Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be common, nor the common heroic."
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Orison Sweet Marden
"It is the man who goes straight to his goal, obstacle or no obstacle, that commands our respect, gets our confidence, and gets to the front. He is the man who is sought in an emergency, not the man who is afraid of obstacles, who magnifies difficulties."
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William C. Durant
"Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it."
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Louisa May Alcott
"Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see the beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead."
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Sextus Propertius
"Great is the road I climb, but the garland offered by an easier effort is not worth the gathering."
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William Shakespeare
"If we should fail -- we fail. But screw your courage to the sticking-place, And we'll not fail.
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Edmund Vance Cooke
"You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face. It's nothing against you to fall down flat, but to lie there, that's disgrace."
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