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Most men fail, not through lack of education or agreeable personal qualities, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will.
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No one will insist upon your rights while you yourself doubt that you have any.
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Great tenacity of purpose is the only thing that will carry you over the hard places which appear in every career to ultimate triumph.
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Success is jealous of scattered energies.
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It is continuity of purpose alone that achieves results.
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Scarcely anything seems impossible to the man who can will strongly enough and long enough.
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The athlete trains for his race; and the mind must be put into training if one will win life's race.
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To stick to a thing till you are master, is a test of intellectual discipline and power.
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Great men never wait for opportunities; they make them.
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No tyranny of circumstances can permanently imprison a determined will.
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Every person who amounts to anything feels within himself a power which is ever pushing him on and urging him to perpetual improvement.
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It is the hopeful, buoyant, cheerful attitude of mind that wins.
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Success is the child of two very plain parents--punctuality and accuracy.