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The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.

Endurance is nobler than strength and patience than beauty.

The race is not always to the swift but to those who keep on running.

Slow and steady wins the race.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last in it and not be smashed by it.

Tolerate the ... process of coming to knowledge or certainty or clarity through sometimes apparently hopeless thickets of confusion or bewilderment. Learn not to be surprised or disheartened by the muddle you inhabit and not to press too soon for a superficial reprieve.

People can bear anything.

All effort is in the last analysis sustained by faith that it is worth making.

It's not worthy of human beings to give up.

Hope says to us constantly "go on go on " and leads us to the grave.

If you want to see the sun shine you have to weather the storm.

This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.

The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest and not yet got the second which comes with a sort of mastery.

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we learn to walk.

Obstacles cannot crush me every obstacle yields to stern resolve.

Regression in grief must be seen and supported as a means toward adaptation and health.