Perseverance

(479 votes)   The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit.

Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(452 votes)   Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never, never -- in nothing great or small, large or petty. Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.

Winston Churchill
1874-1965, British Statesman, Prime Minister

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(376 votes)   You win some, you lose some, and some get rained out, but you gotta suit up for them all.

J. Askenberg

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(357 votes)   Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You would be surprised to find how far off they are, for they do not look it. When they first showed last night I tried to knock some down with a pole, but it didn't reach, which astonished me. Then I tried clods till I was all tired out, but I never got one. I did make some close shots, for I saw the black blot of the clod sail right into thee midst of the golden clusters forty or fifty times, just barely missing them, and if I could've held out a little longer, maybe I could've got one.

Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(331 votes)   Don't halt before you are lame.

English Proverbs
Sayings of British Origin

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(319 votes)   We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.

Christian Nevell Bovee
1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer

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(317 votes)   Fall seven times and stand up eight.

Japanese Proverbs
Sayings of Japanese Origin

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(311 votes)   If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, ''Here comes number seventy-one!''

Richard M. DeVos
1926-, American Businessman, Co-founder of Amway Corp.

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(288 votes)   Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Calvin Coolidge
1872-1933, Thirtieth President of the USA

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(287 votes)   Boys, there ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got the raw deals. You've got to say, ''I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it.'' It's called perseverance.

Lee Iacocca
1924-, American Businessman, Former CEO of Chrysler

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(287 votes)   Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

John Lyly
c.1554-1606, British Writer

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(284 votes)   It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.

Babe Ruth
1895-1948, American Baseball Player

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(269 votes)   The snow was falling heavily outside. I sat before a blank page for close to ten hours. I refused to get up; instead attempted with great pains to coerce stubborn thoughts from my noodle. Useless it seemed until the 11th hour and then all I'd seen and felt and heard, arrived, and was transcribed effortlessly like the tune of chirping birds.

Greg Evans
American Writer 1978-

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(256 votes)   I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

John D. Rockefeller
1839-1937, American Industrialist, Philanthropist, Founder Exxon

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(252 votes)   I am confident. I never give up.

Arantxa Sanchez Vicario
1972-, Spanish Tennis Player

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