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"It seems to me we can never give up longing And wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, And we must hunger after them."	George Eliot
"Our determination to imitiate Christ should be such that we have no time for other matters."	Deciderius Erasmus
"I'm hard-nosed about luck. I think it sucks. Yeah, if you spend seven years looking for a job as a copywriter, and then one day somebody gives you a job, you can say, Gee, I was lucky I happened to go up there today. But, dammit, I was going to go up there sooner or later in the next seventy years. If you're persistent in trying and doing and working, you almost make your own fortune."	Jerry Della Femina
"Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over."	F(rancis) Scott
"Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over."	F(rancis) Scott
"Energy and persistence conquer all thing."	Benjamin Franklin
"To err is human, to repent divine, to persist devilish."	Benjamin Franklin
"An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men."	Dr. Thomas Fuller
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."	Robert Anson Heinlein
"Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success."	Napolean Hill
"Never give up on anybody."	Hubert H. Humphrey
"If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance."	Dr. Samuel Johnson
"Although rumors persist to the contrary, there were no deaths while making the movie Ben Hur."	Deane Jordan
"Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory."	Herbert Kaufman
"The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistant, persuasive and unrealistic."	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in determination."	Tommy Lasorda
"A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done."	Vincent Thomas "Vince" Lombardi
"The pride of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand."	Vincent Thomas "Vince" Lombardi
"I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult.... I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking."	Og Mandino
"Never give up. If you want to be something, be conceited about it, give yourself a chance. Never say you are not good, that will never get you anywhere. Set goals, That's what life is made of."	Mike McLaren
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Albert Einstein	Anthony J. D'Angelo	Benjamin Franklin
Carl Lotus Becker	Charles Dickens	Deane Jordan
Deciderius Erasmus	Dr. David M. Burns	Dr. Joyce
Dr. Samuel Johnson	Dr. Thomas Fuller	Edward Eggleston
F(rancis) Scott	George Eliot	George S. Clason
Hannah Arendt	Henri-Frédéric Amiel	Herbert Kaufman
Hoshang N. Akhtar	Hubert H. Humphrey	Jerry Della Femina
John Christian Bovee	John Fitzgerald Kennedy	Juliene Berk
Marabel Morgan	Mike McLaren	Napolean Hill
Og Mandino	Richard M. Devos	Robert Anson Heinlein
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette	Sir Thomas Bowell Buxton	Stephen R. Covey
Tommy Lasorda	Vincent Thomas "Vince" Lombardi	(John) Calvin Coolidge