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"The finest virtues can become deformed with age. The precise mind becomes finicky; the thrifty man, miserly; the cautious man, timorous; the man of imagination, fanciful. Even perseverance ends up in a sort of stupidity. Just as, on the other hand, being too willing to understand too many opinions, too diverse ways of seeing, constancy is lost and the mind goes astray in a restless fickleness."
"By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great."
"Evil company is always to be shunned; because it leads to lust and anger, illusion, forgetfulness of the goal, destruction of the will (lack of perseverance), and destruction of everything. (Narada Bhakti Sutra)"
"This world is not for cowards. Do not try to fly. Look not for success or failure. Join yourself to the perfectly unselfish will and work on. Know that the mind which is born to succeed joins itself to a determined will and perseveres. You have the right to work, but do not become so degenerate as to look for results. Work incessantly, but see something behind the work. Even good deeds can find a man in great bondage. Therefore be not bound by good deeds or by desire for name and fame. Those who know this secret pass beyond this round of birth and death and become immortal."
"When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another."
"Every obstacle yields to stern resolve."
"My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure."
"I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance."
"The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider - and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation - persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree."
"Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable."
"The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job."
"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances."
"Studies indicate that the one quality all successful people have is persistence."
"The will must be stronger than the skill."
"Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately."
"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."
"Purity, patience and perseverance overcome all obstacles. All great things must of necessity be slow."
"Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it."
"I am thankful for the adversities, which have crossed my pathway, for they taught me tolerance, sympathy, self-control, perseverance and some other virtues I might never have known."
"If it takes a hundred years, it will be a pity, but I will not cease to work for it as long as I live."
