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“Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.”

“Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.”

“Every setback means you're one step closer to seeing the dream come to pass.”

“The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.”

“What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.”

“'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.”

“I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.”

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

“When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.”

“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.”

“Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.”

“A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.”

“Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.”

“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”

“A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.”

“So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.”

“Nowadays people talk about PayPal's founders as prescient geniuses who would inevitably change the world. It was, however, not so obvious that PayPal would taste its first major success by helping people sell Beanie Babies on eBay. But they had a vision, a hope, and the perseverance to try multiple iterations until they got it right.”

“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.”

“I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.”

“It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.”

“Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.”

“Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.”

“You just can't beat the person who never gives up.”

“Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.”

“Problems are guidelines, not stop signs!”

“People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.”

“The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.”

“Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.”

“A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.”