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The champ may have lost his stuff temporarily or permanently he can't be sure. When he can no longer throw his high hard one he throws his heart instead. He throws something. He just doesn't walk off the mound and weep.

When nothing seems to help I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two and I know it was not that blow that did it but all that had gone before.

Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal while others on the contrary obtain a victory by exerting at the last moment more vigorous efforts than before.

Fight one more round. When your feet are so tired you have to shuffle back to the center of the ring fight one more round.

Learn to self-conquest persevere thus for a time and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it.

Entrepreneurs average 3.8 failures before a final success. What sets the successful ones apart is their amazing persistence. There are a lot of people out there with good and marketable ideas but pure entrepreneurial types almost never accept defeat.

No one ever did anything worth doing unless he was prepared to go on with it long after it became something of a bore.

A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.

We must learn from life how to suffer it.

Where I am today has everything to do with the years I spent hanging on to a career by my fingernails.

Competition is easier to accept if you realize it is not an act of oppression or abrasion. ... I've worked with my best friends in direct competition.

One can go a long way after one is tired.

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

Giving up is the ultimate tragedy.

In the clutch of circumstance I have not winced or cried aloud Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody but unbowed.

If something doesn't come up the way you want you have to forge ahead.

One thing at a time all things in succession. That which grows slowly endures.

Emotional maturity is the ability to stick to a job and to struggle through until it is finished to endure unpleasantness discomfort and frustration.