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Plodding wins the race.
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Persevere and get it done.
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One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.
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People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
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Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.
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You win some, you lose some, and some get rained out, but you gotta suit up for them all.
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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
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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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Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. [James 1:4]
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A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.
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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.
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My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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Never give up. Keep your thoughts and your mind always on the goal.
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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.
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A jug fills drop by drop.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.
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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.
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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.
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Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.
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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.
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Never, never, never, never give up.
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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.
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Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way.
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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.
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You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round.
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They, that unnamed they, they've knocked me down but I got up. I always get up -- and I swear when I went down quite often I took the fall; nothing moves a mountain but itself. They, I've long ago named them me.
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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.
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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!
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Plenty of men can do good work for a spurt and with immediate promotion in mind, but for promotion you want a man in whom good work has become a habit.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.
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It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
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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.
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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.
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Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.
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By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great.
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The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.
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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.
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To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.
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God Almighty hates a quitter.
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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.
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Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
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We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
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Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.
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Perseverance gives power to weakness, and opens to poverty the world's wealth. It spreads fertility over the barren landscape, and buds the choicest flowers and fruits spring up and flourish in the desert abode of thorns and briars.
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To be somebody you must last.
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Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, accomplished.
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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.
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It matters if you just don't give up.
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Paralyze resistance with persistence.
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There's only one way you can fail, and that's to quit.
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If you've got the guts to stick it out... you're going to make it.
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The man who gives up accomplishes nothing and is only a hindrance. The man who does not give up can move mountains.
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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.
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I'm proof that great things can happen to ordinary people if they work hard and never give up.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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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.
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The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
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Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.
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Success... seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
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The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
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If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do succeed.
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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?
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Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.
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We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.
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Champions keep playing until they get it right.
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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!
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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.
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