". . . Wait, my child, wait and work on. Patience, patience. . . . ."
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"When you feel gloomy, think what has been done within the last year. How, rising from nothing."
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"Joy and patience are far above our strength... We must persevere in prayer that he may not permit our hearts to faint... Prayer and perseverance are necessary in our daily conflicts. The best remedy to the weariness is diligence in prayer."
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"I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise."
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"No great thing is created suddenly."
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"Well begun is half done."
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"Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing."
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"I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance... Unless you have a lot of passion about this, you're not going to survive. You're going to give it up. So you've got to have an idea, or a problem or a wrong that you want to right that you're passionate about otherwise you're not going to have the perseverance to stick it through."
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"Try not to do too many things at once. Know what you want, the number one thing today and tomorrow. Persevere and get it done."
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"Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it's not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. it's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere."
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"The drop hollows out the stone not by strength, but by constant falling."
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"The world is full of educated derelicts."
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"Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the dreary intercourse of daily life, shall ever prevail against us."
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"Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer."
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"Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense."
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"I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000-step process."
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"You will make some mistakes but, if you learn from those mistakes, those mistakes will become wisdom and wisdom is essential to becoming wealthy."
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"Every work has got to pass through hundreds of difficulties before succeeding. Those that persevere will see the light, sooner or later."
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"Prison itself is a tremendous education in the need for patience and perseverance. It is above all a test of one's commitment."
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"I've had a million setbacks along the way--from kiln fires burning down buildings to shipping disasters--that should have put me out of business, or at least left me lying in the fetal position on my bed for a few days. Luckily, though, I've never for one second thought that I had any other option than to just keep going."
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