"Energy and persistence conquer all things."
--Benjamin Franklin
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
--Winston Churchill
"Defeat is simply a signal to press onward."
--Helen Keller
"Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over."
--F. Scott Fitzgerald
"To create a little flower is the labour of ages."
--William Blake
"Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working."
--Unknown Author
"Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance"
--Samuel Johnson
"For all things difficult to acquire, the intelligent man works with perseverance."
--Lao Tzu
"Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines."
--Robert Schuller
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on."
--Robert Frost
"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
"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other"
--Walter Elliot
"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."
--Albert Einstein
"A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success."
--Elbert Hubbard
"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"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
"Stubbornly persist, and you will find that the limits of your stubbornness go well beyond the stubbornness of your limits."
--Robert Brault
"Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times."
--Napoleon Hill
"Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go."
--William Feather
"I frequently-regularly-often trip while reaching for my high ideals. Then I giggle, or cry, and get back up."
--Erika Harris
"In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins- not through strength but by perseverance."
--H. Jackson Brown
"Victory belongs to the most persevering."
--Napoleon Bonaparte
"Fall seven times, stand up eight."
--Japanese Proverb
"To believe in yourself and to follow your dreams, to have goals in life and a drive to succeed, and to surround yourself with the things and the people that make you happy -this is success!"
--Sasha Azevedo
"With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable."
--Thomas Foxwell Buxton
"Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul."
--Douglas MacArthur
"Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death"
--Albert Einstein
When the world says, "Give up,"
Hope whispers, "Try it one more time."
--Author Unknown
"The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling."
--Lucretius
"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
"Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there."
--Josh Billings
"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
"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
"Saints are sinners who kept on going."
--Robert Louis Stevenson
"He conquers who endures."
--Persius
"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
"Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did."
--Newt Gingrich
"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
"Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield."
--Benjamin Franklin
"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
"When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."
--Franklin D. Roosevelt
"It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married."
--Robert Frost
"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 fail and keep trying."
--Tom Hopkins
"The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"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, at whatever cost, must be attained."
--Marie Curie
The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground.
--Author Unknown
"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
I may not be there yet, but I'm closer than I was yesterday.
--Author Unknown
"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
"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.
"By perseverance the snail reached the ark."
--Charles H. Spurgeon
"Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th."
--Julie Andrews
"Perseverance... keeps honor bright: to have done, is to hang quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail in monumental mockery."
--William Shakespeare
"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
"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
"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 has taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
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