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Persistent
people begin their success
where others end in failure.
Edward
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When
I look at the kids training today. . . I can tell which ones
are going to do well.
It’s not necessarily the ones who have
the most natural talent or who fall the least.
Sometimes it’s the
kids who fall the most, and keep pulling themselves up and trying
again.
Michelle Kwan
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Be of good cheer. Do not think of today’s failures, but of the success
that may come tomorrow. You
have set yourselves a difficult task,
but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find joy in
overcoming
obstacles. Remember,
no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.
Helen Keller
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Nothing
in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will
not;
nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.
Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not;
the world is filled with educated derelicts.
Perseverance and determination alone are omnipotent.
Calvin
Coolidge
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When nothing seems to
help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away
at a 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
that blow that
did it--but all that had gone before.
Jacob
Riis
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The
heights by great ones reached and kept
Were not attained by sudden flight,
But they, while their companions slept,
Were toiling upward in the night.
Henry
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I am not discouraged, because every wrong
attempt
discarded is another step forward.
Thomas A. Edison
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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.
Marie
Curie
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The
Village Blacksmith
Under a spreading chestnut-tree
The village smithy stands;
The smith, a mighty man is he,
With large and sinewy hands;
And the muscles of his brawny arms
Are strong as iron bands.
His hair is crisp, and black, and long,
His face is like the tan;
His brow is wet with honest sweat,
He earns whate'er he can,
And looks the whole world in the face,
For he owes not any man.
Week in, week out, from morn till night,
You can hear his bellows blow;
You can hear him swing his heavy sledge,
With measured beat and slow,
Like a sexton ringing the village bell,
When the evening sun is low.
And children coming home from school
Look in at the open door;
They love to see the flaming forge,
And hear the bellows roar,
And catch the burning sparks that fly
Like chaff from a threshing-floor.
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He goes on Sunday to the church,
And sits among his boys;
He hears the parson pray and preach,
He hears his daughter's voice,
Singing in the village choir,
And it makes his heart rejoice.
It sounds to him like her mother's voice,
Singing in Paradise!
He needs must think of her once more,
How in the grave she lies;
And with his haul, rough hand he wipes
A tear out of his eyes.
Toiling,--rejoicing,--sorrowing,
Onward through life he goes;
Each morning sees some task begin,
Each evening sees it close
Something attempted, something done,
Has earned a night's repose.
Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend,
For the lesson thou hast taught!
Thus at the flaming forge of life
Our fortunes must be wrought;
Thus on its sounding anvil shaped
Each burning deed and thought.
Henry
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Great
works are performed, not by strength,
but by perseverance. Those that walk with vigor,
three hours a day, will pass in seven years a space
equal to the circumference of the globe.
Samuel Johnson |
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One
of the simplest things about all facts of life is that
to get where you want to go, you must keep on keeping on.
Norman
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There
are two ways of attaining an important end--force and
perseverance.
Force falls to the lot of a privileged few, but austere and
sustained
perseverance by the insignificant--its silent power grows
irresistible with time.
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Big shots are only little shots who keep
shooting.
Christopher Morley |
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What
can people not accomplish if they will but master the
secret of steadfast perseverance.
Alice
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Success
depends upon staying power. The reason for failure
in most cases is lack of perseverance.
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People who have attained things worth having in
this world
have worked while others idled, have persevered when
others
gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the
valuable
habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of
purpose.
As a result,
they enjoy in later life the success so often
erroneously
attributed to good luck.
Grenville Kleiser |
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There
are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the
doing of great things: strength and perseverance.
Strength is
the lot of but a few privileged people; but austere perseverance,
harsh and continuous, may be employed by the least of us and
rarely
fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly
greater with time.
Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe
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Perseverance is a great element of success.
If you only knock
loud enough at the gate,
you are sure to wake up somebody.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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When
you get into a tight place and everything goes against you,
till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer,
never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the
tide will turn.
Harriet
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When
you put your hand to the plow,
you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row.
Alice
Paul |
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Think
of a fine painter attempting to capture an inner vision, beginning
with one corner of the canvas, painting what he or she thinks
should be
there, not quite pulling it off, covering it over with white
paint,
and trying again, each time finding out what the painting isn't,
until
he or she finally finds out what it is. And when you finally
do find out
what one corner of your vision is, you're off and running.
Anne
Lamott |
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Athletes
make their sports look easy because of the thousands
of hours of work that they've devoted to their sports. A
good
singer seems to be able to hit every note effortlessly only
because
he or she has spent countless hours practicing and learning and
practicing some more. When they become successful, it's easy
to call them lucky or to forget the amount of work that they've
put into their chosen field, but the fact is that they kept on
with
what they wanted to do and didn't give up.
tom walsh |
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Go
the extra mile. It's never crowded.
unattributed
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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.
Dale
Carnegie |
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And
I recall an account of Trollope going up to London to pick up a
rejected
manuscript from a publisher, getting on the train to return home,
laying the
bulky bundle on his lap face down, and beginning a new book on the
back pages of the rejected one.
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Whether
it's a career in the arts, sports, business, or the professions,
the way to perfect our skills is through diligent practice and
study
on a consistent basis. This means making the commitment to
develop our self-discipline and to persist and endure until the
goal
is met. This commitment to "finish the race" may
not always be
easy. There are often occasions when we may be tempted to
spend valuable time pursuing those interests that give
pleasure while neglecting our long-range priorities.
John Marks
Templeton
Worldwide Laws of Life |
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It is not so much
brillancy of intellect, or fertility of resource, as
persistency of effort, constancy of purpose, that makes a great
person.
Persistency always gives confidence. Everybody believes in
the people
who persist. They may meet misfortunes, sorrows, and
reverses, but
everybody believes that they will ultimately triumph because they
know
there is no keeping them down. "Do they keep at
it? are they persistent?"
are the questions which the world asks about us.
Even the person with small ability will often succeed if he or she
has
the quality of persistence, where a genius without persistence
would fail.
Orison
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"When I was a young man," he
said, "the last wolf in this part of the
country was hunted down and killed. The newcomers to this
land
brought their long-held fears of the wolf with them. The
newcomers
thought, and still think, that the wolf was successful because he
loved
to kill and was good at it. To them, he was evil and had to
be killed.
They didn't realize that he failed more than he succeeded.
He went
hungry eight or nine times out of ten because his prey got
away. When
he finally succeeded the tenth time, he satisfied his
hunger. What others
saw as a lust for killing was really perseverance. That was
the secret
of his success: He never quit."
Joseph M. Marshall III |
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In the confrontation between the stream and the
rock, the stream always
wins--not through strength but by perseverance.
H. Jackson Brown |
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