Perseverance Quotes - Page 40

• With time and patience, the mulberry leaf becomes satin.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Patience, Chinese, Perseverence

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

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• One of the commonest mistakes and one of the costliest is thinking that success is due to some genius, some magic - something or other which we do not possess. Success is generally due to holding on, and failure to letting go. You decide to learn a language, study music, take a course of reading, train yourself physically. Will it be success or failure? It depends upon how much pluck and perseverance that word decide contains. The decision that nothing can overrule, the grip that nothing can detach will bring success.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Letting Go, Mistake, Reading

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

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• One of the commonest mistakes and one of the costliest is thinking that success is due to some genius, some magic – something or other which we do not possess. Success is generally due to holding on, and failure to letting go.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Letting Go, Mistake, Thinking

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

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• The offspring of virtue is perseverance. The fruit and offspring of perseverance is habit and child of habit is character.

  John Climacus

  Children, Character, Fruit

  Saint John (Climacus) (1982). “John Climacus (CWS)”, p.260, Paulist Press

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• Any child can be taught to be beautifully behaved with no effort greater than quiet patience and perseverance, whereas to break bad habits once they are acquired is a Herculean task.

  Emily Post

  Children, Effort, Tasks

  Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.571, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Prison itself is a tremendous education in the need for patience and perseverance. It is above all a test of one's commitment.

  Nelson Mandela

  Commitment, Needs, Tests

  Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• Opportunities are not offered. They must be wrested and worked for. And this calls for perseverance... and courage.

  Indira Gandhi

  Opportunity

  Indira Gandhi (1971). “Selected Speeches of Indira Gandhi: The years of challenge, January 1966-August 1969”

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• The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand

  Vince Lombardi

  Success, Motivational Sports, Inspirational Sports

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

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• If men of wisdom and knowledge, of moderation and temperance, of patience, fortitude and perseverance, of sobriety and true republican simplicity of manners, of zeal for the honour of the Supreme Being and the welfare of the commonwealth; if men possessed of these other excellent qualities are chosen to fill the seats of government, we may expect that our affairs will rest on a solid and permanent foundation.

  Samuel Adams

  Men, Voting, Simplicity

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• Every obstacle yields to stern resolve.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Persistence, Yield, Will And Determination

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.250, GENERAL PRESS

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• The harder I work the more I live.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Work, Good Luck, True Joy

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• To change rules that are already in place takes time, energy, perseverance and a lot of hard work. You only have so many of these assets at your disposal, so choose with care the rules you want to change.

  Peter McWilliams

  Change, Hard Work, Choices

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--but Didn't”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• Conscious auto-suggestion, made with confidence, faith, and perseverance realizes itself automatically, in all matters within reason.

  Emile Coue

  Suggestions, Matter, Affirmation

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• Now then, you of noble mind, who love this profession, come at once to art and accept these precepts: enthusiasm , reverence, obedience, and perseverance. As soon as you can, place yourself under the guidance of a master, and remain with him as long as possible.

  Cennino Cennini

  Art, Long, Mind

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• Nothing succeeds like persistence. The common denominator of all successful people is their persistence.

  Roger Delano Hinkins

  Successful, Persistence, People

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• If you persevere, stick with it, wok at it, you have a real opportunity to achieve. If you do your best and keep a true compass, you'll get there.

  Edward Kennedy

  Real, Opportunity, Sticks

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• Persistence may not solve everything - at least in our lifetime - but it is truer to the meaning of life for us to wait for another plowing, another seeding, another harvest, then not.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Persistence, Waiting, Meaning Of Life

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• We pray to you, O God ... for strength, determination, and willpower, to do instead of just to pray, to become instead of merely to wish.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Determination, Wish, Willpower

  Harold S. Kushner (2007). “When Bad Things Happen to Good People”, p.159, Anchor

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• The individual who knows the score about life sees difficulties as opportunities

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Self Esteem, Wrestling, Opportunity

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• Lots of people limit their possibilities by giving up easily. Never tell yourself this is too much for me. It's no use. I can't go on. If you do you're licked, and by your own thinking too. Keep believing and keep on keeping on.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Wisdom, Giving Up, Believe

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• If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Leadership, Determination, Giving Up

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• Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles, they toughen and make strong.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Wise, Strong, Adversity

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2007). “The Tough-Minded Optimist”, p.174, Simon and Schuster

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• One of the simplest things about all facts of life is that to get where you want to go, you must keep on keeping on.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Progress, Want, Facts

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2007). “The Tough-Minded Optimist”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• Maturity is perseverance-the ability to sweat out a project or a situation, in spite of heavy opposition and discouraging setbacks, and stick with it until it is finished.

  Ann Landers

  Maturity, Sweat, Sticks

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• Perseverance and tact are the two great qualities most valuable for all those who would climb, but especially for those who have to step out of the crowd.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Two, Quality, Crowds

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