Perseverance Quotes - Page 40

• As a leader, these attributes - confidence, perseverance, work ethic and good sense - are all things I look for in people. I also try to lead by example and create an environment where good questions and good ideas can come from anyone.

  Heather Bresch

  Ideas, People, Work Ethic

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• I lived in lower-income neighborhoods in the inner city. Across the street were dark parts of the world. I've experienced the gamut, from third world to inner city to my parents working their way out of being secretaries and janitors to professors and real-estate people. They've shown me a path of perseverance and hard work in a peaceable way.

  Kenna

  Real, Hard Work, Dark

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• Perseverance in object, though not by the most direct way, is often more laudable than perpetual changes, as often as the object shifts light.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Light, Way, Objects

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, 1: Correspondence and Private Papers”, p.161

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• A good cause is often injured more by ill-timed efforts of its friends than by the arguments of its enemies. Persuasion, perseverance and patience are the best advocates on questions depending on the will of others.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Effort, Enemy, Causes

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.311, Rowman & Littlefield

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• [Asked if American women would ever win full suffrage:] Assuredly. I firmly believed at one time that I should live to see that day. I have never for one moment lost faith. It will come but I shall not see itit is inevitable.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Faith, Winning, Moments

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• This life is a war we are not yet
  winning for our daughters' children.
  Don't do your enemies' work for them.
  Finish your own.

  Marge Piercy

  Daughter, Children, War

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Moon Is Always Female”, p.115, Knopf

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• Crushed to earth and rising again is an author's gymnastic. Once he fails to struggle to his feet and grab his pen, he will contemplate a fact he should never permit himself to face: that in all probability books have been written, are being written, will be written, better than anything he has done, is doing, or will do.

  Fannie Hurst

  Struggle, Book, Feet

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• Enthusiasm, if fueled by inspiration and perseverance, travels with passion and its destination is excellence.

  Napoleon Hill

  Life, Inspiration, Passion

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• See the wild birds on the wing,
  Hear the bells that sweetly ring,
  When you feel like singin', sing--
  Keep a-goin'!

  Frank Lebby Stanton

  Wings, Bird, Singing

  Frank Lebby Stanton, “Keep A-Goin'!”

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• There's nothing like going on with a thing.

  Anthony Trollope

  Wisdom, Gone

  Anthony Trollope (1870). “The Vicar of Bullhampton”, p.330

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• Let Love step down,
  open the clasped hands,
  forfeit the thorny crown,
  retrieve the garment
  that was whole,
  body and spirit one, spirit and soul.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Love, Hands, Soul

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.481, New Directions Publishing

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• ...when we are going through the aftereffects of a bad jolt in loss of money or pride--and both are closely connected--we should get off to ourselves, make an honest appraisal of our shortcomings, and try to find our weak spots and bolster them up before starting in again. First on the program we should figure out a plan to eat. The money we have lost is a small matter; if we can keep our pride and strong faith in ourselves the battle ahead is half won before we start.

  Sue Sanders

  Strong, Failure, Loss

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• In summary, all great work is the fruit of patience and perseverance, combined with tenacious concentration on a subject over a period of months or years.

  Santiago Ramon y Cajal

  Patience, Work, Years

  Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Neely Swanson, Larry W. Swanson (2004). “Advice for a Young Investigator”, p.64, MIT Press

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• Success is generally due to holding on, and failure to letting go.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Letting Go, Holding On, Perseverence

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

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• You factor in racism as a reality and you keep moving.

  Jewell Jackson McCabe

  Success, Moving, Reality

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• First, perseverance trumps talent. Second, do what you want to do, otherwise why bother? Third, be ethical; it might rub off on others. Fourth, don't give up.

  Jay Maisel

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Want

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• There are people who buy pictures because they were difficult to do, and are done. Such pictures are often only a record of pain and dull perseverance. Great works of art should look as though they were made in joy. Real joy is a tremendous activity, dull drudgery is nothing to it.

  Robert Henri

  Art, Pain, Real

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• We never can tell how our lives may work to the account of the general good, and we are not wise enough to know if we have fulfilled our mission or not.

  Ellen Swallow Richards

  Wise, Purpose, May

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• I often think that all the difficulties we encounter only give us the more strength if we keep hold of our work, and we must not now give up while in the prime of life. It is best to keep trying, and by and by the opportunity will come. If we have given up, then we shall not be ready for it when it does come.

  Ellen Swallow Richards

  Giving Up, Opportunity, Thinking

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• Want of perseverance is the great fault of women in everything--morals, attention to health, friendship, and so on. It cannot be too often repeated that women never reach the end of anything through want of perseverance.

  Suzanne Curchod

  Attention, Want, Faults

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• There is no creature so contemptible but by resolution may gain his point.

  Roger L'Estrange

  May, Gains, Resolution

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• There is material among us for the broadest comedies and the deepest tragedies, but, besides money and leisure, it needs patience, perseverance, courage, and the hand of an artist to weave it into the literature of the country.

  Frances Harper

  Country, Artist, Hands

  Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (2009). “Iola Leroy (EasyRead Large Edition)”, p.328, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Put a grain of boldness into everything you do.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Success, Being Yourself, Determination

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• Failure? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.

  Dottie Walters

  Motivational, Rejection, Mets

  Dottie Walters (2002). “Speak and Grow Rich: Revised and Updated”, p.75, Penguin

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• The power of a movement lies in the fact that it can indeed change the habits of people. This change is not the result of force but of dedication, of moral persuasion.

  Steven Biko

  Lying, Dedication, People

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