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| The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t. ~ Henry Ward Beecher |
| The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking places. ~ Author Unknown |
When the world says, "Give up,"
Hope whispers, "Try it one more time."
~ Author Unknown |
| Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves. ~ Dale Carnegie |
| Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain. ~ Author Unknown |
| When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. ~ Josh Billings |
| The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground. ~ Author Unknown |
| Fall seven times, stand up eight. ~ Japanese Proverb |
| 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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| If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again. ~ Flavia Weedn, |
| He conquers who endures. ~ Persius |
| Stubbornly persist, and you will find that the limits of your stubbornness go well beyond the stubbornness of your limits. ~ Robert Brault |
| You can’t go through life quitting everything. If you’re going to achieve anything, you’ve got to stick with something. ~ From the television show |
| I frequently-regularly-often trip while reaching for my high ideals. Then I giggle, or cry, and get back up. ~ Erika Harris |
| The race is not always to the swift, but to those who keep on running. ~ Author unknown, in reference to Ecclesiastes 9:11, |
| It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer. ~ Albert Einstein |
| Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another. ~ Walter Elliott, |
| People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them. ~ G.B. Shaw, |
| There is no telling how many miles you will have to run while chasing a dream. ~ Author Unknown |
| Perseverance… keeps honor bright: to have done, is to hang quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail in monumental mockery. ~ William Shakespeare |
| The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling. ~ Lucretius |
| But the moment you turn a corner you see another straight stretch ahead and there comes some further challenge to your ambition. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| Don’t be discouraged. It’s often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock. ~ Author Unknown |
| The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Saints are sinners who kept on going. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson |
| If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking. ~ Buddhist Saying |
| I may not be there yet, but I’m closer than I was yesterday. ~ Author Unknown |
| Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down. ~ Charles F. Kettering |
| One may go a long way after one is tired. ~ French Proverb |