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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
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What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.
Ellen Glasgow
It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.
Ellen Glasgow
Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.
Ellen Glasgow
So long as one is able to pose one has still much to learn about suffering.
Ellen Glasgow
...America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind. We are able to accommodate, at a time, only one national hero; and we demand that that hero shall be uniform and invincible. As a literate people we are preoccupied, neither with the race nor the individual, but with the type. Yesterday, we romanticized the "tough guy;" today, we are romanticizing the underprivileged, tough or tender; tomorrow, we shall begin to romanticize the pure primitive.
Ellen Glasgow
