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"Success in any endeavor does not happen by accident. Rather, it’s the result of deliberate decisions, conscious effort, and immense persistence...all directed at specific goals."
"Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases."
"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent."
"The breeze of grace is always blowing; set your sail to catch that breeze."
"Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up."
"Character produces endurance and persistence when the going gets tough, and life truly is an endurance race, not a sprint."
"No great achievement is possible without persistent work."
"You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence."
"The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore."
"People who want to write either do it or they don't. At last I began to say that my most important talent - or habit - was persistence. Without it, I would have given up writing long before I finished my first novel. It's amazing what we can do if we simply refuse to give up."
"Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted; it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in which instinct has learned nothing from experience."
"... active love is a harsh and fearful thing compared with the love in dreams. Love in dreams thirsts for immediate action, quickly performed, and with everyone watching. Indeed, it will go as far as the giving even of one's life, provided it does not take long but is soon over, as on stage, and eveyone is looking on and praising. Whereas active love is labor and persistence, and for some people, perhaps, a whole science."
"For me, losing a tennis match isn't failure, it's research."
"People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit."
"Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little."
"Persistence, persistence, and persistence. The Power can be created and maintained through daily practice - continuous effort."
"Persistence with patience and prayer pays with profits, prosperity and peace of mind."
"Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection."
"It's not what you start in life, it's what you finish."
"Your persistence is your belief in yourself."
