When nothing seems to help, I think of a stone-cutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it would split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before together.

— Unknown Source

Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that, said the Queen.

— Unknown Source

Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that, said the Queen.

— Lewis Carroll, English writer, mathematician, and logician whose most famous writings are Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, 1832-1898

When nothing seems to help, I think of a stone-cutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it would split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before together.

— Jacob A. Riis, Danish-American social reformer, journalist, and social documentary photographer, 1849-1914

If you’re going through hell, keep going.

— Winston Churchill, British politician who served twice as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1874-1965

If there’s no struggle, there’s no progress.

— Frederick Douglass, African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, and statesman, 1818-1895

Burn brightly without burning out.

— Richard Biggs, U.S. television and stage actor, 1960-2004
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