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«What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning - and some of them many times over - what do you find? That you can swim? Well - life is just the same as learning to swim! Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!»
«Some guys they just give up living, others start dying little by little piece by piece, some guys come home from work and wash up, and go racing in the streets.»
Author: Bruce Springsteen
(Singer, Song Writer)
| About:
Dedication,
Desire,
Devotion,
Dreams,
Heart,
Persistence,
Work
«The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.»
Author: James Whitcomb Riley
| About:
Persistence
| Keywords:
dampen, dampened, dampens, discouragement, factor, inevitably, persistence
«So as sure as the sun will shine,.I'm gonna get my share now of what's mineAnd then the harder they come the harder they'll fall, one and all.»
«Never give up.»
«When life knocks you down you have two choices- stay down or get up.»
«Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragement, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| About:
Determination,
Perseverance,
Persistence,
Soul
| Keywords:
discouragement, distinguishes, impossibilities, Obstacles, permanence, perseverance, persistence, spite
«No great achievement is possible without persistent work.»
«This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Freedom,
Life,
Motivational,
Persistence,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
anew, conquer, each day, earned, highest
«Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.»
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