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"Determine that a thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way."

- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
16th President of the United States

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"I want to remind you that success in life is based on hard slogging. There will be periods when discouragement is great and upsetting, and the antidote for this is calmness and fortitude and a modest yet firm belief in your competence. Be sure that your priorities are in order so that you can proceed in a logical manner, and be ever mindful that nothing will take the place of persistence."

- Walter Annenberg (1908 - 2002 )
an American businessman, investor, philanthropist, and diplomat.

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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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"It teaches the strong to know when they are weak and the brave to face themselves when they are afraid. To be proud and unbowed in defeat yet humble and gentle in victory. And to master ourselves before we attempt to master others. And to learn to laugh, yet never forget how to weep. And to give the predominance of courage over timidity."

- General Douglas MacArthur, On the virtues of competitive athletics (1880 - 1964)
American five-star general and field marshal

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If you never heal from what hurt you,you will bleed on people who didn’t cut you.

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"Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun."

- Mary Lou Cook (1918 - 2008)
American educator

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"Great is the road I climb, but the garland offered by an easier effort is not worth the gathering."

- Sextus Propertius (50BC - 16AD)
Roman Poet

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"Life is no brief candle to me. It is sort of a splendid torch which I have got hold of for a moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations."

- George Bernard Shaw
(1856-1950) Irish Playwright

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"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome."

- Charlotte Bronte (1816 - 1855)
English novelist and poet

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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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