Perseverance
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- All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of you first.--Ralph Waldo Emerson
- All my problems bow before my stubbornness.--Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
- All respect comes from persisting to completion.--Melissa Lima
- All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance; it is by this that the quarry becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries are united with canals. If a man was to compare the single stroke of the pickaxe, or of one impression of the spade, with the general design and the last result, he would be overwhelmed by the sense of their disproportion; yet those petty operations, incessantly continued, in time surmount the greatest difficulties, and mountains are leveled and oceans bounded by the slender force of human beings.--Samuel Johnson
- Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.--Bill Bradley
- Any individual can be, in time, what he earnestly desires to be, if he but set his face steadfastly in the direction of that one thing and bring all his powers to bear upon its attainment.--J. Herman Randall
- 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.--Denis Waitley
- Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliancy and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the everlasting and sanctified bulldoggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold.--Dr. A.B. Meldrum
- Brick walls are there for a reason. They give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.--Randy Pausch (The Last Lecture)
- Champions keep playing until they get it right.--Billie Jean King
- Champions know there are no shortcuts to the top. They climb the mountain one step at a time. They have no use for helicopters!--Judi Adier
- Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.--Josh Billings
- Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.–-Winston Churchill
- Diamonds are only chunks of coal,
That stuck to their jobs, you see.--Minnie Richard Smith ("Stick to Your Job")
- 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
- The difference in winning and losing is most often, not quitting.--Walt Disney
- Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession.--Isaac Watts
- Do not take lightly small good deeds,
Believing they can hardly help.
For drops of water, one by one,
In time, can fill a giant pot.--Patrul Rinpoche
- Don't give up. Keep going. There is always a chance that you will stumble over something terrific. I have never hear of anyone stumbling over anything while he was sitting down.--Ann Landers
- A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.--Colin Powell
- Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.--Napoleon Hill
- Energy and persistence conquer all things.-–Benjamin Franklin
- Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.--Anonymous
- Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.--George Eliot
- Flaming enthusiasm backed by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.--Dale Carnegie
- The force of the waves is in their perseverance.--Gila Guri
- Get up one time more than you're knocked down.--Peter's Principle of Success
- Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.--Admiral Hyman Rickover
- The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to thing when you have outlived the first interest and not yet the second which comes with a sort of mastery.--Janet Erskine Stuart (Life and Letters of Janet Erskine Stuart)
- Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.--Samuel Johnson
- The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed up in these two--commonsense and perseverance.--Owen Feltham
- He conquers who endures.--Persius
- I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.--Tom Hopkins
- I do not think 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
- I think there are two keys to being creatively productive. One is not being daunted by one's fear of failure. the second is sheer perseverance.--Mary-Claire King
- I'd look at one of my stonecutters hammering away at the rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet, at the hundred and first blow it would split in two, and I knew it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.--Jacob A. Riis
- 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 M. Devos
- If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.--Shelley Long
- If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- If you persevere, stick with it, wok at it, you have a real opportunity to achieve. If you do your best and keep a true compass, you'll get there.--Ted Kennedy (True Compass)
- If you really want something, and really work hard, and take advantage of opportunities, and never give up, you will find a way.--Jane Goodall
- If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.--Samuel Johnson
- In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins--not through strength but by perseverance.--H. Jackson Brown
- Industry and determination can do anything that genius and advantage can do and many things that they cannot.--Theodore Roosevelt
- Innovation is a lot like excellence in any endeavor. Difficult but manageable to do once, infinitely harder to produce consistently. Think about all those one-hit wonders that had a single record or very possibly a single song. They disappear without a trace. What distinguishes a true star from his or her contemporaries is an ability to pull off feats of brilliance repeatedly. And it's no accident!--Gary Ryan Blair (Mind Munchies : A Delicious Assortment of Brain Snacks!)
- An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.--Thomas Fuller
- It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking at it that one overcomes it; but, rather, often by working on the one next to it. Certain people and certain things require to be approached at an angle.--Andre Gide
- It is not necessary to hope in order to understand, nor to succeed in order to persevere.--Charles The Bold
- It's not that I'm so smart; it's just that I stay with problems longer.--Albert Einstein (from The Quotable Teacher, comp. by Howe)
- It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.--Vince Lombardi
- It takes a little courage, and a little self-control. And some grim determination, If you want to reach the goal. It takes a deal of striving, and a firm and stern-set chin. No matter what the battle, If you really want to win. There's no easy path to glory, There's no road to fame. Life, however we may view it, Is no simple parlor game; But it's prizes call for fighting, For endurance and for grit; For a rugged disposition and don't know when to quit.--Anonymous
- It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance, sweeps away all obstacles.--Claude M. Bristol
- Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.--Ella Fitzgerald
- Let me tell you the secret that has led to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.--Louis Pasteur
- 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.--Sadi
- The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, is energy - invincible determination--a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory.--Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
- The man on top of the mountain did not fall there.--Anonymous
- The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.--Roger Bannister
- The man who gives up accomplishes nothing and is only a hindrance. The man who does not give up can move mountains.--Ernest Hello
- The mind is but a set of mental habits, ways of thinking and feeling, and to change they must be brought to the surface and examined. ... Just resolve and persevere, the rest will take care of itself.--Nisargadatta Maharaj
- The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit.--Mark Twain
- 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
- Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.--Dale Carnegie
- Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.--Robert Schuller
- Never measure the height of a mountain until you reach the top. Then you will see how low it was.--Dag Hammerskjold
- 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. The slogan, 'press on' has solved, and always will solve, the problems of the human race.--Calvin Coolidge
- Nothing succeeds like persistence. The common denominator of all successful people is their persistence.--John-Roger and Peter McWilliams (Do It! Let's Get Off our Buts)
- On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.--Friedrich Nietzsche
- 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
- One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.--John Wanamaker
- Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.--Kahlil Gibran
- Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.--William Penn
- Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.--John Quincy Adams
- People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.--George E. Allen
- The people who are playing it totally safe are never going to have either the fun or the reward of the people who decide to take some risk, stick out, do it differently.--John F. Akers
- Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragement, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.--Thomas Carlyle
- Perseverance alone does not assure success. No amount of stalking will lead to game in a field that has none.--I Ching
- Perseverance and audacity generally win.--Dorothee DeLuzy
- 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 W. Longfellow
- Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.--Julie Andrews
- 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
- Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.--Walter Elliott
- Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.--Newt Gingrich ("Newtie's Greatest Hits" by Buckley New York Times Book Review 3/12/95)
- Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.--Robert Half
- Persistence may not solve everything - at least in our lifetime - but it is truer to the meaning of life for us to wait for another plowing, another seeding, another harvest, then not.--Joan Chittister (The Gift of Years: Growing Older Gracefully)
- Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.--Edward Eggleston
- Plodding wins the race.--Aesop
- The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.--Ted W. Engstrom
- Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.--Herodotus
- Sometimes things aren’t clear right away. That’s where you need to be patient and persevere and see where things lead.--Mary Pierce
- Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.--Winston Churchill
- Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.--Conrad Hilton
- Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.--William Feather
- Take up one thing and do it, and see the end of it, and before you have seen the end, do not give up. Those who only take a nibble here and a nibble there will never atain anything.--Vivekananda
- Tenacity is a pretty fair substitute for bravery, and the best form of tenacity I know is expressed in a Danish fur trapper's principle" "The next mile is the only one a person really has to make."--Eric Sevareid
- Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.--Steve Martin (Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life)
- 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
- There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere...There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid towards your goals....--Ben Stein
- To those of you that's on the path of discovery, No Matter what!! Don't Abandon, despair, or give up, Don't let people's actions and opinions influence you on this journey. Remember "there is always casualties in a war". But alas, the day you have found it, you will discontinue, and be truly happy and fulfilled. You have discovered and you have conquered!--Christine Ferreira-Netto
- The universal line of distinction between the strong and the weak is that one persists; the other hesitates, falters, trifles, and at last collapses or "caves in."--Edwin Percy Whipple ("Character" Character and Characteristic Men)
- Victory belongs to the most persevering.--Napoleon
- We conquer - not in any brilliant fashion - we conquer by continuing.--George Matheson
- We pray to you, O God ... for strength, determination, and willpower, to do instead of just to pray, to become instead of merely to wish.--Harold S. Kushner
- We rate ability in people by what they finish, not by what they begin!--Robert J. Strand (Moments for Marvelous Mothers)
- We shall go forward together. The road upward is strong. There are upon our journey, dark and dangerous valleys. But it is sure and certain that if we persevere, and we shall persevere, we shall come though dark and dangerous valleys into sunlight broader and more genial and more lasting than mankind has ever known.--Winston Churchill
- What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.--Barbara Kingsolver
- Whatever the struggle, continue the climb. It may be only one step to the summit.-–Diane Westlake
- When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.--Thomas A. Edison
- When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.--Harriet Beecher Stowe
- When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word "succeed," you find that it simply means to follow through.--F. W. Nichol
- When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.--Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- You can do what you want to do, accomplish what you want to accomplish, attain any reasonable objective you may have in mind - not all of a sudden, perhaps not in one swift and sweeping act of achievement - but you can do it gradually, day by day and play by play, if you want to do it, if you work to do it, over a sufficiently long period of time.--William E. Holler
- You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.--Rosalynn Carter
- You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.--Rene Mcpherson
- Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.--Brian Tracy
- Your most valuable asset can be your willingness to persist longer than anyone else.--Brian Tracey (The Treasury of Quotes)
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