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“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”

“Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us.”

“Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.”

“With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I'm going to press on for equality. I'm going to press on for the sake of our children. I'm going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I am going to press on.”

“We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.”

“Chance favors the prepared mind.”

“Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.”

“Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.”

“What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.”

“Action is the foundational key to all success.”

“You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.”

“Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.”

“If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.”

“Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.”

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

“If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”

“The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.”

“Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.”

“When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.”

“In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance.”

“Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them we can also come to appreciate the uselessness of anger. Instead of getting angry nurture a deep caring and respect for troublemakers because by creating such trying circumstances they provide us with invaluable opportunities to practice tolerance and patience.”