Perseverance

(189 votes)   No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.

Lord Alfred Tennyson
1809-1892, British Poet

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(146 votes)   When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Harriet Beecher Stowe
1811-1896, American Novelist, Antislavery Campaigner

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(103 votes)   To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forego even ambition when the end is gained -- who can say this is not greatness?

William M. Thackeray
1811-1863, Indian-born British Novelist

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(102 votes)   Never, never, never, never give up.

Winston Churchill
1874-1965, British Statesman, Prime Minister

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(93 votes)   You've got to say, ''I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it.'' It's called perseverance.

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

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(91 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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(85 votes)   Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

African Proverbs
Sayings of African Origin

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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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(80 votes)   All great achievements require time.

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

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(80 votes)   We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

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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(79 votes)   The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.

A. E. Housman
1859-1936, British Poet, Classical Scholar

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(78 votes)   Lots of people limit their possibilities by giving up easily. Never tell yourself this is too much for me. It's no use. I can't go on. If you do you're licked, and by your own thinking too. Keep believing and keep on keeping on.

Norman Vincent Peale
1898-1993, American Christian Reformed Pastor, Speaker, Author

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(75 votes)   Whatever honor there is in giving up, I want no part of.

Greg Evans
American Writer 1978-

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(72 votes)   Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall.

Sidney J. Harris
1917-, American Journalist

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