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Persisting

Persevering on a task even though the resolution is not immediately apparent. Stick to it!
I think there are two keys to being creatively productive. One is not being daunted by one's fear of failure. The second is sheer perseverance.
Mary-Claire King
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
Japanese Proverb
Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
Newt Gingrich
It's always too soon to quit!
Norman Vincent Peale
The true art of memory is the art of attention.
Samuel Johnson
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
Benjamin Franklin
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Albert Einstein, Physicist and Teacher
The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second, which comes with a sort of mastery.
Janet Erskine Stuart, Educator
Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.
Samuel Johnson
Greatness comes with recognizing that your potential is limited only by how you choose, how you use your freedom, how resolute you are, how persistent you are - in short, by your attitude.
Peter Koestenbaum, Philosopher
No matter how big and tough a problem may be, get rid of confusion by taking one little step towards solution. Do something. Then try again. At the worst, so long as you don't do it the same way twice, you will eventually use up all the wrong ways of doing it and thus the next try will be the right one.
George F. Nordenhold
Either I will find a way, or I will make one.
Philip Sidney
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Albert Einstein
In the struggle between the stone and the water, in time, the water wins.
Chinese proverb
Don't be discouraged. It's often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.
Anon.
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.
Isak Dinesen (pseudonym for Karen Blixen), Danish Writer
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor and Actor
The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.
Roger Bannister
To give yourself the best possible chance of playing to your potential, you must prepare for every eventuality. That means practice.
Steve Ballesteros, Professional Golfer
Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.
John Cage
Diligence is the mother of good luck.
Benjamin Franklin
The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed up in these two - commonsense and perseverance.
Owen Feltham, Writer
Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
James A. Michener
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