Adapted from Rudyard Kipling's 'If' by the Special Air Service.
A champion is one who gets up even when he can't.Jack Dempsey, Heavyweight Boxing Champion
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes, the wise and the good learn wisdom for the future.
Plutarch, Historian
Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.
Elbert Hubbard, Writer and Craftsman
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.
Benjamin Disraeli
If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.
Abigail Van Buren, Advice Columnist
I never tried quitting, and I never quit trying.
Dolly Parton, Entertainer
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
George Woodberry, Poet
It is time to get back to basics: to self-discipline and respect for the law, to consideration for others, to accepting responsibility for yourself and your family, and not shuffling it off on the state.
John Major, Former British Prime Minister
Leaders must learn to discipline their disappointments. It's not what happens to us, it is what we choose to do about what happens that makes the difference in how our lives turn out.Jim Rohn, Motivational Speaker
These are not dark days; these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.
Winston Churchill
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