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Perseverance

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

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Best Quotes about Perseverance

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

When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.

Edison, Thomas A.

Nothing in the 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.

Coolidge, Calvin

You just can't beat the person who never gives up.

Ruth, Babe

Persevere and get it done.

Allen, George

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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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Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Lyly, John

11.

Lots of people limit their possibilities by giving up easily. Never tell yourself this is too much for me. It's no use. I can't go on. If you do you're licked, and by your own thinking too. Keep believing and keep on keeping on.

Peale, Norman Vincent

12.

A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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.

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When the going gets tough, the tough hang in there.

15.

Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the next time out.

Snead, Sam

16.

Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation.

Nicklaus, Jack

17.

People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.

Allen, George E.

18.

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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For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised. [Hebrews 10:36]

Bible

20.

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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The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.

Hill, Napoleon

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Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never, never -- in nothing great or small, large or petty. Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.

Churchill, Winston

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To be somebody you must last.

Gordon, Ruth

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One should act in consonance with the way of heaven and earth, which is enduring and eternal. The superior man perseveres long in his course, adapts to the times, but remains firm in his direction and correct in his goals.

I Ching

25.

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Proverb, Japanese

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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

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It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.

Ruth, Babe

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All great achievements require time.

Schwartz, David J.

29.

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

Herhiser, Orel

30.

Never, never, never, never give up.

Churchill, Winston

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I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

Christopher Reeve

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I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

34.

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

Burke, Edmund

35.

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

Lovell, Jim

36.

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Proverb, African

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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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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

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

Bible

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Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the dreary intercourse of daily life, shall ever prevail against us.

Wordsworth, William

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Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliance and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the ever lasting and sanctified bull doggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold.

Meldrum, Dr. A. B.

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Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.

Chesterfield, Lord

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When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.

Brown, Les

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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 somebody.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

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

Elliott, Walter

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A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.

Saadi

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Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.

Rohn, Jim

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Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Eggleston, Edward