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  Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1896). “Oldtown folks. Sam Lawson's Oldtown fireside stories”

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• The road to perseverance lies by doubt.

  Francis Quarles

  Lying, Doubt, Literature

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• "Genius is divine perseverance." Divine patience I believe he originally used, perseverance is better in my opinion. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Genius, Brightness, Divine

  "The papers of Woodrow Wilson".

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• I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It's a voice of pain and victory.

  Anthony Hamilton

  Patience, Pain, Dedication

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• Everything that I've ever been able to accomplish in skating and in life has come out of adversity and perseverance.

  Scott Hamilton

  Adversity, Skating, Able

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• Man is not made for defeat.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspiring, Self Esteem, Men

  The Old Man and the Sea (1952)

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• The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.

  Napoleon Hill

  Motivational, Jobs, Persistence

  Napoleon Hill (1997). “Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success”, p.70, Penguin

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• Pay little attention to discouragement as possible. Plough ahead as a steamer does, rough or smooth - rain or shine. To carry your cargo and make your port is the point.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Rain, Shining, Doe

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”

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• Long distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.

  Mao Zedong

  Running, Distance, Long

  Zedong Mao, Stuart Schram (2015). “Mao's Road to Power: Revolutionary Writings, 1912-49: V. 1: Pre-Marxist Period, 1912-20: Revolutionary Writings, 1912-49”, p.120, Routledge

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• Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Mean, Men, Want

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• Decide carefully, exactly what you want in life, then work like mad to make sure you get it!

  Hector Crawford

  Motivational, Positive, Determination

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• A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Inspirational, Valentines Day, Integrity

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• I'll admit that it's not easy to get an agent, but becoming successful in anything requires perseverance.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Successful, Agents, Becoming

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• There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Encouraging, Power, Two

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• Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Power, Purpose, Failing

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• Every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward

  Thomas A. Edison

  Determination, Failure, Steps

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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.

  Marie Curie

  Inspirational, Strength, Confidence

  "Madame Curie: A Biography". Book by Eve Curie Labouisse translated by Vincent Sheean, 1937.

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• The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

  Joyce Brothers

  Motivational, Success, Persistence

  "Business Class : Etiquette Essentials for Success at Work" by Jacqueline Whitmore, (p. 25), 2005.

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• When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.

  Isak Dinesen

  Encouraging, Time, Women

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• Don't give up. Keep going. there is always a chance that you stumble onto something terrific. I have never heard of anyone stumbling over anything while he was sitting down

  Ann Landers

  Inspirational, Giving Up, Don't Give Up

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• Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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  Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Summer, Spring

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Oct 16, 2015

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• Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.

  William Godwin

  Encouraging, Desire, Principles

  William Godwin (1831). “Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries: Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author”, p.346

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• A hopeful book that moms will relish, Blue Like Playdough is an honest, peel-back-the-covers look at the creative way God shapes us through childhood and parenthood. Tricia Goyer explores her own weaknesses along the journey, revealing her desire to serve the God who forms strength and joy and perseverance within her. A compelling, fresh read.

  Mary E. DeMuth

  Mom, Book, Journey

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• Business is always a struggle. There are always obstacles and competitors. There is never an open road, except the wide road that leads to failure. Every great success has always been achieved by fight. Every winner has scars.The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will-power to develop themselves. So choose to be among the few today.

  Chris Kirubi

  Moving On, Success, Business

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