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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 road to success is dotted with many tempting parking places.
~Author Unknown
When the world says, "Give up,"
Hope whispers, "Try it one more time."
~Author Unknown
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
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
When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
~Franklin D. Roosevelt
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability
to stick to one thing till it gets there. ~Josh Billings
Fall seven times, stand up eight. ~Japanese Proverb
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, Flavia and the Dream Maker
He conquers who endures. ~Persius
Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing
the hard work you already did. ~Newt Gingrich
The race is not always to the swift, but to those who keep on
running. ~Author Unknown, in reference to Ecclesiastes 9:11, "I
returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift,
nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet
riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but
time and chance happeneth to them all."
You can't go through life quitting everything. If you're going to
achieve anything, you've got to stick with something. ~From the
television show Family Matters
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems
longer. ~Albert Einstein
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after
another. ~Walter Elliott, The Spiritual Life
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, Mrs. Warren's
Profession, 1893
There is no telling how many miles you will have to run while
chasing a dream. ~Author Unknown
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by
oft falling. ~Lucretius
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.
Don't be discouraged. It's often the last key in the bunch that
opens the lock. ~Author Unknown
The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings. ~Ralph Waldo
Emerson
Saints are sinners who kept on going. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep
on walking. ~Buddhist Saying
I may not be there yet, but I'm closer than I was yesterday.
~Author Unknown
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
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
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines. ~Robert Schuller
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to
start over. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are
attainable. ~Thomas Foxwell Buxton
When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum. ~Author Unknown
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out
they've got a second. ~William James
Difficult things take a long time, impossible things a little
longer. ~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
A door opens to me. I go in and am faced with a hundred closed
doors. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by
W.S. Merwin
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have
let go. ~William Feather
Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting. ~Christopher
Morley
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
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