I've always tried to go a ...

I\'ve always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.
I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.
 Beverly Sills

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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Never complain and never explain.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
 George S. Patton
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
 Robert Schuller
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
 Harriet Beecher Stowe

Quotes from the same author

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
 Beverly Sills
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
 Beverly Sills
Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.
 Beverly Sills
Art is the signature of civilizations.
 Beverly Sills
I really do believe I can accomplish a great deal with a big grin, I know some people find that disconcerting, but that doesn't matter.
 Beverly Sills