“Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you.”

- Walt Whitman

“It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.”

- Edmund Hillary

"Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.”

- George Halas 

“Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.”

- Napoleon Hill

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"DO, or do not! There is no try."

“Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.”

- Plutarch

“The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim."

- Nora Ephron

"Victory belongs to the most persevering."

- Napoleon Bonaparte

"Doubt whom you will, but never yourself."

- Christian Nestell Bovee

"Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great."

- John D. Rockefeller

"The most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.”

- Reggie Jackson

"Determination that just won't quit -- that's what it takes."

- A. J. Foyt

“By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.”

- Christopher Columbus

“It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.”

- Lena Horne

"Actions are the seed of fate, deeds grow into destiny."

- Harry Truman

"A minute's success pays the failure of years."

- Robert Browning

"The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win."

- Roger Bannister

"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."

- Napoleon Bonaparte

“Never mistake motion for action.”

- Ernest Hemingway

"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it."

- Margaret Thatcher

"Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way."

~ Booker T. Washington

"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going."

~ Jim Ryun

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