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A jug fills drop by drop.

Gautama Buddha

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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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A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Ambrose Bierce

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A man is not finished when he's defeated; he's finished when he quits.

Richard Nixon

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All great achievements require time.

David J. Schwartz

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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.

Denis Waitley

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.

Napoleon Hill

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Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Christopher Morley

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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.

Lee Iacocca

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

Edmund Burke

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By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Spurgeon

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By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Josh Billings

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Don't halt before you are lame.

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Endurance is the crowning quality...

James Russell Lowell

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

Ovid

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18

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

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Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.

François de La Rochefoucauld

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For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again. -- Proverbs 24:16

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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

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Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.

Samuel Johnson

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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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How long should you try? Until.

Jim Rohn

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25

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success?

Elbert Hubbard

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I am a kind of burr; I shall stick.

William Shakespeare

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

Abraham Lincoln

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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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I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

Albert Einstein

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I will hold.

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I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

George Eliot

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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.

Margaret Thatcher

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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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35

If you are truly flexible and go until... there is really very little you can't accomplish in your lifetime.

Tony Robbins

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If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they have gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you. Except the Will which says to them; Hold on!

Rudyard Kipling

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If you get up one time more than you fall, you will make it through.

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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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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.

Mary Caroline Richards

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40

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can do only a little. Do what you can.

Sydney Smith

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41

It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.

John Wooden

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42

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

Albert Einstein

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It's when things get rough and you don't quit that success comes.

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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.

Norman Vincent Peale

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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas Edison

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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 help at all.

Dale Carnegie

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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.

Ross Perot

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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.

William James

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

Charles Spurgeon

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50

Nearly every man who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. that's not the place to become discouraged.

Thomas Edison

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51

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.

William Wordsworth

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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.

Winston Churchill

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Never say die.

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Never, never, never, never give up.

Winston Churchill

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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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No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.

Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson

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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.

Calvin Coolidge

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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Thomas Edison

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59

Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

Thomas Huxley

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Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

Thomas Carlyle

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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.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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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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Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall.

Sydney Harris

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

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

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

Earl of Chesterfield

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

Napoleon Hill

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Plodding wins the race.

Aesop

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Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.

Samuel Smiles

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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

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71

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.

Jim Rohn

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72

Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You would be surprised to find how far off they are, for they do not look it. When they first showed last night I tried to knock some down with a pole, but it didn't reach, which astonished me. Then I tried clods till I was all tired out, but I never got one. I did make some close shots, for I saw the black blot of the clod sail right into thee midst of the golden clusters forty or fifty times, just barely missing them, and if I could've held out a little longer, maybe I could've got one.

Mark Twain

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Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves.

Winston Churchill

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The darkest hour is just before the dawn.

Perseverance
75

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

Henry Ward Beecher

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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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The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

Napoleon Hill

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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 prompting of a brave, determined spirit.

Mark Twain

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

Napoleon Hill

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The person who wins may have been counted out several times, but didn't hear the referee.

Perseverance
82

There is genius in persistence. It conquers all opposers. It gives confidence. It annihilates obstacles. Everybody believes in a determined man. People know that when he undertakes a thing, the battle is half won, for his rule is to accomplish whatever he sets out to do.

Orison Swett Marden

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This I do know beyond any reasonable doubt. Regardless of what you are doing, if you pump long enough, hard enough and enthusiastically enough, sooner or later the effort will bring forth the reward.

Zig Ziglar

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84

This lady is not for turning.

Margaret Thatcher

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Through struggle to the stars.

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To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forego even ambition when the end is gained -- who can say this is not greatness?

William Makepeace Thackeray

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To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals -- this alone is worth the struggle.

William Osler

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To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.

Euripides

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

Napoleon Hill

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We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.

Helen Keller

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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.

Christian Nevell Bovee

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What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.

Napoleon Hill

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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 Edison

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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.

Les Brown

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

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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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.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

Margaret Thatcher

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You've got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it. It's called perseverance.

Lee Iacocca

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A jug fills drop by drop.

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.

A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

A man is not finished when he's defeated; he's finished when he quits.

All great achievements require time.

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.

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

Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

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.

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

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great.

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

Don't halt before you are lame.

Endurance is the crowning quality...

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

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.

For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again. -- Proverbs 24:16

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

Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.

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.

How long should you try? Until.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success?

I am a kind of burr; I shall stick.

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

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

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.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

I will hold.

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

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.

If you are truly flexible and go until... there is really very little you can't accomplish in your lifetime.

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they have gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you. Except the Will which says to them; Hold on!

If you get up one time more than you fall, you will make it through.

If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

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.

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can do only a little. Do what you can.

It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.

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

It's when things get rough and you don't quit that success comes.

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.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

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.

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.

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.

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

Nearly every man who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. that's not the place to become discouraged.

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.

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.

Never say die.

Never, never, never, never give up.

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.

No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.

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.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

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.

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.

Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall.

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

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

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

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

Plodding wins the race.

Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.

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.

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.

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves.

The darkest hour is just before the dawn.

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

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

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

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.

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

The person who wins may have been counted out several times, but didn't hear the referee.

There is genius in persistence. It conquers all opposers. It gives confidence. It annihilates obstacles. Everybody believes in a determined man. People know that when he undertakes a thing, the battle is half won, for his rule is to accomplish whatever he sets out to do.