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Perseverance... keeps honor bright: to have done, is to hang quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail in monumental mockery.
Sep 26, 2025
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.
Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.
If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.
Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.
I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs.
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.
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
The miracle or the power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance under the promptings of a brave, determined spirit.
Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.
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, at whatever cost, must be attained.
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.
Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.
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.
The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.
The best way out is always through.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.
Success ... seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Nelson Mandela said: 'It always seems impossible until it's done.' Peace is possible.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success.
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.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
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