Perseverance Quotations
Authors that have more than 2 quotes:
Ben Stein
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| Difficult things take a long time, impossible things a little longer. |
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| Don't be discouraged. It's often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock. |
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| I may not be there yet, but I'm closer than I was yesterday. |
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| 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. |
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| The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground. |
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| The race is not always to the swift... but to those who keep on running. |
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| The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking places. |
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| There is no telling how many miles you will have to run while chasing a dream. |
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| When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum. |
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| When the world says, "Give up," Hope whispers, "Try it one more time." |
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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 |
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| Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. |
| - Josh Billings |
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| 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 |
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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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| Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. |
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings. |
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. |
| - William Feather |
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| Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. |
| - F. Scott Fitzgerald |
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| But the moment you turn a corner you see another straight stretch ahead and there comes some further challenge to your ambition. |
| - Oliver Wendell, Sr. Holmes |
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| Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you. |
| - William James |
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| 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 |
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| The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling. |
| - Lucretius |
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| Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting. |
| - Christopher Morley |
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| Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use. |
| - Earl Nightingale |
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| A door opens to me. I go in and am faced with a hundred closed doors. |
| - Antonio Porchia |
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| If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking. |
| - Buddhist Proverb |
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| One may go a long way after one is tired. |
| - French Proverb |
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| Fall seven times, stand up eight. |
| - Japanese Proverb |
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| When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. |
| - Franklin D. Roosevelt |
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| Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines. |
| - Robert H. Schuller |
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| 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. |
| - George Bernard Shaw |
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| It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders. |
| - Ben Stein |
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| Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars. |
| - Ben Stein |
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| Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember. |
| - Ben Stein |
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| Saints are sinners who kept on going. |
| - Robert Louis Stevenson |
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