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Suddenly I heard Virginia’s voice calling to me from the sitting room window: “Hitler is making a speech.” I shouted back, “I shan’t come. I’m planting iris and they will be flowering long after he is dead.Leonard Woolf
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If I quit now, I will soon be back to where I started. And when I started I was desperately wishing to be where I am now.Anonymous
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The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Follow your dreams. I am not saying it’s going to be easy, but I am saying it’s going to be worth it. — Moffat MachinguraMoffat Machingura
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Only when we face the impossible, and experience the unbearable, do we find out who we truly are.Vironika Tugaleva
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You can chase a bird from your porch, but you can not take away its ability to fly.Dr. Myles Munroe
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...marriage is about becoming a team. You're going to spend the rest of your life learning about each other, and every now and then, things blow up. But the beauty of marriage is that if you picked the right person and you both love each other, you'll always figure out a way to get through itNicholas Sparks
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Persevere like a seed; even when people try to bury you, flourish.Matshona Dhliwayo
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When you find yourself in the thickness of pursuing a goal or dream, stop only to rest. Momentum builds success.Suzy Kassem
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Surviving is good, but overcoming is better.Shelley Hendrix
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The messengers of Jesus will be hated to the end of time. They will be blamed for all the division which rend cities and homes. Jesus and his disciples will be condemned on all sides for undermining family life, and for leading the nation astray; they will be called crazy fanatics and disturbers of the peace. The disciples will be sorely tempted to desert their Lord. But the end is also near, and they must hold on and persevere until it comes. Only he will be blessed who remains loyal to Jesus and his word until the end.Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Don't give up. I know you've made a thousand attempts to reach your goal, but look at it this way: after repeatedly banging your head against the wall, you ought to be numb enough break through this time.Richelle E. Goodrich
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Her stare was direct and unwavering, full of confidence earned from painful experience...Dean Koontz
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Eldora smiled up at Paulo cunningly, her dark eyes twinkling. “You are old, Father.”“Not as old as I shall be, before I have finished with the universe.MaryJean Harris
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He knew that she took life as it came, opposed her tough-fibered mind to whatever obstacles there might be, fought on with a determination that would not recognize defeat, and kept on fighting even when she saw defeat was inevitable.Margaret Mitchell
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Perseverance and audacity generally win.Unknown
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Why am I impatient I am unsure for what is patience? And why should I ultimately feel that I am lacking in it. Is it timing? Waiting? Abstaining? Obligation? Longing? Torture? Perseverance? Discipline? Wanting? Someone recently referred to it as a staring contest between yourself, fate, god and chance. He also referred to it as a tease, a flirt. It's staring at her image when you want to hear her voice, feel her breath, taste her skin. Patience is the recovery from a really hot dream interrupted by the damn alarm clock. Patience is a hard cock with bound hands.LEONORA MORRISON
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Though I cannot entirely agree with you in supposing that extreme study has been the cause of my late indisposition, I must yet confess that the hill of science, like that of virtue, is in some instances climbed with labour. But when we get a little way up, the lovely prospects which open the eye make infinite amends for the steepness of the ascent. In short, I am wedded to these pursuits, as a man stipulates to take his wife; viz., for better, for worse, until death us do part. My thirst for knowledge is literally inextinguishable. And if I thus drink myself into a superior world, I cannot help it.Augustus Toplady
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Within the beautiful struggle of a cocoon all butterflies are made.Jason Versey
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Patient is a persistent act.Lailah Gifty Akita
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We have begun a fight that it may be will take many a generation to complete...but you know that men are not put into this world to go the path of ease; they are put into this world to go the path of pain and struggle... We have given our lives to the enterprise, and that is richer and the moral is greater.Woodrow Wilson
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Life is a fight from the minute you take your first breath to the moment you exhale your last. You have to fight the people who say it can never be done. You have to fight the institutions that put up the glass ceilings that must be shattered. You have to fight your body when it tells you it is tired. You have to fight your mind when doubt begins to creep in. You have to fight systems that are put in place to disrupt you and obstacles that are put in place to discourage you. You have to fight because you can't count on anyone else fighting for you. And you have to fight for people who can't fight for themselves. To get anything of real value, you have to fight for it.Ronda Rousey