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• Someone said adversity builds character, but someone else said adversity reveals character. Im pleasantly surprised with my resilience. I persevere, and not just blindly. I take the best, get rid of the rest, and move on, realizing that you can make a choice to take the good.

  Brooke Shields

  Moving, Character, Adversity

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• So it follows that those who have reason have freedom to will or not to will, although this freedom is not equal in all of them. [...] human souls are more free when they persevere in the contemplation of the mind of God, less free when they descend to the corporeal, and even less free when they are entirely imprisoned in earthly flesh and blood.

  Boethius

  Blood, Soul, Mind

  Boethius, David R Slavitt (2008). “The Consolation of Philosophy”, p.150, Harvard University Press

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• Lasting solutions are always difficult to come to. But they will have to persevere. I've been repeating ad nauseam that we in Burma we are weak with regard to the culture of negotiated compromises, that we have to develop the ability to achieve such compromises.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Culture, Compromise, Achieve

  Source: www.voanews.com

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• I practice Transcendental Meditation and I had enough exercise. I am one who thinks that not only need to have patience, we must persevere. If you do it right you'll see results.

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Exercise, Thinking, Practice

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• I know a lot of Christians who have been in ministry and walked away from it because the pressure can be too great. And there's a lot of Christians who at the same time would say like well why does God do [certain things]. What I found is Christians regardless of whatever their experience is who trust God more and learn to go through those moments of challenge and persevere. Usually the end result is an experience and interaction with the Holy Spirit that's greater than it was previously. And for me, there is no pursuit that I desire or enjoy more than that interaction.

  Stephen Baldwin

  Christian, Challenges, Desire

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• We must not in the course of public life expect immediate approbation and immediate grateful acknowledgment of our services. But let us persevere through abuse and even injury. The internal satisfaction of a good conscience is always present, and time will do us justice in the minds of the people, even those at present the most prejudiced against us.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Grateful, People, Justice

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.202

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• If you face life without confidence in your own powers, you succumb too easily to setbacks and adversity; you lack the will to persevere.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Confidence, Adversity, Faces

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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• I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.

  Jules Verne

  Without Hope, Hope Of Success, I Can

  Jules Verne (2016). “The Mysterious Island (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.7, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• Revolutionary war is an antitoxin that not only eliminates the enemy's poison but also purges us of our own filth. Every just, revolutionary war is endowed with tremendous power and can transform many things or clear the way for their transformation. The Sino-Japanese war will transform both China and Japan; provided China perseveres in the War of Resistance and in the united front, the old Japan will surely be transformed into a new Japan and the old China into a new China, and people and everything else in both China and Japan will be transformed during and after the war.

  Mao Zedong

  Peace, War, Japan

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• Vocations are born in prayer and from prayer; and only in prayer can they persevere and bear fruit.

  Pope Francis

  Prayer, Fruit, Bears

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• I am almost certain fishermen posess a peculiar bend to their makeup. Fisherman are optimists, and the fish in the future is always preferable to the fish at hand. Even the best fishermen catch fish only a small percentage of the time, which means we persevere in a sport that features failure as its main ingredient. Truly great days, when the fish hammer the fly as soon as it lands on the water are rare.

  Joseph Monninger

  Sports, Mean, Makeup

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• It's hard to make a living in any of the arts. When most people think of artists, they think of the stars and the celebrities. But that's such a tiny minority of the elites who are able to make those millions of dollars. The reality is that it's very hard for the rest to make a living as an artist. So, you really have to persevere and understand that achieving the sort of success where you're making the big money is like winning the lottery.

  Isabella Rossellini

  Art, Stars, Reality

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• One must exploit the asynchronies that have befallen one, link them to a promising issue or domain, reframe frustrations as opportunities, and, above all, persevere.

  Howard Gardner

  Frustration, Opportunity, Issues

  Howard Gardner (1998). “Extraordinary Minds: Portraits Of 4 Exceptional Individuals And An Examination Of Our Own Extraordinariness”, p.135, Basic Books

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• Consciousness is cerebral celebrity--nothing more and nothing less. Those contents are conscious that persevere, that monopolize resources long enough to achieve certain typical and "symptomatic" effects--on memory, on the control of behavior and so forth.

  Daniel Dennett

  Memories, Long, Typical

  Daniel Clement Dennett (1998). “Brainchildren: Essays on Designing Minds”, p.137, MIT Press

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• Life is not about gutting out every situation. It's about identifying opportunity or the lack thereof. If your pride is all that is standing in the way of quitting, quit. The right people won't care and the wrong people don't matter. If you know you're on the right path, persevere though the pain. It will be worth it.

  Seth Godin

  Pain, Pride, Opportunity

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• Never ride a bike with the brakes on. If something is proving too difficult, give up and do something else. Try to live without resort to per­severance.

  Geoff Dyer

  Giving Up, Trying, Resorts

  "Ten rules for writing fiction", www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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• You can never give up-athletics taught me that. You must work hard, prepare, learn from your losses and continue to fight until the very end.

  Roger Staubach

  Giving Up, Hard Work, Fighting

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• It is a long road from conception to completion.

  Moliere

  Long, Conception, Completion

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• Take the ideas of the masses and concentrate them, then go to the masses, persevere in the ideas and carry them through, so as to form correct ideas of leadership-such is the basic method of leadership.

  Mao Zedong

  Ideas, Form, Mass

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.69, Lulu.com

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• I had to persevere because this was my life. This championship, this was the stuff I dreamt of all my life, and I wasn't gonna be denied.

  Mike Tyson

  Motivation, Fear, Stuff

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• When you go into a college of education you've got aspirations of making a difference in people's lives, of loving children, of working with kids, but none of that is affirmed in your college of education. Then you go working in schools, especially in places like New York City and Chicago that I'm most familiar with, and you find these huge aspirations are beaten out of you in a very systematic way - and still people persevere.

  Bill Ayers

  New York, Children, School

  Source: www.smithmag.net

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• Let a man begin in earnest with "I ought," and he will end, by God's grace, if he persevere, with "I will." Let him force himself to abound in all small offices of kindliness, attention, affectionateness, and all these for God's sake. By and by he will feel them become the habit of his soul.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Men, Office, Grace

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 199, 1895.

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• The most inspiring piece of advice I've gotten is simply to persevere. My mom taught me to always keep going no matter what from an early age. When it feels too difficult to push forward, I always remind myself, 'This too shall pass,' and then I redouble my efforts.

  Liya Kebede

  Mom, Effort, Advice

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• In male-driven [films], the protagonist is not the person who's necessarily in harms way. There's a sense that they're going to figure out how to persevere and take on the obstacles and foes and you don't necessarily know if that's going to happen with the subjects of love stories.

  Todd Haynes

  Males, Stories, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Bear up the hands that hang down, by faith and prayer; support the tottering knees. Have you any days of fasting and prayer? Storm the throne of grace and persevere therein, and mercy will come down.

  John Wesley

  Prayer, Hands, Christian Inspirational

  John Wesley (1830). “The works of the rev. John Wesley”, p.383

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