Albert Einstein
Physicist
"Success comes from curiosity, concentration, perseverance and self criticism."
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Perseverance
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George Bernard Shaw
Playwright, Critic
"People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it."
Indira Gandhi
Politician
"Opportunities are not offered. They must be wrested and worked for. And this calls for perseverance... and courage."
B. F. Skinner
Psychologist, Behaviorist
"A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying."
Haile Selassie
Emperor
"Imagination, devotion, perseverance, together with divine grace, will assure your success."
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"Purity, patience and perseverance are the three essentials to success and above all love."
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"We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves."
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"What worries you, masters you."
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"Perfect health, sincerity, honesty, straightforwardness, courage, disinterestedness, unselfishness, patience, endurance, perseverance, peace, calm, self control are all things that are taught infinitely better by example than by beautiful speeches."
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"Character, courage, industry and perseverance are the four pillars on which the whole edifice of human life can be built and failure is a word unknown to me."
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"No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance."
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"God allows us to give rise to the practice of two beautiful virtues: perseverance, which leads us to attain the goal, and constancy, which helps us to overcome difficulties."
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"Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. Amen."
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"You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing."
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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."
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"I always tell my kids if you lay down, people will step over you. But if you keep scrambling, if you keep going, someone will always, always give you a hand. Always. But you gotta keep dancing, you gotta keep your feet moving."
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"Milton Berle is an inspiration to every young person that wants to get into show business. Hard work, perseverance, and discipline: all the things you need...when you have no talent."
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"For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together."
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"Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake of the latter. The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude and perseverance. Let us remember that "if we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom," it is a very serious consideration that millions yet unborn may be the miserable sharers of the event."
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"If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud."
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"The real test is not whether you avoid failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it. . ."
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"Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence."
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"There is no substitute for hard work."
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"I have nothing in common with lazy people who blame others for their lack of success."
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"Infinite patience, infinite purity, and infinite perseverance are the secret of success in a good cause."
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