Perseverance

(44 votes)   In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed.

William Ernest Henley
1849-1903, British Poet, Critic, Editor

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(44 votes)   One should act in consonance with the way of heaven and earth, which is enduring and eternal. The superior man perseveres long in his course, adapts to the times, but remains firm in his direction and correct in his goals.

I Ching
12th Century BC, Chinese Book of Changes

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(44 votes)   Part of perseverance is knowing what you want. Indecision is as useful as road signs in Spain written in Dutch.

Greg Evans
American Writer 1978-

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(44 votes)   Quit now, you'll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you'll be halfway there.

David Zucker

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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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(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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(43 votes)   Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. [James 1:4]

Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism

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(43 votes)   Plenty of men can do good work for a spurt and with immediate promotion in mind, but for promotion you want a man in whom good work has become a habit.

Henry L. Doherty
1870-1939, American Utilities Executive/Engineer

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(43 votes)   This I do know beyond any reasonable doubt. Regardless of what you are doing, if you pump long enough, hard enough and enthusiastically enough, sooner or later the effort will bring forth the reward.

Zig Ziglar
American Sales Trainer, Author, Motivational Speaker

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(42 votes)   The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.

Ted W. Engstrom
American Religion and Social Leader

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(42 votes)   When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

Jacob Riis

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(41 votes)   Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(41 votes)   I never gave up, even when people told me I'd never make it.

Bob Wickman
1969-, American Baseball Player

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(41 votes)   Never despair, keep pushing on!

Sir Thomas Lipton

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(41 votes)   Perseverance gives power to weakness, and opens to poverty the world's wealth. It spreads fertility over the barren landscape, and buds the choicest flowers and fruits spring up and flourish in the desert abode of thorns and briars.

Samuel G. Goodrich
1793-1860, American Publisher, Writer

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