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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
-Edmund Burke
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With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.
-Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
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Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.
-Thomas Carlyle
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Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
-Miguel de Cervantes
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Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.
-Lord Chesterfield
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Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves.
-Sir Winston Churchill
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Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way.
-Jeremy Collier
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The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
-Confucius
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Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
-Calvin Coolidge
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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
-Calvin Coolidge
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You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round.
-James J. Corbett
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They, that unnamed they, they've knocked me down but I got up. I always get up -- and I swear when I went down quite often I took the fall; nothing moves a mountain but itself. They, I've long ago named them me.
-Gregory Corso
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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
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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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If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, Here comes number seventy-one!
-Richard M. DeVos
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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
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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
-Thomas Alva Edison
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Nearly every man who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. that's not the place to become discouraged.
-Thomas Alva Edison
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When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.
-Thomas Alva Edison
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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
-Thomas Alva Edison
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Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.
-Edward Eggleston
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It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
-Albert Einstein
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I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
-Albert Einstein
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I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
-George Eliot
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Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.
-Walter Elliott
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Books about Persistence
