Effort
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"Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing. You don't
win once in a while; you don't do things right once in a while; you do
them right all the time. Winning is
a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
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"He failed in business in '31. He was defeated for state legislator
in '32. He tried another business in '33. It failed.
His fiancee died in '35. He had a nervous breakdown in '36. In '43
he ran for congress and was defeated. He tried again in '48 and was defeated
again. He tried running for the Senate in '55. He lost.
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"Never let defeat have the last word."
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"Every morning in Africa,
a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion
or it will be killed...every morning a lion wakes up.
It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death.
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"Accept the challenges...so that you can feel the exhilaration
of victory."
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"The power to shape the future is earned through persistence. No
other quality
is as essential to success. It is the sandpaper that breaks down all
resistance and sweeps away all obstacles.
It is the ability to move mountains
one grain of sand at a time."
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"Some people dream of worthy accomplishments, while others stay
awake and do them."
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"Running is a road to self-awareness and reliance … you can push
yourself to extremes and learn the harsh reality of your physical and mental
limitations or coast quietly down a solitary path watching the earth spin
beneath your feet. But when you are through, exhilarated and exhausted,
at least for a moment everything seems right with the world."
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"On the road to success,
you can be sure of one thing...there is never a crowd on the extra
mile."
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"Sometimes there is no next time,
no second chance, no time out, sometimes...it's now or never."
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"To be a winner, all you need to give
is all you have."
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"You're either in or you're out.
There's no such thing as life in between."
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"Without the wind's resistance,
an eagle would never fly."
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"In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream
always wins...not through strength, but through persistence."
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"Now that we've exhausted
all possibilities...let's get started"
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