Confucius Quotes
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The role of a clown and a physician are the same - it's to elevate the possible and to relieve suffering.
Patch Adams
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To make our way, we must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity. We must gear ourselves to work hard all the way. We can never let up.
Ralph Bunche
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Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
Napoleon Hill
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The big talent is persistence.
Octavia E. Butler
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Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it to a higher level requires the same dedication and persistence that any art form does.
Walter Murch
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First and foremost, let us remember that change has never been quick. Change has never been simple, or without controversy. Change depends on persistence. Change requires determination.
Barack Obama
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It takes a little more persistence to get up and go the distanceI'm not giving inI'm not missing outI'm not giving up on implausible dreams - The Enemy Within (Part I of 'Fear') (1984)
Neil Peart Rush
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Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.
Bill Bradley
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It's our privilege to work with College Track students as they chart their course toward a college degree - they bring persistence, creativity, and extraordinary discipline throughout their academic journey.
Laurene Powell Jobs
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Retaining culture takes effort and persistence and discipline. It's a commitment, not a flag. You can't just pull it out and wave it about when it's convenient.
Alexandra Fuller
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Success is all about persistence and doing the right thing for the long term.
Bruce Rauner
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Success is not the absence of failure; it's the persistence through failure.
Aisha Tyler
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I swam across Skaneateles Lake, about a mile, when I was 11 years old. I remember feeling when I was in the middle of the lake that I would be there forever, and having no idea where on shore I'd end up. I made it, and I'm proud of the determination and persistence that took.
Kim Edwards
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When we say that the persistence of competition is ensured by fate, we mean that individual freedom is so guaranteed. The one thing to which fate binds us is liberty.
John Bates Clark
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Asking in faith requires honesty, effort, commitment, and persistence.
David A. Bednar
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Because of their courage and persistence for many years, we can, today, even set the dates when all humanity will join together to celebrate one of the outstanding human victories of our century. When that moment comes, we shall, together, rejoice in a common victory over racism, apartheid and white minority rule.
Nelson Mandela
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Persistence is the great measure of individual human character.
Brian Tracy
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Implement your plans with courage and persistence. Have complete faith in your ability to succeed and never, ever give up.
Brian Tracy
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The first quality to be named must always be the power of attention, of giving one's whole mind to the patient without the interposition of anything of oneself. It sounds simple but only the very greatest doctors ever fully attain it. ... The second thing to be striven for is intuition. This sounds an impossibility, for who can control that small quiet monitor? But intuition is only interference from experience stored and not actively recalled. ... The last aptitude I shall mention that must be attained by the good physician is that of handling the sick man's mind.
Wilfred Trotter
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If you make a gun, you are either going to sell it or you are going to use it. And if you're going to sell it, someone else is going to use it.
Arthur Boyd
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A telescope will magnify a star a thousand times, but a good press agent can do even better.
Fred Allen
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Don't ever feel that you have to hide who you are. Nothing good ever comes from keeping secrets like that.
Lisa See
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The few really great-the major novelists ... are significant in terms of the human awareness they promote; awareness of the possibilities of life.
F. R. Leavis
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A man without persistence will never make a good shaman or a good physician.
Confucius