Perseverance

(90 votes)   A man is not finished when he's defeated; he's finished when he quits.

Richard M. Nixon
1913-1994, Thirty-seventh President of the USA

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(80 votes)   All great achievements require time.

David J. Schwartz
American Trainer, Author of ''The Magic of Thinking Big''

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(43 votes)   And so to every man his chance, To every man regardless of his birth right, his shining golden opportunity; to every man the right to live, to work and to become whatever his vision and his manhood can combine to make him. This, Seeker, is the promise of America.

Thomas Wolfe
1900-1938 American novelist

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(50 votes)   And so to every man his chance, To every man regardless of his birth, his shining golden opportunity; to every man the right to live, to work, to be himself and to become whatever thing his vision and his manhood can combine to make him. This, Seeker, is the promise of America.

Thomas Wolfe
1900-1938 American novelist

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(50 votes)   Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(79 votes)   Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliance and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the ever lasting and sanctified bull doggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold.

Dr. A. B. Meldrum

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(289 votes)   Boys, there ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got the raw deals. You've got to say, ''I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it.'' It's called perseverance.

Lee Iacocca
1924-, American Businessman, Former CEO of Chrysler

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(47 votes)   By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(69 votes)   Champions keep playing until they get it right.

Billie Jean King
1943-, American Tennis Player

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(35 votes)   Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.

E. Joseph Cossman
American Businessman, Author, Lecturer

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(332 votes)   Don't halt before you are lame.

English Proverbs
Sayings of British Origin

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(45 votes)   Don't worry about genius. Don't worry about being clever. Trust to hard work, perseverance and determination. And the best motto for a long march is: ''Don't grumble. Plug on!''

Sir Thomas Treves

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(82 votes)   Endless opportunity is accessible to every man and woman alive. A notebook and a sharpened pencil.

Greg Evans
American Writer 1978-

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(71 votes)   Endurance is the crowning quality...

James Russell Lowell
1819-1891, American Poet, Critic, Editor

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

Ulysses S. Grant
1822-1885, American General, President

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