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Quotes about Perseverance
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
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 - common sense and perseverance.
~ Owen Feltham
Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.
~ Plutarch
The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.
~ David Sarnoff
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.
~ Walter Elliott
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
~ Napoleon Hill
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
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
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
~ Margaret Thatcher
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
~ John Quincy Adams
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
~ Samuel Johnson
A jug fills drop by drop.
~ Buddha
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
I'm proof that great things can happen to ordinary people if they work hard and never give up.
~ Orel Herhiser
How long should you try? Until.
~ Jim Rohn
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
Perseverance allows you to get back on track when you hit a detour.
~ Catherine Pulsifer
We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.
~ Helen Keller
Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.
~ Julie Andrews
I hold a doctrine, to which I owe not much, indeed, but all the little I ever had, namely, that with ordinary talent and extraordinary perserverance, all things are attainable.
~ Sir T. F. Buxton
The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
~ Chinese proverb
Perseverance is king.
~ Josh Billings
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.
~ Epictetus
The important thing in life is to have great aim and to possess the aptitude and the perseverance to attain it.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Without sweat and toil no work is made perfect.
~ Latin proverb
Those who would attain to any marked degree of excellence in a chosen pursuit must work, and work hard for it, prince or peasant.
~ Bayard Taylor
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
~ Louis Pasteur
He who would do some great thing in this short life, must apply himself to the work with such a concentration of his forces as to the idle spectators, who live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity.
~ John Foster
It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.
~ Confucius
Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
~ Newt Gingrich
He who conquers endures.
~ Persius
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
~ Albert Einstein
Perseverance... keeps honor bright: to have done, is to hang quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail in monumental mockery.
~ William Shakespeare
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
~ William James
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
~ Marilyn vos Savant
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