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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
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Life is not about how fast you run
or how high you climb
but how well you bounce.
- Vivian Komori
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb
Patience, persistence, and perseverance.
A little more each day, a little better each day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Nothing is softer or more flexible than water,
yet nothing can resist it.
- Lao Tzu
You are never given a wish without also
being given the power to make it true.
You may have to work for it, however.
- Richard Bach
Never, never, never give up.
- Winston Churchill
The probability that we may fail
in the struggle ought not to deter us
from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
- Abraham Lincoln
We can do anything we want to
if we stick to it long enough.
- Helen Keller
A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
- George Savile
Ideas, yes.
Inspiration, yes.
Creativity, yes.
Planning, yes.
Perseverance, yes.
More perseverance, yes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never give up on the most important goals in your life.
Never give up on your life purpose.
Never give up on your core values.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you find your path, you must not be afraid.
You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes.
Disappointment, defeat, and despair are
the tools God uses to show us the way.
- Paulo Coelho
There's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.
- the character Morpheus in the movie The Matrix
When the water starts boiling
it is foolish to turn off the heat.
- Nelson Mandela
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.
- Calvin Coolidge
It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
- Eddie Cantor
Keep moving. Don't stop. But don't rush.
Don't race around.
Sure and steady gets you there every time.
- Neale Donald Walsch
It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill
Genius is one percent inspiration
and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
- Thomas Edison
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
- Benjamin Franklin
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
- Benjamin Disraeli
You can have anything you want -
if you want it badly enough.
You can be anything you want to be,
do anything you set out to accomplish
if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
- Abraham Lincoln
If a warrior is to succeed at anything,
the success must come gently,
with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.
- Carlos Castaneda
No great thing is created suddenly.
- Epictetus
Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.
You have only to persevere to save yourselves.
- Winston Churchill
The price of success is hard work,
dedication to the job at hand,
and the determination that whether we win or lose,
we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
- Vince Lombardi
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman,
before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
- John Quincy Adams
The key to everything is patience.
You get the chicken by hatching the egg,
not by smashing it open.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.
- Virgil
The sum of wisdom is that
time is never lost that is devoted to work.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you get into a tight place
and everything goes against you,
till it seems you cannot hold on a minute longer,
never give up then, for that is just
the place and time the tide will turn.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
Patience, persistence and perspiration
make an unbeatable combination for success.
- Napoleon Hill
A little more persistence,
a little more effort, and
what seemed hopeless failure
may turn to glorious success.
- Elbert Hubbard
If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?
- Henry David Thoreau
I'm not a genius.
I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
I think and think for months and years.
Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false.
The hundredth time I am right.
- Albert Einstein
The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools,
but the gentle touches of air and water
working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
- Henry David Thoreau
Persistence prevails when all else fails.
- Anonymous
The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
- Herbert Kaufman
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.
- Napoleon Hill
Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience.
Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
- Hal Borland
The art of love is largely the art of persistence.
- Albert Ellis
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence,
is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
- Dale Carnegie
Balance activity with serenity,
wealth with simplicity,
persistence with innovation,
community with solitude,
familiarity with adventure,
constancy with change,
leading with following.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Success is the result of perfection,
hard work,
learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
- Colin Powell
What staggers me is not the persistence of illusion,
but the persistence of the world in the face of illusion.
- A. G. Mojtabai
Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence.
The extra energy required to make another effort or
try another approach is the secret of winning.
- Denis Waitley
I rewrote it and I took all your notes.
Read it again, that kind of persistence paid off.
- David Steinberg
When I meet successful people I ask 100 questions as
to what they attribute their success to.
It is usually the same: persistence,
hard work and hiring good people.
- Kiana Tom
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is
the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
- Napoleon Hill
Writing is the only thing I've ever done with persistence,
except for being married.
- Richard Ford
Paralyze resistance with persistence.
- Woody Hayes
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition.
The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
- Herbert Kaufman
Ambition is the path to success.
Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.
- Bill Bradley
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
- Napoleon Hill
To make our way, we must have firm resolve,
persistence, tenacity.
We must gear ourselves to work hard all the way.
We can never let up.
- Ralph Bunche
Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win.
Let not the man be discouraged who has these.
- James Whitcomb Riley
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny,
we will continue to grow.
We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom.
It happens in its own time.
- Denis Waitley
When we say that the persistence of competition is ensured by fate,
we mean that individual freedom is so guaranteed.
The one thing to which fate binds us is liberty.
- John Bates Clark
Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.
- Anthony J. D'Angelo
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.
- James Whitcomb Riley
Film editing is now something almost everyone can do
at a simple level and enjoy it,
but to take it to a higher level requires the same
dedication and persistence that any art form does.
- Walter Murch
You don't start out writing good stuff.
You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff,
and then gradually you get better at it.
That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.
- Octavia Butler
As for goals, I don't set myself those anymore.
I'm not one of these 'I must have achieved this and
that by next year' kind of writers.
I take things as they come and find that patience and
persistence tend to win out in the end.
- Paul Kane
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.
- Bjorn Borg
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
The real issue is not talent as an independent element,
but talent in relationship to will, desire,
and persistence.
Talent without these things vanishes and even modest
talent with those characteristics grows.
- Milton Glaser
This persistence as private firms continued because
it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to
persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public
knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation.
- Carroll Quigley
Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses,
can persist even after sexual desires have weakened,
withered, and disappeared.
- Mortimer Adler
The true secret of giving advice is,
after you have honestly given it,
to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not,
and never persist in trying to set people right.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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