Best Quotes About Perseverance (Top 100)
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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
Robert Frost
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Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.
Shel Silverstein
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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
JRR Tolkien
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
Erica Jong
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I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
Erica Jong
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It always seems impossible until its done.
Nelson Mandela
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The best way out is always through.
Robert Frost
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There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.
JRR Tolkien
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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
Harper Lee
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Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Oliver Goldsmith
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The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it.
Jordan Belfort
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Thankfully, perseverance is a great substitute for talent.
Steve Martin
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You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
John Bunyan
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Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie
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I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
Margaret Thatcher
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Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.
Yoko Ono
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The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.
Chuck Palahniuk
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You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
Margaret Thatcher
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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race
Calvin Coolidge
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The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
Dolly Parton
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Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
Albert Einstein
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The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Nelson Mandela
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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
John Quincy Adams
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Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give.
William Arthur Ward
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I will find a way — or make one.
Hannibal
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People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
George Bernard Shaw
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There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Life, Stormy says, is not about how fast you run or even with what degree of grace. It's about perseverance, about staying on your feet and slogging forward no matter what.
Dean Koontz
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My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.
Anna Sewell
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I believe life is constantly testing us for our level of commitment, and life's greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never-ending commitment to act until they achieve. This level of resolve can move mountains, but it must be constant and consistent. As simplistic as this may sound, it is still the common denominator separating those who live their dreams from those who live in regret.
Anthony Robbins
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Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Louis Pasteur
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Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.
Dorothy Height
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By perseverance the snail reached the ark.
Charles H. Spurgeon
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There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
Alexander Graham Bell
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Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears.
Gillian Anderson
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Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.
Louis D. Brandeis
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Determination and perseverance move the world; thinking that others will do it for you is a sure way to fail.
Marva Collins
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Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
Vince Lombardi
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Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
Jack Welch
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You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.
Rene Descartes
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Try and fail,but don't fail to try.
John Quincy Adams
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Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
Marilyn vos Savant
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Milton Berle is an inspiration to every young person that wants to get into show business. Hard work, perseverance, and discipline: all the things you need...when you have no talent.
Dean Martin
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He who allows oppression shares the crime.
Desiderius Erasmus
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Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.
Louis L'Amour
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If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.
Emile Zola
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When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.
Isak Dinesen
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If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light, not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of his daily work.
Beryl Markham
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
Abigail Adams
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Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.
Julie Andrews
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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Calvin Coolidge
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Character is long-standing habit.
Plutarch
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One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.
Jack Penn
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A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.
Robert Benchley
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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Napoleon Hill
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Nothing can be done except little by little.
Charles Baudelaire
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I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.
Arnold Palmer
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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
Henry Ward Beecher
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My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.
Bjorn Borg
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How long should you try? Until.
Jim Rohn
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Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
Douglas MacArthur
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If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.
William Edward Hickson
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If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.
Jean Kerr
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I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
John D. Rockefeller
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If you rest, you rust.
Helen Hayes
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It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
Henry Ward Beecher
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The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.
George Santayana
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Grudge no expense - yield to no opposition - forget fatigue - till, by the strength of prayer and sacrifice, the spirit of love shall have overcome .
Maria Weston Chapman
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Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
Josh Billings
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
Napoleon Hill
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Destiny has a lot to do with it, but so do you. You have to persevere, you have to insist.
Andrea Bocelli
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Endurance is patience concentrated.
Thomas Carlyle
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To tend, unfailingly, unflinchingly, towards a goal, is the secret of success.
Anna Pavlova
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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
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It's a long old road, but I know I'm gonna find the end.
Bessie Smith
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Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.
Bill Bradley
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The triumph can't be had without the struggle.
Wilma Rudolph
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History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
B. C. Forbes
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Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
Abigail Adams
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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
Joseph Addison
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Once I decide to do something, I can't have people telling me I can't. If there's a roadblock, you jump over it, walk around it, crawl under it.
Kitty Kelley
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The greater the effort, the greater the glory.
Pierre Corneille
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Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
Josh Billings
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The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.
David Sarnoff
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Failure is not the falling down but the staying down.
Mary Pickford
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I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult... I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking.
Og Mandino
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Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
Benjamin Franklin
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Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage.
Charles Luckman
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I try. I am trying. I was trying. I will try. I shall in the meantime try. I sometimes have tried. I shall still by that time be trying.
Diane Glancy
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Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.
William Cobbett
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There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.
Kin Hubbard
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
Oliver Goldsmith
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A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.
Robert Hughes
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You cannot fake effort; talent is great, but perseverance is necessary.
Amy Bloom
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The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.
James Whitcomb Riley
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What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
Thomas Paine
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Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for.
Marian Wright Edelman
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Success in life is the ability to move from one mistake to another without loosing enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
Even More Perseverance Quotes
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I think you just have to keep knocking down doors, you have to keep being aggressive, and even if somebody says 'No', then you have to knock on the next door.
Magic Johnson
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There is no such thing as natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls.
Lee Trevino
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Watch the turtle. He only moves forward by sticking his neck out.
Lou Gerstner
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A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
Elbert Hubbard
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Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.
Thomas Carlyle
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Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
John Quincy Adams
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Dear God, I pray for patience and I want it right now.
Oren Arnold
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With hearts fortified with these animating reflections, we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare, that, exerting the utmost energy of those powers, which our beneficent Creator hath graciously bestowed upon us, the arms we have compelled by our enemies to assume, we will, in defiance of every hazard, with unabating firmness and perseverance employ for the preservation of our liberties; being with one mind resolved to die freemen rather than to live as slaves.
John Dickinson
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The stubbornness I had as a child has been transmitted into perseverance. I can let go but I don't give up. I don't beat myself up about negative things.
Phylicia Rashad
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The only failure is not to try.
George Clooney
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Try not to do too many things at once. Know what you want, the number one thing today and tomorrow. Persevere and get it done.
George Allen
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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.
Pythagoras
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Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call "Failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.
Mary Pickford
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I often ask myself, 'Who would Jesus vote for?' Then I start to think that he wouldn't vote at all; however, it would not be out of apathy or disinterest, but out of perfection and light. As a miracle worker, I think he would, by the power of God's teachings, the perseverance and the truth, influence in a modern sense whoever is put into office how to best serve his fellow men. One, like his skeptics, may find that impractical. But there is a message in that no man in power can slow the momentum of the will of God, and the miracles of his teachings will be forever victorious.
Criss Jami
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The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.
Lucretius
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Perseverance is not a passive submission to circumstances-it is a strong and active response to the difficult events of life.
Elizabeth George
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Energy and persistence conquer all things.
Benjamin Franklin
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Perseverance is a virtue that cannot be understated.
Bob Riley
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To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.
Euripides
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Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Samuel Johnson
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I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It's a voice of pain and victory.
Anthony Hamilton
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Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
Christopher Morley
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By perseverance the snail reached the ark.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance
Mao Tse-tung
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The three indispensable of genius are: understanding, feeling, and perseverance; the three things that enrich genius are: contentment of mind, the cherishing of good thoughts, and the exercise of memory
Robert Southey
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It is not necessary to hope in order to understand, nor to succeed in order to persevere.
Charles the Bold
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Attempt the end and never stand to doubt;
Nothing's so hard, but search will find it out.
Robert Herrick
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
Christian Nestell Bovee
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If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking
Buddhist Proverb
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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
Elbert Hubbard
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The road to perseverance lies by doubt.
Francis Quarles
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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life... as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Booker T. Washington
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You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flat But to lie there - that's a disgrace.
Edmund Vance Cooke
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Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
Benjamin Disraeli
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Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
William James
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When it goes wrong, you feel like cutting your throat, but you go on. You don't let anything get you down so much that it beats you or stops you.
George Cukor
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Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.
Plutarch
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Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.
Benjamin Franklin
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Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.
Napoleon Hill
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The good Lord made us all out of iron. Then he turns up the heat to forge some of us into steel.
Marie Osmond
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Many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.
William Shakespeare
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Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.
Plutarch
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Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
George Eliot
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Don?t back down just to keep the peace. Standing up for your beliefs builds self-confidence and self-esteem.
Oprah Winfrey
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Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause,-and of obstinacy in a bad one.
Laurence Sterne
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Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.
Charles F. Kettering
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It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.
Robert Frost
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Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.
Marie Curie
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When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.
Thomas Jefferson
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The miracle or the power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance under the promptings of a brave, determined spirit.
Mark Twain
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When you have decided what you believe, what you feel must be done, have the courage to stand alone and be counted
Eleanor Roosevelt