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One thing we learned. To make a start and keep plugging. When I had fights at school the little while I went I just bowed my neck and kept swinging until something hit the dirt. Sometimes it was me but I always got up.

It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time.

I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.

Make haste slowly.

You go back to the gym and you just do it again and again until you get it right.

Never admit defeat!

Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist but in the ability to start over.

Our greatest glory consists not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.

If I don't get off the mat I'll lose the fight.

Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.

We must endure what fortune sends.

Think of a fine painter attempting to capture an inner vision beginning with one corner of the canvas painting what he thinks should be there not quite pulling it off covering it over with white paint and trying again each time finding out what his painting isn't until he finally finds out what it is. And when you finally do find out what one corner of your vision is you're off and running.

When you get to the end of your rope tie a knot and hang on.

If you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain.

Live with no time out.

Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task but you will succeed if you persevere and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.

Don't leave before the miracle happens!

If I had refused to institute a negotiation or had not persevered in it I would have been degraded in my own estimation as a man of honor.