"When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it - but all that had gone before." Jacob Riis
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"The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win." Roger Bannister
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"Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity." Lou Holz
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"Having chosen our course, without guile and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear and with manly hearts." Abraham Lincoln
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"Nothing focuses the mind better than the constant sight of a competitor who wants to wipe you off the map." Wayne Calloway
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In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." Albert Einstein
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"The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions." James Garfield
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"Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose." Benjamin Disraeli
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"Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory." Mahatma Gandhi
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"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn." Harriet Beecher Stowe