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“Have a fierce resolve in everything you do.” “Demonstrate determination, resiliency, and tenacity.” “Do not let temporary setbacks become permanent excuses.” And, finally, “Use mistakes and problems as opportunities to get better—not reasons to quit.”
― Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
― Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
“You have the power within you to endure anything, for your mere opinion can render it tolerable, perhaps even acceptable, by regarding it as an opportunity for enlightenment or a matter of duty.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“Thing Rule: You can quit. But you can’t quit until the season is over, the tuition payment is up, or some other “natural” stopping point has arrived. You must, at least for the interval to which you’ve committed yourself, finish whatever you begin. In”
― Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
― Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
“One form of perseverance is the daily discipline of trying to do things better than we did yesterday. So,”
― Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
― Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
“the future is a concept—it doesn’t exist There is no such thing as tomorrow There never will be because time is always now. That’s one of the things we discover when we stop talking to ourselves and stop thinking. We find there is only present, only an eternal now.”
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