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• Writing is like giving birth to a piano sideways. Anyone who perseveres is either talented or nuts.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Writing, Nuts, Piano

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• I send them my warmest encouragement to persevere in the patience and charity of Christ.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Encouragement, Charity, Christ

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• The trials and pressures of life--and how we face them--often define us. Confronted by adversity, many people give up while others rise up. How do those who succeed do it? They persevere. They find the benefit to them personally that comes from any trial. And they recognize that the best thing about adversity is coming out on the other side of it. There is a sweetness to overcoming your troubles and finding something good in the process, however small it may be. Giving up when adversity threatens can make a person bitter. Persevering through adversity makes one better.

  John C. Maxwell

  Giving Up, Adversity, People

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• The capacity of young people to persevere, even under the most adverse conditions, never ceases to amaze me.

  Jane Fonda

  People, Capacity, Young

  "Fostering Success" by Jane Fonda, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 29, 2009.

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• Only the man who follows the command of Jesus single-mindedly, and unresistingly lets his yoke rest upon him, finds his burden easy, and under its gentle pressure receives the power to persevere in the right way. The command of Jesus is hard, unutterably hard, for those who try to resist it. But for those who willingly submit, the yoke is easy, and the burden is light.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Jesus, Men, Light

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.33, SCM Press

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• He who limps is still walking.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Writing, Positive Thinking, Action

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• Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter, we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them.

  William Hazlitt

  Perseverance, Passion, Ambition

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.62

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• It's very important to go through periods where you sound just rotten and you know it, and you have to persevere or give up.

  Steve Lacy

  Giving Up, Important, Sound

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• From the very commencement the student should set out to witness the progress and effects of sickness and ought to persevere in the daily observation of disease during the whole period of his studies.

  Robert James Graves

  Progress, Disease, Students

  Introductory Lectures (1850)

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• The Qur'an does not ask for human perfection, but rather
  asks that we persevere in striving for self-improvement and that we never
  become complacent or despondent about our progress.

  Jeffrey Lang

  Self, Perfection, Progress

  Jeffrey Lang (1997). “Even Angels Ask: A Journey to Islam in America”

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• To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a fool.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Errors, Fool, Humans

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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

  Perseverance, Real, Opportunity

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• Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves, and to save all those who rely upon you. You have only to go right on, and at the end of the road, be it short or long, victory and honor will be found.

  Winston Churchill

  Rely Upon, Long, Honor

  Winston Churchill's remarks at the Guildhall after the first British naval victory of World War I (September 4, 1914), as quoted in Martin Gilbert "Churchill: A Life" (p. 279), October 15, 1992.

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• What matter and opportunity [for thy activity] art thou avoiding? For what else are all these things, except exercises for the reason, when it has viewed carefully and by examination into their nature the things which happen in life? Persevere then until thou shalt have made these things thy own, as the stomach which is strengthened makes all things its own, as the blazing fire makes flame and brightness out of everything that is thrown into it.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Art, Exercise, Opportunity

  Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.62, Lulu.com

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• There is but one pursuit in life which it is in the power of all to follow, and of all to attain. It is subject to no disappointments, since he that perseveres, makes every difficulty an advancement, and every contest a victory; and this is the pursuit of virtue.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Disappointment, Victory, Advancement

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.40

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• In the belly of Leviathan ... one can either despair and perish, or be cheerful and persevere.

  Dean Koontz

  Despair, Cheerful, Leviathan

  Dean Koontz (2016). “The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd”, p.234, Bantam

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• A life is not meant to be half lived. It is meant to be fully, wholly embraced. If you want to make a change in the world you have to be strong. You have to take chances. You have to persevere. Sometimes you must blindly go in a direction that you may be unsure of, but one that you have faith will lead you to the right place.

  Esther Earl

  Strong, Half, World

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• There is one thing more powerful than kings and all the soldiers in the world, and that is a visionary who has the courage to persevere.

  Paul Delaroche

  Perseverance, Kings, Powerful

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• My brothers and my sisters, do always persevere in true and earnest prayer, and the Lord will hear you. Believe that the highest revelations of science are conformable to the doctrine of the efficacy of prayer; that in this doctrine the highest philosophy harmonizes with the purest devotion.

  Keshub Chandra Sen

  Brother, Prayer, Philosophy

  Sermon at Hackney Unitarian Church, London, April 24, 1870.

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• Take risks. Fail. Pick yourself back up again. And always, always remember this: there is no adversity capable of stopping you once the choice to persevere is made.

  Jason Kilar

  Adversity, Choices, Risk

  Jason Kilar's Commencement Address at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, www.c-span.org. May 10, 2015.

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• Ability to persevere begins with you, the individual. However, change is rarely easy. In fact, sometimes it is downright formidable.

  Paul G. Stoltz

  Inspirational, Facts, Sometimes

  Paul G. Stoltz (1997). “Adversity Quotient: Turning Obstacles Into Opportunities”, p.277, John Wiley & Sons

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• Through persistence, you can be one of those happy, victorious people who not only chases dreams, but who catches them! The persistent man also perseveres long enough for his dreams to catch up with him!

  Catherine Ponder

  Dream, Perseverance, Persistence

  Catherine Ponder “The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity”, Lulu.com

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• To some degree we all live with uncertainty. We have no control over the future. Yet we carry on, we persevere, because, I guess, it's the way we're made.

  Karen Thompson Walker

  Degrees, Way, Made

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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, Perseverance, Determination

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• Christians walk as strangers in the world: They are untamed. They are free. To persevere with love, yet untamed by man, is often what leaves that open space for divine revelation when God so wills.

  Criss Jami

  Christian, Men, Space

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.71, Criss Jami

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