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Courage is doing what scares you and perseverance is doing what bores you.
All too often, tedium is more formidable than terror, and it is the little things that wear people out rather than the big things that scare them off. It takes stubbornness to persist when early successes slow to a crawl and changes become gradual or setbacks are suffered.
When we confront real problems, we have a choice either to despair at the difficulty or be glad for the opportunities to make the world better. Without awareness of what is really going on, warts and all, we have no ability to improve things.
Sometimes you must be steadfast in pursuing your goal even when it seems impossible.
EMPOWER THYSELF
SELF MASTERY
“When the fight begins within himself, a man’s worth something.”
—Robert Browning, Bishop Blougram’s Apology, 1855
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"Never give up. Never give up. Never ever give up. Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never, in nothing, great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense."
—Winston Churchill
“Energy and persistence conquer all things.”
—Benjamin Franklin
“I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.”
—Tom Hopkins
“Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.”
—Thomas A. Edison
“Little strokes fell great oaks.”
—Benjamin Franklin
“Plan your progress carefully; hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power.”
—Paul J. Meyer
“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.”
—George Bernard Shaw
“No trial has come to you but what is human. God is faithful and will not let you be tried beyond your strength; but with the trial He will also provide a way out, so that you may be able to bear it.”
—1 Corinthians 10-13
“It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.”
—Eric Hoffer
“I never knew about winning from beginning to end, but only about not being behind in a situation.”
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