Persevere Quotes - Page 9

• Follow your dreams, work hard, practice and persevere. Make sure you eat a variety of foods, get plenty of exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle.

  Sasha Cohen

  Motivational, Dream, Hard Work

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• Remember also that it is not knowledge but the yearning for knowledge that makes for a complete, accomplished man. Such a man does not stand still but perseveres in the face of adversity, nor does he remain untouched by the pain cause by absence. On the contrary, he recognizes himself in each cry, uttered or repressed, in the smallest rift, in the most pressing need.

  Elie Wiesel

  Pain, Adversity, Men

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• The cheerful mind perseveres and the strong mind hews its way through a thousand difficulties.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Strong, Mind, Cheerful

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• Do not be discouraged by the resistance you will encounter from your human nature; you must go against your human inclinations. Often, in the beginning, you will think that you are wasting time, but you must go on, be determined and persevere in it until death, despite all the difficulties.

  Brother Lawrence

  Thinking, Encounters, Goes On

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• In case of doubt, push on just a little further and then keep on pushing.

  George S. Patton

  Perseverance, Determination, Doubt

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• Say, thou art mine; and ever, My love, as it begins, shall so persevere

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Love You, Mines

  William Shakespeare, Mr. Theobald (Lewis) (1773). “The Works of Shakespeare: Collated with the Oldest Copies, and Corrected”, p.69

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• Believers must persevere in prayer that they may see clearly their own pitiful state and understand the indwelling, working, and demands of the Holy Spirit.

  Watchman Nee

  Prayer, Demand, May

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Spiritual Man”, p.314, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.

  Ovid

  Life, Motivational, Rocks

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• I would tell young people to start where they are with what they have and that the secret of a big success is starting with a small success and dreaming bigger and bigger dreams, I would tell them also that a young Black woman or a young Black man can't dream too much today or dare too much if he or she works hard, perseveres and dedicates themselves to excellence.

  John H. Johnson

  Success, Dream, Hard Work

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• To achieve in sports you first have to have a dream, and then you must act on that dream. The best athletes are those who truly enjoy what they are doing and display a tremendous amount of work ethic. They continue to persevere in spite of setbacks and never lose sight of their ultimate goal.

  Dianne Holum

  Success, Sports, Dream

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• I drove away from my mind everything capable of spoiling the sense of the presence of God.... I just make it my business to persevere in His holy presence... My soul has had an habitual, silent, secret conversation with God.

  Brother Lawrence

  Prayer, Soul, Secret

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• So let us persevere. Peace need not be impracticable, and war need not be inevitable. By defining our goal more clearly, by making it seem more manageable and less remote, we can help all peoples to see it, to draw hope from it, and to move irresistibly toward it.

  John F. Kennedy

  Peace, War, Moving

  American University Commencement Address, delivered 10 June 1963

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• The messengers of Jesus will be hated to the end of time. They will be blamed for all the division which rend cities and homes. Jesus and his disciples will be condemned on all sides for undermining family life, and for leading the nation astray; they will be called crazy fanatics and disturbers of the peace. The disciples will be sorely tempted to desert their Lord. But the end is also near, and they must hold on and persevere until it comes. Only he will be blessed who remains loyal to Jesus and his word until the end.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Jesus, Crazy, Blessed

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• Destiny has a lot to do with it, but so do you. You have to persevere, you have to insist.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Perseverance, Fate, Destiny

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• Sometimes my body is aching, but I always think, 'Why am I in this? Why do I love it so much?' That's what makes me persevere, that's what makes me keep on going.

  Michelle Kwan

  Thinking, Body, Sometimes

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• If our sex life were determined by our first youthful experiments, most of the world would be doomed to celibacy. In no area of human experience are human beings more convinced that something better can be had only if they persevere.

  P. D. James

  Sex, World, Firsts

  FaceBook post by P.D. James from Apr 30, 2013

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• Excellence is never granted to man but as the reward of labor. It argues no small strength of mind to persevere in habits of industry without the pleasure of perceiving those advances, which, like the hand of a clock, whilst they make hourly approaches to their point, yet proceed so slowly as to escape observation.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Men, Hands, Mind

  Sir Joshua Reynolds (2009). “Seven Discourses on Art”, p.36, The Floating Press

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• Give us, O give us the man who sings at his work! Be his occupation what it may, he is equal to any of those who follow the same pursuit in silent sullenness. He will do more in the same time . . . he will do it better . . . he will persevere longer. One is scarcely sensible to fatigue while he marches to music. The very stars are said to make harmony as they revolve in their spheres.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Time, Stars, Work

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• This is a setback. You get back up, you dust yourself off, and you get back in the game. We had a great singer named Ray Charles who wrote a song called 'Drowning in My Tears.' You can't afford to drown in your tears. You gotta go back, rededicate yourself, redouble your efforts, and persevere.

  Don King

  Song, Dust, Games

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• This is the greatest lesson a child can learn. It is the greatest lesson anyone can learn. It has been the greatest lesson I have learned: if you persevere, stick w/it, work @ it, you have a real opportunity to achieve something. Sure, there will be storms along the way. And you might not reach your goal right away. But if you do your best and keep a true compass, you'll get there.

  Edward Kennedy

  Children, Real, Opportunity

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• To persevere is always a reflection of the state of one's inner life, one's philosophy and one's perspective

  David Guterson

  Philosophy, Reflection, Perspective

  David Guterson (2009). “Snow Falling on Cedars”, p.105, A&C Black

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• I believe in persevering. If you persevere, success lies ahead of you.

  Liu Yang

  Lying, Believe, Ifs

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• Among the greatest of all great services is the education of children, and promotion of the various sciences, crafts and arts. Praised be God, ye are now exerting strenuous efforts toward this end. The more ye persevere in this most important task, the more will ye witness the confirmations of God, to such a degree that ye yourselves will be astonished.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Art, Children, Effort

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• The world belongs to those who persevere.

  Nathaniel Branden

  World, Embrace Life

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “A Woman's Self-Esteem: Struggles and Triumphs in the Search for Identity”, Jossey-Bass

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• My father taught me that one of the most important abilities in life is to be able to take the pain and persevere, and for years this lesson had served me well.

  Yanni

  Life, Pain, Father

  Yanni, David Rensin (2003). “Yanni in Words”, Miramax Books

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