Perseverance

(33 votes)   If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1819-1892, American Poet

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(31 votes)   Not every one of our desires can be immediately gratified. We've got to learn to wait patiently for our dreams to come true, especially on the path we've chosen.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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(31 votes)   You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.

Rene Mcpherson

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(30 votes)   I never thought I didn't have a card to play.

Jim Lovell
1928-, American Astronaut

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(30 votes)   If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do succeed.

Curly Howard

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(30 votes)   When the going gets tough, the tough hang in there.

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(29 votes)   I'm proof that great things can happen to ordinary people if they work hard and never give up.

Orel Herhiser
American Baseball Player

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(29 votes)   If you've got the guts to stick it out... you're going to make it.

Brian Hays

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(29 votes)   There's only one way you can fail, and that's to quit.

Brian Hays

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(28 votes)   There is genius in persistence. It conquers all opposers. It gives confidence. It annihilates obstacles. Everybody believes in a determined man. People know that when he undertakes a thing, the battle is half won, for his rule is to accomplish whatever he sets out to do.

Orison Swett Marden
1850-1924, American Author, Founder of Success Magazine

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