What we do in life echoes in eternity.
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Every man dies, not every man really lives.
William Wallace
I don’t believe in the no-win scenario.
Kirk
Never give up! Never surrender!
Taggart
Seize the day! Make your lives extraordinary.
Mr. Keating
Hang in there.
Sully
Because it's there.
George Leigh Mallory
Job's not finished.
Kobe Bryant
This too shall pass.
Hebrew saying
Americans never quit.
Douglas MacArthur
Don't dream it, be it.
Frankie
Carpe Diem! Sieze the day!
Mr. Keating
No points for second place.
Slider
First of all, be what you are.
Georges Bernanos
You are what you choose to be.
Hogarth Hughes
Comparison is the thief of joy.
Misattributed to Theodore Roosevelt
Never despise meager beginnings.
Marty
Nothing will work unless you do.
Maya Angelou
Give me Liberty or give me death!
Patrick Henry
Well, we knocked the bastard off!
Edmund Hillary
Every artist was first an amateur.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Get busy living, or get busy dying.
Andy Dufresne
I see a chance to make a new start.
Dale
No power in the ‘verse can stop me.
Kaylee
Well done is better than well said.
Benjamin Franklin
Every day above ground is a good day.
Bernstein
It matters if you just don't give up.
Stephen Hawking
Never put an age limit on your dreams.
Dara Torres
Do one thing every day that scares you.
Eleanor Roosevelt
There are no victims in this classroom.
Louanne Johnson
You’ve got to take up some space, girl.
Ann Brashares
A pint of sweat saves a gallon of blood.
General George S. Patton, Jr.
Courage, Merry, courage for our friends.
Eowyn
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
Confucius
The darkest hour is that before the dawn.
English proverb
Believe you can and you're halfway there.
Misattributed to Theodore Roosevelt
Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
Voltaire
To do two things at once is to do neither.
Publilius Syrus
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
Misattributed to Sun Tzu
Self-trust is the first secret of success.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you are going through hell, keep going.
Misattributed to Winston Churchill
Winners never quit and quitters never win.
Misattributed to Vince Lombardi
Genius is always accompanied by enthusiasm.
Bryant McGill
If a man does his best, what else is there?
General George S. Patton, Jr.
It’s all about the journey, not the outcome.
Carl Lewis
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
Muhammad Ali
A minute’s success pays the failure of years.
Robert Browning
If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.
Latin Proverb
Problem is just a bleak word for a challenge.
Richard
Think nothing done while aught remains to do.
Samuel Rogers
The time is always right to do what is right.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing.
Vince Lombardi
I never needed external forces to motivate me.
Kobe Bryant
He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence.
William Blake
Not anxious to die sir, just anxious to matter.
Rafe
Success is not forever and failure isn’t fatal.
Don Shula
Wish for what you want, work for what you need.
Ann Brashares
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Misattributed to Mark Twain
A failure is simply the non-presence of success.
Drew Baylor
I only set the stage. You pull your own strings.
John Milton
Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work.
Andre Agassi
Do every act of thy life as if it were the last.
Marcus Aurelius
We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time.
Vince Lombardi
What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
Jane Austen
In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.
Misattributed to Sun Tzu
Defeat—I do not recognise the meaning of the word!
Margaret Thatcher
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Thomas Huxley
Things won are done, joy’s soul lies in the doing.
William Shakespeare
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
William Shakespeare
Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.
William Shakespeare
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt
Fight. Fight to the last man. Fight for your lives.
Gandalf
Never trouble another for what you can do yourself.
Thomas Jefferson
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
You should hammer your iron when it is glowing hot.
Publilius Syrus
We're either getting better or we're getting worse.
David Goggins
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.
John F. Kennedy
I want to live deep and suck the marrow out of life!
Henry David Thoreau
Never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day.
Thomas Jefferson
You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
I always say, better ask forgiveness than permission.
Brom
Every one excels in something in which another fails.
Publilius Syrus
Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.
William Hazlitt
We have done the impossible and that makes us mighty.
Mal
"Impossible" is a word that humans use far too often.
Seven of Nine
You have to train your mind like you train your body.
Bruce Jenner
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Steve Jobs
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
Plato
A person who makes few mistakes makes little progress.
Bryant McGill
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
William Blake
Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
Benjamin Franklin
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
Mother Teresa
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Truman Capote
I will be as broad as the earth. I will not be limited.
Ray Stannard Baker
There's nothing stronger than the heart of a volunteer.
Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Confucius
Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.
Alexander Graham Bell
The darkest hour is that before the dawn. English proverb
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An editorial interpretation.
The proverb places the darkest hour immediately before dawn, inviting hope that difficulty may precede improvement. It is a figurative encouragement rather than a measured rule about darkness. English proverb is the retained attribution note.
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If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. Latin Proverb
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The proverb advises using another means when the wind cannot move a boat. It turns a practical alternative into a broader encouragement to adapt. Latin Proverb is the retained attribution note.
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Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday. Unknown source.
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The line observes that yesterday's feared future has become the present. It invites perspective on anticipation without claiming worries are always groundless. Unknown source is the retained note.
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It is better to light one candle than curse the darkness. Chinese proverb
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An editorial interpretation.
The saying favours a small constructive act over complaining about a difficult situation. The candle and darkness form the comparison; Chinese proverb is the retained attribution note.
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Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead. Scottish Proverb
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The proverb urges enjoyment of the time one is alive by contrasting it with the long finality of death. Scottish Proverb is the retained attribution note.
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Be not afraid of growing slowly. Be afraid only of standing still. Chinese Proverb
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The proverb values continued growth even when slow and warns against stagnation. Chinese Proverb is the retained attribution note.
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Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Chinese proverb
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An editorial interpretation.
The proverb contrasts providing one meal with teaching a skill that can support someone over time. Its lifetime promise is an expansive comparison rather than a guarantee of food security. Chinese proverb is the retained attribution note.
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Dance as if no one is looking, work as if you didn't have to, and love as if you've never been hurt. Source unknown.
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The advice urges dancing, working and loving without the usual inhibitions of judgment, obligation and hurt. Its source remains explicitly unknown; no author is supplied.
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I have done, this year, what I said I would: overcome my fear of facing a blank page day after day, acknowledging myself, in my deepest emotions, a writer, come what may. Probably from her journals
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The speaker celebrates returning to the blank page and accepting an identity as a writer despite uncertainty. The final line is a retained uncertain journal note; it does not establish authorship.
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