Winning doesn’t always mean being first. Winning means you’re doing better than you’ve done before. _ Bonnie Blair

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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

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Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. - Henry Ford

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I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than the things I haven’t done. — Lucille Ball

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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

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Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. The slogan ‘Press On’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. —Calvin Coolidge

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

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We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

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Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow. _ Helen Keller

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