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 | "Advantage comes not from the spectacular or the technical. Advantage
comes from a persistent seeking of the mundane edge." | |
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Thomas J. "Tom" Peters
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| "And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall
reap, if we faint not. As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good
unto all men," | |
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The Bible
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| "And many strokes, though with a little axe, Hew down and fell the
hardest-timbered oak." | |
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William Shakespeare
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| "By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation." | |
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Edmund Burke
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| "Few things are impossible to diligence and skill." | |
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Samuel Johnson
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| "He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he
that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again." | |
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James Ray
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| "If you wish to drown, do not torture yourself with shallow
water." | |
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Proverb
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| "In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream
always wins ? not through strength but by perseverance." | |
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J. Jackson Frown
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| "It is not best to swap horses while crossing the river." | |
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Abraham Lincoln
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| "It matters if you just don"t give up." | |
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Stephen William Hawking
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| "No rock so hard but a little wave may beat admission in A thousand
years." | |
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Lord Alfred Tennyson
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| "Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far
one can go." | |
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Thomas Stearns Eliot
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| "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." | |
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Plutarch
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| "Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after
another." | |
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Walter Elliott
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| "Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied
by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a
concussion in the head than a hole in the wall." | |
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Sydney J. Harris
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| "Stopping at third base adds no more runs than striking out." | |
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Unknown
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| "TENACITY, n. A certain quality of the human hand in its relation to
the coin of the realm. It attains its highest development in the hand of
authority and is considered a serviceable equipment for a career in
politics." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat
nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand." | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "The more one gardens, the more one learns; And the more one learns,
the more one realizes how little one knows." | |
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Vita Sackville-West
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| "Victory belongs to the most persevering." | |
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Napoléon Bonaparte
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| "We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us." | |
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Christian Nestell Bovée
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| "We will either find a way or make one." | |
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Hannibal
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| "When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on." | |
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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