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"History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it." -- Sir Winston Churchill "Indecision is like a stepchild: if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water." -- African Proverb "The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going." -- Anonymous "One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do." -- A. C. Benson "Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because we are driven into a corner and must say somethign." -- Frank Crane, Essays "If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable." -- Seneca "Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work." -- Stephen King "The difficult we do immediately. The impossible takes a little longer." -- Slogan of the U.S. Army Service Forces "It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop." -- Confucius "If something doesn't come up the way you want, you have to forge ahead." -- Clint Eastwood "If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain." -- Dolly Parton "It's a mistake to confuse 'to desire' and 'to want'. The desire mesures the obstacles and the want defeats them." -- Alexandre Herculano "Obstacles cannot crush me, every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind." -- Leonardo da Vinci "A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles." -- Christopher Reeve "We can do anything we want to as long as we stick to it long enough." -- Helen Keller "You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction." -- George Lorimer "As long as one keeps searching, the answers come." -- Joan Baez "The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will." -- Vincent T. Lombardi "If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful after all." --  Michelangelo "You are what you think. You are what you go for. You are what you do!" -- Bob Richards "To follow, without halt, one aim: That's the secret of success." -- Anna Pavlova "A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done." -- Vince Lombardi "The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination." -- Tommy Lasorda "The will must be stronger than the skill." -- Muhammad Ali