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Perseverance

Perseverance, self-reliance, energetic effort, are doubly strengthened when your rise to battle again.

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Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.

Ovid

Boys, there ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got the raw deals. You've got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it. It's called perseverance.

Iacocca, Lee

I'm proof that great things can happen to ordinary people if they work hard and never give up.

Herhiser, Orel

Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. [James 1:4]

Bible

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed.

Henley, William Ernest

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Hayes, Woody

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.

Palmer, Arnold

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

Thatcher, Margaret

10.

You have to keep plugging away. We are all growing. There is no shortcut. You have to put time into it to build an audience

John Gruber

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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

Burke, Edmund

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Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown.

Perot, H. Ross

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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

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Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.

Waitley, Denis

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You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round.

Corbett, James J.

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Never give up. Keep your thoughts and your mind always on the goal.

Bradley, Tom

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The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.

Lucretius

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Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.

Elliott, Walter

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It helps, I think, to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith, to endure, to help each other when we stumble or tire, to weep and press on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens.

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

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I never thought I didn't have a card to play.

Lovell, Jim

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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.

Riley, James Whitcomb

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No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Epictetus

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When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Samuel Johnson

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It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

Einstein, Albert

29.

Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

Billings, Josh

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A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Success... seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

Hilton, Conrad

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They, that unnamed they, they've knocked me down but I got up. I always get up -- and I swear when I went down quite often I took the fall; nothing moves a mountain but itself. They, I've long ago named them me.

Corso, Gregory

33.

I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

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Champions keep playing until they get it right.

King, Billie Jean

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If you've got the guts to stick it out... you're going to make it.

Hays, Brian

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Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty give way.

Collier, Jeremy

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One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.

Allen, George

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I am confident. I never give up.

Vicario, Arantxa Sanchez

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If you keep working at it, in the last analysis, you win. They've got to kill us a hundred times. All we have to do is kill them once.

Smith, Frederick

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Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward

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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.

Rockefeller, John D.

44.

There's only one way you can fail, and that's to quit.

Hays, Brian

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Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Morley, Christopher

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Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

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Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

Hill, Napoleon

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When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row.

Paul, Alice

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Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.

James, William

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Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean.

Ross, Percy