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A dog teaches a boy three things: fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down. ~Robert Benchley

A door opens to me. I go in and am faced with a hundred closed doors. ~Antonio Porchia

Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self-esteem that is priceless. ~Scott Hamilton

As a means to success, determination has this advantage over talent - that it does not have to be recognized by others. ~Robert Brault

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting. ~Christopher Morley

But the moment you turn a corner you see another straight stretch ahead and there comes some further challenge to your ambition. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character, leadership, creativity, perseverance. ~William Julius Wilson

By perseverance the snail reached the ark. ~Charles Spurgeon

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. ~Josh Billings

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air. ~John Quincy Adams

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Difficult things take a long time, impossible things a little longer. ~André A. Jackson

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves. ~Dale Carnegie

Don't be discouraged. It's often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock. ~Author Unknown

Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use. ~Earl Nightingale

Everything that I've ever been able to accomplish in skating and in life has come out of adversity and perseverance. ~Scott Hamilton

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure. ~George Eliot

Fall seven times, stand up eight. ~Japanese Proverb

Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority. ~Vince Lombardi

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance. ~Samuel Johnson

He conquers who endures. ~Persius

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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

I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success. ~Tanya Tucker

I frequently-regularly-often trip while reaching for my high ideals. Then I giggle, or cry, and get back up. ~Erika Harris

I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It's a voice of pain and victory. ~Anthony Hamilton

I may not be there yet, but I'm closer than I was yesterday. ~Author Unknown

I need a teacher quite as much as Helen. I know the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life, if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it. ~Anne Sullivan Macy

I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves. ~Major Taylor

I think one of the most important attributes is perseverance. ~David Rose

I was never specifically associated with a part, I didn't have tons of money, I wasn't conventionally tall or handsome, so you know the things that were available to me were hard work and perseverance. ~Seth Green

If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again. ~Flavia Weedn, Flavia and the Dream Maker, © Flavia.com

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If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking. ~Buddhist Saying

If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation, we shall find manifest examples of premeditation, perseverance, resolution, and consumate artifice, in order to effect their purpose. ~William Bartram

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius. ~Joseph Addison

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

I'll admit that it's not easy to get an agent, but becoming successful in anything requires perseverance. ~Nicholas Sparks

In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance. ~Mao Tse-Tung

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

It's perseverance that's the key. It's persevering for long enough to achieve your potential. ~Lynn Davies

Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears. ~Gillian Anderson

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Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down. ~Charles F. Kettering

Keep the faith, don't lose your perseverance and always trust your gut extinct. ~Paula Abdul

Let perseverance be your engine and hope your fuel. ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Life is not about how fast you run or how high you climb but how well you bounce. ~Vivian Komori

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained. ~Marie Curie

Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before. ~Jacob A. Riis

Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent. ~William Cobbett

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. ~William James

Much has been accomplished during the last year in the campaign against terrorism. This struggle will require vigilance, perseverance and sacrifice for many years to come. ~Paul Cellucci

My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you've got to be a filmmaker. ~Robert Wise

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Never stop pedaling to power your dreams. ~Terri Guillemets

Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius. ~Georges-Louis Leclerc

No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance. ~Ramana Maharshi

Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain. ~Author Unknown

Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions. ~Lao Tzu

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One may go a long way after one is tired. ~French Proverb

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. ~John Quincy Adams

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them. ~G.B. Shaw

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily. ~Zig Ziglar

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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

Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success. ~Ambrose Bierce

Perseverance and perspective until victory. ~Lincoln Diaz-Balart

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 is a virtue that cannot be understated. ~Bob Riley

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Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire. ~William Godwin

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th. ~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 the other. ~Walter Elliot

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did. ~Newt Gingrich

Perseverance, secret of all triumphs. ~Victor Hugo

Perseverance... keeps honor bright: to have done, is to hang quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail in monumental mockery. ~William Shakespeare

Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines. ~Robert Schuller

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Saints are sinners who kept on going. ~Robert Louis Stevenson

Pull yourself together and use what you have. ~Betsy Cañas Garmon

Sometimes you must cross a bridge and other times you need to burn it. But, always keep building one and never lose your faith in life. ~Dodinsky

Stubbornly persist, and you will find that the limits of your stubbornness go well beyond the stubbornness of your limits. ~Robert Brault

Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours. ~Orison Swett Marden

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Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. ~William Feather

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 dreams of the broken are mightier than the wishes of the dead. ~Dodinsky

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

The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground. ~Author Unknown

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The road to perseverance lies by doubt. ~Francis Quarles

The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking places. ~Author Unknown

The stubbornness I had as a child has been transmitted into perseverance. I can let go but I don't give up. I don't beat myself up about negative things. ~Phylicia Rashad

The U.S. Olympic spirit award is an award that is given to an athlete who embodies the Olympic spirit in more ways than just on the playing field, in showing incredible perseverance, in overcoming obstacles, and what we wanted to do is have everybody can vote on-line. ~Brian Boitano

There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time. ~Sophie Swetchine

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There is no telling how many miles you will have to run while chasing a dream. ~Author Unknown

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure. ~Benjamin Disraeli

'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause, and of obstinacy in a bad one. ~Laurence Stern

To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by. ~Stephen Baker

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald

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What everyone in the astronaut corps shares in common is not gender or ethnic background, but motivation, perseverance, and desire - the desire to participate in a voyage of discovery. ~Ellen Ochoa

What I love about the East End is that there's a great perseverance, determination and courage. What I dislike about it is that there is sometimes a celebration of ignorance. ~Eddie Marsan

What it is saying is that someone who was a world champion and who takes care of himself with a 17-year rest and applies the proper training techniques and perseverance could be successful. ~Mark Spitz

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

When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum. ~Author Unknown

Who of us is able to read and understand and be entirely confident of the validity of his title to the land he lives on, and which he has redeemed from a state of nature by the most indefatigable industry and perseverance? ~William H. Wharton

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Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry. ~Samuel Smiles

With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable. ~Thomas Foxwell Buxton

You aren't going to find anybody that's going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance. ~Lou Holtz

You can't go through life quitting everything. If you're going to achieve anything, you've got to stick with something. ~Family Matters TV Show

You learn you can do your best even when it's hard, even when you're tired and maybe hurting a little bit. It feels good to show some courage. ~Joe Namath






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