Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air. These qualities have ever been displayed in their mightiest perfection, as attendants in the retinue of strong passions.
– John Quincy Adams, at Plymouth, 1802
Accidental sex. He made it sound like I fell down, and there just happened to be an erection in the way.
– Laurell K. Hamilton
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Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.
– Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
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Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.
– Walter Elliott, in The Spiritual Life : Doctrine and Practice of Christian Perfection (1918).
Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.
– Mae West
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Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
– Winston Churchill
They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. In their gray visions they obtain glimpses of eternity, and thrill, in awakening, to find that they have been upon the verge of the great secret.
– Egdar Allen Poe, Eleonora, 1850