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“The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.”

“Look at a stone cutter 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 the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.”

“The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.”

“Each Warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his signature, on important acts he touches. This is not the voice of ego but of the human spirit, rising up and declaring that it has something to contribute to the solution of the hardest problems, no matter how vexing!”

“If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.”

“Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.”

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”

“The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.”

“If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

“A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.”

“Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.”

“Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.”

“Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.”

“Great things are done when men and mountains meet.”

“Each generation has to stand up for democracy. It can't take anything for granted and may have to fight fundamental battles anew.”

“It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.”

“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.”

“Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.”

“Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.”

“I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.”

“You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.”

“There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.”