The document contains quotes from various famous individuals about developing a growth mindset through hard work, persistence, and embracing failure. The quotes emphasize that accomplishments require making the decision to try, that talent alone is not enough and must be accompanied by hard work and practice, and that failure should be accepted as part of the learning process rather than a reason to give up trying. Developing patience, determination, and continually challenging oneself are highlighted as keys to success.

1. Every accomplishment starts
with the decision to try.
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2. Amateurs call it
genius. Masters
call it practice.
@ThierryHenry
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3. Ever tried?
Ever failed?
No matter.
Try again.
Fail again.
Fail better. Samuel Beckett
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4. Patience, persistence and
perspiration make an unbeatable
combination.
Napoleon Hill
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5. I can accept failure.
Everyone fails at
something. But I
can’t accept not
Trying. Michael Jordan
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6. Whether you
think you can, or
think you can’t…
you’re right.
Henry Ford
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7. If you don’t give
anything, don’t
expect anything.
Success is not coming
to you; you must
come to it.
Marva Collins
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8. Don’t tell me
how talented you
are. Tell me how
hard you work.
Arthur Rubinstein
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9. You have only failed if you have
given up. Until then,
it’s learning.
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10. The price of success is
hard work, dedication
and determination…
knowing that we have
applied the best of
ourselves to the task at
hand.
Vince Lombardi
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11. My biggest motivation? Just to keep challenging
myself. I see life like one long education – every
day I’m learning something new.
Richard Branson
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12. I Hated every minute of training but I said
“Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your
life as a champion.”
Muhammad Ali
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13. Hard work
beats talent
when talent
fails to work
hard.
Kevin Durant
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14. It is impossible to live
without failing at
something, unless you
live so cautiously that you
might as well not have
lived at all; in which case
you fail by default.
J K Rowling
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15. People say I’m lucky
but, you know, the
more I practice the
luckier I get.
Gary Player
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16. It’s fine to celebrate success but it
is more important to heed the
lessons of failure.
Bill Gates
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17. It’s not that I’m
smart; I just stay
with problems
longer.
Albert Einstein
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18. Satisfaction lies
in the effort, not
the attainment;
full effort is full
victory.
Mahatma Gandhi
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