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W.E.B. Du Bois

Undertake something that is difficult; it will do you good.
Unless you try to do something beyond
what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

Ronald E. Osborn

A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with the green
majesty of a forest.  I too will set my face to the wind
and throw my handful of seed on high.

Fiona MacLeod

Katherine Mansfield

To reach the port of heaven we must sail, sometimes with the wind
and sometimes against it--but we must sail, not drift or lie at anchor.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

This shall be my parting word:  Know what you want to do--then do it.
Make straight for your goal and go undefeated in spirit to the end.

Ernestine Schumann-Heink

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

African proverb

The little troubles and worries of life, so many of which we meet,
may be as stumbling blocks in our way, or we may make them
stepping-stones to a noble character and to Heaven.
Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.

Henry Ward Beecher

I won't have any money to leave behind.
I won't have the fine and luxurious things of life to leave behind. 
But I just want to leave a committed life behind.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.  There is no defeat
except from within, no really insurmountable barrier
save our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Elbert Hubbard

As the sculptor devotes him or herself to wood and stone,
I would devote myself to my soul.

Toyohiko Kagawa

The rung of the ladder was never meant to rest upon,
but only to hold a our foot long enough to enable us
to put the other somewhat higher.

Thomas Henry Huxley

The difficult we do immediately;
the impossible takes a little longer.

Air Force motto

We must accept responsibility for a problem before we can solve it.
We cannot solve a problem by saying "It's not my problem," and hoping
that someone else will solve it for us.  We can solve a problem only when
we say "This is my problem and it's up to me to solve it."

M. Scott Peck

When things go wrong as they sometimes will,
When the road you're trudging seems all uphill,
When the funds are low, and the debts are high,
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit--
Rest if you must, but don't you quit.
Success is failure turned inside out,
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt;
And you never can tell how close you are,
It may be near when it seems afar.
So, stick to the fight when you're hardest hit--
It's when things go wrong that you mustn't quit.

Anon

If you don't make a total commitment to whatever you're doing,
then you start looking to bail out the first time the boat starts leaking.
It's tough enough getting that boat to shore with everybody rowing,
let alone when a person stands up and starts putting his or her life jacket on.

Lou Holtz

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Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character,
and one of the best instruments for success.
Without it, genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.

Lord Chesterfield

The line between failure and success is so fine that we . . . are often
on the line and do not know it.  How many a person has thrown up
his or her hands at a time when a little more effort,
a little more patience, would have achieved success.
A little more persistence, a little more effort,
and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

Elbert Hubbard

Tommy Lasorda