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    Randy Pausch
    “The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.”
    ― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
    tags: barriers, challenges, failure, failures, inspirational, perseverance
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: best, forlorn-hope, perseverance, resolve
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    Thomas A. Edison
    “Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
    ― Thomas A. Edison
    tags: inspirational, perseverance, tenacity
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    Maya Angelou
    “You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: adversity, character, failure, perseverance
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    Mary Anne Radmacher
    “Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow.”
    ― Mary Anne Radmacher
    tags: courage, perseverance, tenacity
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    “Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.”
    ― Charles Jones, Life Is Tremendous: Enthusiasm Makes the Difference!
    tags: perseverance
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: inspirational, perseverance, success
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    H.G. Wells
    “If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.”
    ― H.G. Wells
    tags: failure, perseverance, tenacity
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    Seneca
    “Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”
    ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca
    tags: perseverance, suicide, survival
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    Dale Carnegie
    “Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”
    ― Dale Carnegie
    tags: perseverance
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    Andy Warhol
    “It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.”
    ― Andy Warhol
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don't have the strength.”
    ― Teddy Roosevelt
    tags: courage, perseverance, tenacity
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    Dean Koontz
    “Life, Stormy says, is not about how fast you run or even with what degree of grace. It's about perseverance, about staying on your feet and slogging forward no matter what.”
    ― Dean Koontz
    tags: perseverance
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    Sarah Kay
    “I have seen the best of you, and the worst of you, and I choose both.”
    ― Sarah Kay
    tags: best, choice, love, worst, you
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    Sarah Kay
    “You can only fit so many words in a postcard, only so many in a phone call, only so many into space before you forget that words are sometimes used for things other than filling emptiness.”
    ― Sarah Kay
    tags: emptiness, words
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    Sarah Kay
    “Life will hit you hard in the face, wait for you to get back up just so it can kick you in the stomach. But getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.”
    ― Sarah Kay
    tags: inspirational, life
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    Sarah Kay
    “Because there’s nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it’s sent away.”
    ― Sarah Kay
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
    tags: future, life, past, reflection, understanding
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    Yvonne Woon
    “Sometimes, you have to look back in order to understand the things that lie ahead.”
    ― Yvonne Woon, Dead Beautiful
    tags: introspection, reflection
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    Elizabeth George
    “The past can't be changed, can it? It can just be forgiven.”
    ― Elizabeth George
    tags: reflection
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    Stephen King
    “No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side.

    Or you don't.”
    ― Stephen King, The Stand
    tags: change, survival
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    Jim Butcher
    “Fear is a part of life. It's a warning mechanism. That's all. It tells you when there's danger around. Its job is to help you survive. Not cripple you into being unable to do it.”
    ― Jim Butcher, Dead Beat
    tags: fear, harry-dresden, survival
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    Carrie Ryan
    “Survivors aren't always the strongest; sometimes they're the smartest, but more often simply the luckiest.”
    ― Carrie Ryan, The Dark and Hollow Places
    tags: survival, survival-of-the-fittest
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    Lance Armstrong
    “Knowledge is power, community is strength and positive attitude is everything”
    ― Lance Armstrong
    tags: survival
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    Leon C. Megginson
    “It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change.”
    ― Leon C. Megginson
    tags: adaptability, evolution, misattributed-to-darwin, survival, survival-of-the-fittest
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    Anne Frank
    “The weak fall, but the strong will remain and never go under!”
    ― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
    tags: anne-frank, strong, survival, weak
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    Michael Scott
    “The strong survive, but the courageous triumph.”
    ― Michael Scott, The Warlock
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    Robertson Davies
    “Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.”
    ― Robertson Davies
    tags: adversity, survival
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    Toba Beta
    “Survival justifies any means.”
    ― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
    tags: any-means, justification, survival
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  • #30
    “Some trees are too deeply rooted to move … And if they are uprooted, they will die…”
    ― Jocelyn Murray, The Gilded Mirror: Constantinople
    tags: endurance, perseverance, roots, survival
    11 likes



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