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"Victory belongs to the most persevering."	Napolean Bonaparte
"I used to envy kids who had an old-fashioned Grandpa. Not any more. I've got a new ambition. Now I just want to become a modern-type Grandpa myself-and really start living."	Hal
"The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing -- where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger, which he knows that he was meant and made to do."	Phillips Brooks
"In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins--not through strength but by perseverance."	H. Jackson Brown
"Ambition can creep as well as soar."	Edmund Burke
"Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top."	Robert Burton
"Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment."	Eric Butterworth
"Yes, Love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire With angels shared, by Allah given To lift from earth our low desire."	George Gordon Byron
"He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist."	Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
"Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die."	Gilbert Keith Chesterton
"No plain not followed by a slope. No going not followed by a return. He who remains persevering in danger is without blame. Do not complain about this truth; Enjoy the good fortune you still possess."	I Ching
"Perseverance alone does not assure success. No amount of stalking will lead to game in a field that has none."	I Ching
"Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions."	I Ching
"Wealth and rank are what people desire, but unless they be obtained in the right way they may not be possessed."	Confucius
"An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success."	M. Shawn Covey
"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained."	Marie Curie
"What men desire is a virgin who is a whore."	Edward Dahlberg
"One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater."	Marquis de Sade
"At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths-your abilities and your failings."	Gérard Depardieu
"Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so well supplied with it, that even those most difficult to please in all other matters never desire more of it than they already possess."	Rene Descartes
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Alexander Graham Bell	André Maurois	Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Aristotle	Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli	Bhagavad Gita
Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba	Buonarroti Michelangelo	Charles Krauthammer
Charlie McCarthy	Claude Adrien Helvetius	Confucius
Daniel Patrick Moynihan	David Guterson	David Havard
Dean Koontz	Dr. Samuel Johnson	Edmund Burke
Edward Dahlberg	Epictetus	Eric Butterworth
Eric Hoffer	Euripides	George Gordon Byron
Gilbert Keith Chesterton	Gérard Depardieu	Hal
Helen Adams Keller	Helen Merrell Lynd	Henrik Ibsen
Herbert Kaufman	Honoré de Balzac	Horace Mann
H(elena) P(etrovna) Hahn Blavatsky	H. Jackson Brown	Ilie Nastase
I Ching	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]	Jan Ashford
Jean de La Fontaine	Jeb Stuart Magruder	Jiddu Krishnamurti
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	John Keats	Juvenal
Kahlil Gibran	Maria Montessori	Marie Curie
Marquis de Sade	Maya Angelou	Michael Korda
Michio Kushi	Mike Newlin	M. Shawn Covey
Napolean Bonaparte	Napolean Hill	Niccolo Machiavelli
Orison Swett Marden	Pearl Bailey	Phillips Brooks
Ralph Waldo Emerson	Rene Descartes	Robert Burton
Robert F. Bennett	Robert Joseph "Bob" Dole	Robert Lee Frost
Saint Augustine	Shakti Gawain	Sigmund Freud
Sir Francis Bacon	Sir John Lubbock	Smiley Blanton
Sophia Loren	Ted W. Engstrom	Terry Josephson
Tibetan Doctrine	Walter Elliott	Walter Savage Landor
William Blake	William Hazlitt	William Adams
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