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Persisting

Persevering on a task even though the resolution is not immediately apparent. Stick to it!
Be like a postage stamp—stick to one thing until you get there.
Margaret Carty
Failed in business, 1831 Defeated for legislature, 1832 Again failed in business, 1833 Elected to legislature, 1834 Defeated for Speaker, 1838 Defeated for elector, 1840 Defeated for Congress, 1843 Elected to Congress, 1846 Defeated for Congress, 1848 Defeated for Senate, 1855 Defeated for vice-president, 1858 Defeated for Senate, 1858 Elected President of the United States, 1860
Abraham Lincoln
Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
Napolean Hill, author
Every day you miss playing or practicing is one day longer it takes to be good.
Ben Hogan, Golfer
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 failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Calvin Coolidge
Faith that the thing can be done is essential to any great achievement.
Thomas N. Carruther
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
Abraham Lincoln
Tribulation produces perseverance; and perseverance, character; and character, hope.
Romans
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
Lucretius
All effort is in the last analysis sustained by faith that it is worth making.
Ordway Tweed
When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, everyday a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.
Isak Dinesen
Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
Douglas MacArthur
I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life like a champion.'
Muhammad Ali
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
In the realm of ideas, everything depends on enthusiasm; in the real world, all rests on perseverance.
Goethe
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
John Quincy Adams
To be able to concentrate for a considerable time is essential to difficult achievement.
Bertrand Russell
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 70 times and get up off the floor saying, 'Here comes number 71!'
Richard M. Devos
Mastery is not something that strikes in an instant, like a thunderbolt, but gathering a power that moves steadily through time, like weather.
John W Gardner
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you will treat the whole world as if it were a nail.
Edward de Bono
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most often makes for success.
Dale Carnegie
Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time.
Marabel Morgan
Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
Christopher Morely
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie
It takes a long time to become young.
Pablo Picasso
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