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It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
Keep going, keep going come what may. But what is your final goal, you may ask. That goal will become clearer, will emerge slowly but surely, much as the draft turns into the sketch and the sketch into the painting through the serious work done on it, through the elaboration of the original vague idea and through the consolidation of the first fleeting and passing thought.
VINCENT VAN GOGH, letter to Theo van Gogh, Jul. 1880
Little strokes fell great oaks.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Poor Richard's Almanac
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
NELSON MANDELA, Autobiography
It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end… because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing… this shadow. Even darkness must pass.
SAM, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
- Diamonds are only chunks of coal,
- That stuck to their jobs, you see.
MINNIE RICHARD SMITH, "Stick to Your Job"
After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
NELSON MANDELA, Long Walk to Freedom
Days when you just don't have it, you don't mail it in, you don't pack it in, you give it everything you've got. You grind it out, I don't care what kind of game you have, you somehow try and find a way to get it done ... That's part of my attitude and belief, that you should always have the switch on. You can't turn it on and off.
TIGER WOODS, interview, Feb. 23, 2006
Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it's not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. it's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.
BARACK OBAMA, speech, Jul. 12, 2006
The game's isn't over until it's over.
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