"It`s hard to beat a person who never gives up."
— Babe Ruth
"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."
— Thomas Edison
"Difficulties mastered are opportunities won."
— Sir Winston Churchill
"When you achieve one dream, dream another."
— Daniel "Rudy" Ruettiger
"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common that unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination are omnipotent."
- Calvin Coolidge
Wishing will not bring riches, but desiring riches with a state of mind that becomes an obsession, then planning definite ways and means to acquire riches, and backing those plans with persistence, which does not recognize failure, will bring riches.-
-Napoleon Hill "Think and Grow Rich"
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
- T.S.Eliot
I`d rather fail while attempting something great than succeed at mediocrity.
- Yours Truly
"The credit belongs to the man in the arena, whose face is marred by dust, sweat, and blood. Who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotion. Who spends himself in a worthy cause who at best in the end knows the triump of high achievement and if he fails, fails while daring greatly so that his place will never be with those cold and timid souls that know neither victory nor defeat."
- John F. Kenney
"You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them."
— Michael Jordan
“The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.”
- Alan Ashley-Pitt
"Business is like (riding) a bicycle. Either you keep moving or you fall down."
- Frank Lloyd Wright
"Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell and advertise."
- Ted Turner
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ElidS2006-12-8 11:40:27