Ralph W. Emerson

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

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Aristotle

A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.

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Marcel Achard

An optimist is a gentleman that believes a lady has finished her telephone conversation upon saying "goodbye".

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Marcel Achard

Nothing is impossible to the man who doesn't have to do it himself.

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Friedrich Nietzsche

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

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D. H. Lawrence

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.

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