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"Don't listen to anyone who tells you that you can't do this or that. That's nonsense. Make up your mind, you'll never use crutches or a stick, then have a go at everything. Go to school, join in all the games you can. Go anywhere you want to. But never, never let them persuade you that things are too difficult or impossible."

Sir Douglas Bader was a British fighter pilot who lost both legs in a flying accident, but still fought in World War Two. He was knighted for his work with the disabled, and the quote above is from his talk to a 14-year-old boy who had lost a leg in a car accident.

- Sir Douglas Bader (1910 - 1982)
British Aviator

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"Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory."

- Norman Vincent Peale
(1898-1993) American Methodist Minister

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"No obstacles fell in his way that seemed to him insurmountable. He might be defeated, as he sometimes was, but he shrank from no hardship through impatience, he fled from no danger through cowardice."

- J. P. Morgan writing about Napoleon Bonaparte

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"It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test."

- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher

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"Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes."

- Victor Hugo
(1802-1885) French Writer

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"When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take - choose the bolder."

- W.J. Slim (1891 - 1970 )
British military commander

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"I praise loudly; I blame softly."

- Catherine the Second (1729 - 1796)
Russian Empress

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"The four cornerstones of character on which this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence."

- Eddie Rickenbacker (1890 - 1973)
American Aviator and Business Executive

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"It is never too late to be what you might have been."

- George Eliot
(1819-1880) English Novelist

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"No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness."

- Phillips Brooks
(1835-1893) American Bishop

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