It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

Leonardo da Vinci

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It's perseverance that's the key. It's persevering for long enough to achieve your potential.

Your ability to succeed, to fail, to win, to lose is just a matter of attitude.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything.

Timing, perseverance, and 10 years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.

Be very strong, be very methodical in your life if you want to be a champion.

Alberto Juantorena

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

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