Didn't make the YC11 cut? Quotes to the rescue...

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'Success is going from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.' Winston Churchill

'There are no short cuts to any place worth going.' Beverly Sills

'If everything seems under control you're not going fast enough.' Mario Andrretti

'To become a champion, fight one more round.' James Corbett

via It's not how good you are, it's how good you want to be by Paul Arden

"Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show how badly we want something. "

~Randy Pausch, Last Lecture (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo)

"Apparently the most likely animals to be left alive after a nuclear war are cockroaches, because they're so hard to kill. That's what you want to be as a startup, initially. Instead of a beautiful but fragile flower that needs to have its stem in a plastic tube to support itself, better to be small, ugly, and indestructible."

- PG in The hacker's guide to investors, Apr 2007

"We are still young, we are still eager to make mistakes."

"It is not the string of wrongs past, but the wrongs to come that I must look forward to."

Sorry, don't remember the sources.

I can't help myself http://cheks.in/eRFqrz

"It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up." - Vince Lombardi

"I get knocked down but I get up again -- you're never gonna keep me down" -- Tubthumping by Chumbawamba

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H5uWRjFsGc

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