1. Orison Swett Marden

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Hungering and striving after knowledge is what makes a scholar; hungering and striving after virtue is what makes a Saint; hungering and striving after noble action is what makes a hero and a man.

2. Harriet Beecher Stowe

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When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you, ’til it seems as if you couldn’t hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that’s just the place and time that the tide’ll turn.

3. Napoleon Hill

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You cannot scare a man who is at peace with God, his fellow men, and himself. There is no room for fear in such a man’s heart. When fear finds a welcome, there is something that needs awakening.

4. Theodore Roosevelt

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The lives of truest heroism are those in which there are no great deeds to look back upon. It is the little things well done that go to make up a successful and truly good life.

5. Miguel de Cervantes

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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

6. Anon

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No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm.

7. John Burroughs

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One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above little things.

8. Shakespeare

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Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

9. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Always do what you are afraid to do.

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