Perseverance Quotes - Page 35

• Nice is a pallid virtue. Not like honesty or courage or perseverance. On the other hand, in a nation notably lacking in civility, there is much to be said for nice.

  Molly Ivins

  Honesty, Nice, Hands

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• Fortunes are made, if I the facts may state--
  Though poor myself, I know the fortunate:
  First, there's a knowledge of the way from whence
  Good fortune comes--and this is sterling sense:
  Then perseverance, never to decline
  The chase of riches till the prey is thine;
  And firmness never to be drawn away
  By any passion from that noble prey--
  By love, ambition, study, travel, fame,
  Or the vain hope that lives upon a name.

  George Crabbe

  Ambition, Passion, Names

  George Crabbe (1839). “The Poetical Works of Crabbe, Heber, and Pollok: Complete in One Volume”, p.364

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• Success is not easy and I think everyone should know that hard work and perseverance and being open to giving back are so much more powerful than stepping all over people to get to the top.

  Misty Copeland

  Powerful, Hard Work, Thinking

  Source: bknation.org

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• Clarity and perseverance are difficult in American society because the basis of capitalism is greed and dissatisfaction.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Greed, Clarity, Difficult

  Natalie Goldberg (1990). “Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life”, Bantam

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• It is a human thing to sin, but perseverance in sin is a thing of the devil.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Devil, Sin, Humans

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• I had only ordinary capacity but extraordinary persistency.

  Maria Mitchell

  Ordinary, Capacity, Extraordinary

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• It's important to just keep wanting whatever it is you want and fight for it, desperately.

  Susan Sarandon

  Determination, Fighting, Important

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• We are still a country where hard work and perseverance can earn you a better life... Yet we are rightfully troubled that many of our people are still caught in what seems to be a pervasive, unending financial struggle... every American deserves an equal opportunity to achieve success.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Struggle, Hard Work

  Marco Rubio’s speech on poverty, hotair.com. January 8, 2014.

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• All the information you need is available to you to have a successful career in music, if you're paying attention, and not closed off to anything. Remember, Perseverance is King.

  Bradley Joseph

  Kings, Successful, Careers

  Interview with Fred Wheeler, Indie Journal, 2002.

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• There is a fine line between perseverance and madness.

  Lynda Obst

  Lines, Madness, Fine

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• You plant a garden one flower at a time. ... You write a book one word at a time, clean a closet one shelf at a time, run a marathon one step at a time. If you feel defeated by some large task, get your spade and dig the first hole.

  Jeanne Marie Laskas

  Running, Determination, Flower

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• Sink twice before you strike out for land.

  Mary Butts

  Land, Strikes

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• The potential elite runner must realize that hard means hard, easy means easy and they must patiently seek out what combinations work for them. They have to learn to be persistent and patient with their training and racing.

  Frank Shorter

  Sports, Mean, Persistence

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• Nick Diaz is a champion so he's got the spirit that comes with it. So he's not going to give up mentally. You see a lot of guys give up mentally and that's why they get knocked out or submitted. They give up mentally before they lose.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Sports, Giving Up, Persistence

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• I think that with a lot of hard work and dedication, I feel that I could be the best in the world. I'm still only 35 years old... I have a fresh start physically and mentally, and I feel that I can achieve my goal to be the best again.

  Mario Lemieux

  Sports, Hard Work, Persistence

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• Perceptions of impossibility are commonly disspelled by unmitigated courage and perseverance.

  Wes Fesler

  Achievement, Perception, Impossibility

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• As long as the day lasts, let's give it all we got.

  David O. McKay

  Long, Giving, Lasts

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• It's dogged as does it.

  Anthony Trollope

  Doe

  'The Last Chronicle of Barset' (1867) ch. 61

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• When the worms are scarce, what does a hen do? Does she stop scratching? She does not. She scratches all the harder. A lot of businessmen have been showing less sense than a hen since orders became scarce. They have laid off salesmen; they have stopped or reduced their advertising; they have simply resigned themselves to inaction and, of course, to pessimism. If a hen knows enough to scratch all the harder when the worms are scarce, surely businessmen ... ought to have gumption enough to scratch all the harder for business.

  B. C. Forbes

  Order, Gumption, Hens

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• How you start is important, very important, but in the end it is how you finish that counts. It is easier to be a self-starter than a self-finisher. The victor in the race is not the one who dashes off swiftest but the one who leads at the finish. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter in life's race. In America we breed many hares but not so many tortoises.

  B. C. Forbes

  Self, America, Race

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• When you want a thing deeply, earnestly and intensely, this feeling of desire reinforces your will and arouses in you the determination to work for the desired object. When you have a distinct purpose in view, your work becomes of absorbing interest. You bend your best powers to it; you give it concentrated attention; you think of little else than the realization of this purpose; your will is stimulated into unusual activity, and as a consequence you do your work with an increasing sense of power.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Determination, Thinking, Views

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• Act with a determination not to be turned aside by thoughts of the past and fears of the future.

  Robert E. Lee

  Determination, Past, Fear Of The Future

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• When business is not all that it should be there is a temptation to sit back and say, Well, what's the use! We've done everything possible to stir up a little business and there is nothing doing so what's the use of trying! There is always a way. There was a way in and there is a way out. And success comes to the man who grits his teeth, squares his jaw, and says, There is a way for me and, by jingo, I'll find it. The stagnator gathers green scum, finally dries up and leaves an unsightly hollow.

  Cliff Sloan

  Men, Squares, Temptation

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• A determination to succeed is the only way to succeed that I know anything about.

  William Feather

  Determination, Way, Succeed

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• The three indispensable of genius are: understanding, feeling, and perseverance; the three things that enrich genius are: contentment of mind, the cherishing of good thoughts, and the exercise of memory

  Robert Southey

  Memories, Exercise, Feelings

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