Optimists win in the long-run because their miscalculation of how long it will take or how likely it is to succeed motivates them to give it a try. If you knew how hard it would be and how long it would take in the beginning then you might not try in the first place.

James Clear

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If something stands between you and your success, move it. Never be denied.

All happiness depends on courage and work.

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Often it's the little, daily decisions - the ones you make hour by hour - that mean the difference between success and failure.

In order to win, you must expect to win.

Spend eighty percent of your time focusing on the opportunities of tomorrow rather than the problems of yesterday.

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.

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