"If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, ''Here comes number seventy-one!''"

-- Richard DeVos

#Determination Quotes #Adversity Quotes #Persistence Quotes

“Four years earlier I had been selected, with Kay Boyle, the writer, and a number of others, to go to Cambodia and come back and prove that there were no sanctuaries in that country.”
“Men had suddenly become a scarce commodity, if not quite as sought after as rice.”

Source : John Burnham Schwartz (2009). “The Commoner”, p.8, Vintage
“There is more at stake here than just our lives. Â It is the lives around us.”
“Make all fair allowance for the mistakes of youth.”
“It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men.”
“Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.”
“Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown from his hope.”
“Hen nights should be banned. You're honour-bound to behave atrociously, then feel terribly ashamed afterwards. (This Charming Man)”

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