persistence quotes

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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Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

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It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.

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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. John P. Weiss about persistence in life.

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Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

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

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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. Failing for Success

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I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

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No dream became destiny without plans and persistence.

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Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

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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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The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.

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

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Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

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It matters if you just don't give up.

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How long should you try? Until.

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

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Either I will find away or I will make one

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We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.

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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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The darkest hour is just before the dawn.

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop pedaling.

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

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Champions keep playing until they get it right.

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The Extra Mile will have no traffic jams.

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Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality the other, a matter of time.

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

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The two most powerful weapons are courage and persistence. Nothing can stop a person armed with both.

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

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Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.

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Persevere and get it done.

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He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

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No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.

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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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Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation.

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

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Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

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Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean.

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

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The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.

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

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I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

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

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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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If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do succeed.

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We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

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

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

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All great achievements require time.

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The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

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You just can't beat the person who never gives up.

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Quit now, you'll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you'll be halfway there.

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

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I am a kind of burr; I shall stick.

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Constant repetition of tongue-twisters was like lifting weights for me, but patience and persistence have paid off.

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

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Persevere in virtue and diligence.

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

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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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Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.

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

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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.

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

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

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By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

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The only way to overcome is to hang in.

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

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The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.

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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

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

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There are no traffic jams in the second mile.

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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.

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Don't halt before you are lame.

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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.

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Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the next time out.

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To be somebody you must last.

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

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Paralyze resistance with persistence.

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When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row.

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Failure cannot cope with persistence.

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Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

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

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

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The art of love is largely the art of persistence.

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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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If someone takes your coat, give him your cloak as well; if he makes you go a mile with him, go with him two. Mathew

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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.

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

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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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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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A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

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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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Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

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Endurance is the crowning quality...

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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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Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, accomplished.

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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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Diligence is the mother of good luck.

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That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. and the best of me is diligence.

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