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Life has no smooth road for any of us and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim the very roughness stimulates the climber to steadier steps till the legend "over steep ways to the stars " fulfills itself.

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

The first need of being is endurance to endure with gladness if we can with fortitude in any event.

Be content to grow a little each day. If the improvement is the sort of thing which is very slow do not measure it too often. Do a self-comparison every two weeks or every six months whatever is appropriate.

Don't get hung up on a snag in the stream my dear. Snags are not so dangerous-it's the debris that clings to them that makes the trouble. Pull yourself loose and go on.

I'm not there yet but I'm closer than I was yesterday.

The way of progress is neither swift nor easy.

When you're a professional you come back no matter what happened the day before.

Fortune is like the market where many times if you can stay a little the price will fall.

First there are those who are winners and know they are winners. Then there are the losers who know they are losers. Then there are those who are not winners but don't know it. They're the ones for me. They never quit trying. They're the soul of our game.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

There is something in me-I just can't stand to admit defeat.

You give ioo percent in the first half of the game and if that isn't enough in the second half you give what's left.

Our desire must be like a slow and stately ship sailing across endless oceans never in search of safe anchorage. Then suddenly unexpectedly it will find mooring for a moment.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we ... are often on the line and do not know it. How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort a little more patience would have achieved success. A little more persistence a little more effort and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.

No great thing is created suddenly.

I bend but I do not break.