures that the final victory comes." --
Buddha
"All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of
adding a second, a third, and perhaps a forth step in a
continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With
every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your
first." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which
difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish." -- John Quincy
Adams
"Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you
will go about achieving it and staying with that plan." -- Tom
Landry
"Champions keep playing until they get it right." -- Billie
Jean King
"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one
after another." -- Walter Elliott
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." -- Dale Carnegie
"I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost
more than 300 games. Twenty-six times I've been trusted to
take the game-winning shot and missed. I've failed over and
over and over again in my life. . . . And that is why I
succeed." -- Michael Jordan
"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out
how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could
have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is
actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat
and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short
again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great
devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best
knows achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least
fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be
with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor
defeat." -- Theodore Roosevelt
"The difficult is that which can be done immediately, the
impossible is that which takes a little longer." -- George
Santayana
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