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The perfection preached in the Gospels never yet built up an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be forgiven him, indeed, they will be regarded as high qualities, if he can make of them the means to achieve great ends.

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Trifles go to make perfection,
And perfection is no trifle.

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Plodding wins the race.

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Every man who observes vigilantly, and resolves steadfastly, grows unconsciously into genius.

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The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

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If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, "Here comes number seventy-one!"

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The man who gives up accomplishes nothing and is only a hindrance. The man who does not give up can move mountains.

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How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success?

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The falling drops at last will wear the stone.

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Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.

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