Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

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There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind. — C. S. Lewis

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Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted. — David Bly

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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

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I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion. — Alexander the Great

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. ― Henry David Thoreau

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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

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It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. — J. K. Rowling

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The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

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