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-- Sir Edmund Hillary

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Defeat may test you; it need not stop you. If at first you don't succeed, try another way. For every obstacle there is a solution. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. The greatest mistake is giving up.



It takes a little courage, and a little self -- control. And some grim determination, If you want to reach the goal. It takes a deal of striving, and a firm and stern-set chin. No matter what the battle, If you really want to win. There's no easy path to glory, There's no road to fame. Life, however we may view it, Is no simple parlor game; But it's prizes call for fighting, For endurance and for grit; For a rugged disposition and don't know when to quit.



Life is queer with its twists and turns, As everyone of us sometimes learns, And many a failure turns about, When he might have won had he stuck it out, Don't give up though the race seems slow, You may succeed with another blow, Success is failure turned inside out, The silver tint of the clouds of doubt, And be near when it seems so far, So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit, It's when things seem worse, That you must not quit.



There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.



The only cure for seasickness is to sit on the shady side of a church in the country.



My play was a complete success. The audience was a failure.



A fellow can't keep people from having a bad opinion of him, but he can keep them from being right about it.



A great deal of laziness of mind is called liberty of opinion.



A man is getting along on the road to wisdom when he begins to realize that his opinion is just an opinion.



Don't be swayed just because they say it's public opinion. Remember, public opinion is simple what everybody else thinks.



Don't worry over what other people are thinking about you. They're too busy worrying over what you are thinking about them.



If God thought about you as much as you think about Him, where would you be?



In every fat book there is a thin book trying to get out.



In my opinion a mathematician need not preoccupy himself with philosophy -- An opinion, moreover, which has been expressed by many philosophers.



Opinions are the cheapest commodities in the world.