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If you want to hit a bird on the wing you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about yourself and, equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbor: you must be living in your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Turn your stumbling blocks into stepping stones.
— Anonymous
The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
— George Eliot
Failure is not in losing, but in no longer believing that winning is worthwhile.
— Anonymous
Keep trying. Take care of the small circle around you. When you have succeeded with them, then move outwards, one small step at a time.
— Audrey Hepburn
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
— George Washington Carver
Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.
— Anonymous
We are very near to greatness: one step and we are safe; can we not take the leap?
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.
— David Starr Jordan
Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you.
— John F. Kennedy
When you're as great as I am, it's hard to be humble.
— Muhammad Ali