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Hang in there. Hang in there because the greatest quarterbacks complete only six of 10 passes. The best basketball players make only 50% of their shots. The top oil companies, with all their geologists, drill 10 dry holes for every wet one. And even the most successful actors flunk 29 auditions for television commercials before they land one. So, HANG IN THERE.
-Anon.
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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is, that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
-Alexander Graham Bell
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Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
-Hal Borland
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Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.
-Marie Curie
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It's rest I want--there, I have said it out--
From cooking meals for hungry hired men
And washing dishes after them--from doing
Things over and over that just won't stay done.
By good rights I ought not to have so much
Put on me, but there seems no other way.
Len says one steady pull more ought to do it.
He says the best way out is always through.
And I agree to that, or in so far
As that I can see no way out but through--
Leastways for me--and then they'll be convinced.
http://melange.enigmatic.org/archive/2004-06/bestwayoutisthrough.php
-Robert Frost, A Servant to Servants, 1914
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Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
-Newt Gingrich
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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.
-Sydney J. Harris
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"Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit."
-Napoleon Hill
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We shall build on.
On through the cynic’s scorning,
On through the coward’s warning,
We shall build on.
Firm on the rock of ages,
City of saints and sages,
Laugh when the tempest rages,
We shall build on.
Christ, though our hands be bleeding,
Fears, though our flesh be pleading,
Still let us see Thee leading,
For we shall build on.
-Studdert Kennedy
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"If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'"
-Rudyard Kipling
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If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity, it would he this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, "I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me."
-Ann Landers
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A violent wind does not outlast the morning; a squall of rain does not outlast the day. Such is the course of Nature. And if Nature herself cannot sustain her efforts long, how much less can man!
-Lao-Tzu, Source: Lionel Giles translation [1905]
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Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop pedaling.
-Claude Pepper, (attributed)
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"Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown."
-H. Ross Perot
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"He conquers who endures."
-Persius
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Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.
-Plutarch, Life of Sertorius
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The two most powerful weapons are courage and persistence. Nothing can stop a person armed with both.
-Scott Sorrell
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"Illegitimis non carborundum."
Lat., "Don't let the bastards grind you down."
-Gen. Joseph Stilwell
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"When you get in a tight place and everything goes against you, until it seems as if you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time when the tide will turn."
-Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
-Denis Waitley
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You choose to go voluntarily into the fire. The blaze might well destroy you. But if you survive, every blow of the hammer will serve to shape your being. Every drop of water wrung from you will temper and strengthen your soul.
-Margaret Weis, Soulforge
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There is room in the halls of pleasure
For a long and lordly train,
But one by one we must all file on
Through the narrow aisles of pain.
-Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Solitude (last lines)
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We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
-Tobias Wolff, 'In Pharaoh's Army'
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Books about Persistence
