Perseverance Quotes - Page 26

• Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

  Harper Lee

  Inspirational, Courage, Powerful

  "To Kill a Mockingbird". Book by Harper Lee, community.sparknotes.com. July 11, 1960.

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• My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Failure, Humor

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• I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Patience

  Abraham Lincoln (1999). “The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy

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• The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Inspirational, Success, Determination

  'The Ladder of Saint Augustine' (1850)

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  Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

  Martin Luther

  Inspirational, Faith, Hope

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• African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.

  Wangari Maathai

  Happiness, Inspiring, Success

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• Americans never quit.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Military, Usa, America

  The New York Times (p. 13), August 9, 1928.

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• A 41-inch bust and a lot of perseverance will get you more than a cup of coffee - a lot more.

  Jayne Mansfield

  Coffee, Cups, Pin Up Girl

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• Amongst the qualities a hero should have, I would include determination, loyalty, courage, perseverance, patience, focus, intrepidity and selflessness.

  Ricky Martin

  Loyalty, Determination, Hero

  "Ricky Martin giving a voice to exploited children". "CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute" with Anderson Cooper, www.cnn.com. November 16, 2010.

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• What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.

  Thomas Paine

  Inspirational, Motivation, 4th Of July

  Thomas Paine (2011). “Thomas Paine on Liberty: Including Common Sense and Other Writings”, p.80, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Life is like riding a bicycle: you don't fall off unless you stop pedaling.

  Claude Pepper

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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  There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

  Colin Powell

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You know how people always talk about how vision is the key to entrepreneurship and perseverance and really seeing what other people don't see? We can actually redeem a fair amount of that folk wisdom.

  Eric Ries

  Keys, People, Vision

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• It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Motivational, Leadership, Philosophy

  Address at Oglethorpe University, 22 May (1932)

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• Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.

  Wilma Rudolph

  Motivational, Happiness, Success

  Wilma Rudolph (1977). “Wilma”

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• Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

  John Ruskin

  Beauty, Patience, Ambition

  John Ruskin, Christine Roth (2004). “The Two Paths”, p.88, Parlor Press LLC

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  My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.

  Anna Sewell

  Animal, Compassion, Diversity

  Anna Sewell (1895). “Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse”, p.195

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• A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

  B. F. Skinner

  Education, Giving Up, Real

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• I have never had to face anything that could overwhelm the native optimism and stubborn perseverance I was blessed with.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Blessed, Optimism, Stubborn

  Sonia Sotomayor (2013). “My Beloved World”, p.11, Vintage

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• I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Patience, Powerful, Political

  In Observer 4 Apr. 1989

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• I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Encouraging, Jobs, Powerful

  "The feminist who didn't want to be called one" by Christine Todd Whitman, www.politico.com. December 9, 2013.

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• This lady is not for turning.

  Margaret Thatcher

  "Iron Lady's speeches". news.bbc.co.uk. March 22, 2002.

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• The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Life, Motivational, Patience

  Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1961). “War and peace”

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• There is no such thing as natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls.

  Lee Trevino

  Sports, Golf, Persistence

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• I didn't have anybody, really, no foundation in life, so I had to make my own way. Always, from the start. I had to go out in the world and become strong, to discover my mission in life.

  Tina Turner

  Happiness, Success, Strong

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