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• Persistence is self-discipline in action.

  Brian Tracy

  Perseverance, Self, Discipline

  Brian Tracy (2009). “Flight Plan: The Real Secret of Success”, p.136, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• Saints are sinners who kept on going.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Perseverance, Giving Up, Don't Give Up

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• For me, losing a tennis match isn't failure, it's research.

  Billie Jean King

  Tennis, Competition, Research

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• Startup success is driven most by the product passion, quality, vision, team-work and persistence of the founding team and the talent that the team attracts.

  Jim Breyer

  Team, Passion, Vision

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• The difference between being a winner and being a loser is how you pick yourself up again, especially when you're down for the third or fourth or twentieth time!

  Susan Humphreys

  Success, Sports, Perseverance

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• You know, many of you kids can't relate to what it takes to get to the top rung, the top of the heap, to have success. We're looking for things that come in a minute. It just doesn't happen.

  Dave Winfield

  Success, Sports, Perseverance

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• Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Determination, Military, Force

  Carl von Clausewitz (1956). “On War”, p.1389, Library of Alexandria

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• Were designed for persistence hunting, which is a mix of running and walking. Whats built into that kind of running is a sense of pleasure. You are designed and built and perfect for this activity, and it should be enjoyable and fun.

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, Fun, Hunting

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• Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.

  Dan Gable

  Sports, Determination, Wrestling

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• As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Just because you didn't start out perfect doesn't mean you can't have an excellent result in the end.

  Debi Thomas

  Success, Sports, Perseverance

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• The road to success is always under construction.

  Lily Tomlin

  Funny, Inspiring, Success

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• The persistence of erroneous beliefs exacerbates the widespread anachronistic failure to recognize the urgent problems that face humanity on this planet.

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Faith, Humanity, Faces

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• God is action, complete with mistakes, fumblings, persistence, agony. God is not the power that has found eternal equilibrium, but the power that is forever breaking every equilibrium, forever searching for a higher one.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  God, Mistake, Agony

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• Success Recipe: 2 cups faith, 2 cups love, 1 cup hard work, 1 cup persistence, 1 tbsp vision and a dash of swagger.

  Jim Rohn

  Hard Work, Vision, Cups

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• …there would be no powerful will binding hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow creature…And yet she had loved him- sometimes. Often she had not. What did it matter! What could love, the unsolved mystery, count for in the face of this possession of self-assertion which she suddenly recognized as the strongest impulse of her being.

  Kate Chopin

  Powerful, Believe, Men

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• Tim Price continues to explore and develop his deeply personal approach to music. Through the years his persistence, determination and passion has enabled him to create a stellar reputation as a multiple woodwind master, composer, producer, author and last but not least educator. Tim is one of the best musicians active today and I'm happy to say he's my friend.

  Bennie Maupin

  Determination, Passion, Years

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• A man of clear ideas errs grievously if he imagines that whatever is seen confusedly does not exist; it belongs to him, when he meets with such a thing, to dispel the midst, and fix the outlines of the vague form which is looming through it.

  John Stuart Mill

  Men, Ideas, Curiosity

  John Stuart Mill (2008). “Utilitarianism and On Liberty: Including 'Essay on Bentham' and Selections from the Writings of Jeremy Bentham and John Austin”, p.65, John Wiley & Sons

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• The customs of the Jews are base and abominable and owe their persistence to their depravity. Jews are extremely loyal to one another, always ready to show compassion, but towards every other people they feel only hate and enimity. As a race (the Jews are not a race, because they have mingled with the other races to the point that they are only a people, not a race), they are prone to lust; among themselves nothing is unlawful.

  Tacitus

  Hate, Compassion, Race

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• Healing the wounds of the earth and its people does not require saintliness or a political party, only gumption and persistence. It is not a liberal or conservative activity; it is a sacred act.

  Paul Hawken

  Party, Healing, People

  Paul Hawken (2007). “Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Social Movement in History Is Restoring Grace, Justice, and Beau ty to the World”, p.14, Penguin

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• You have to have the will not to jump at the first solution, because the really elegant solution might be right around the corner.

  Ray Dolby

  Might, Firsts, Corners

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• Good design today requires more vision (a larger point of view versus the single brilliant idea), more consistency (a deeper underlying structure of language and form versus the simple, uniform application of visual elements) and more patience (persistence over time versus creative authoritarianism).

  William Drenttel

  Simple, Ideas, Views

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• After a lifetime of swimming upstream, I am convinced that one of the real secrets to Wal-mart's phenomenal success has been that very tendency.

  Sam Walton

  Real, Swimming, Secret

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• The Warrior knows the value of persistence and of courage.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Warrior

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• For many of us, conversion is an ongoing process and not a onetime event that results from a powerful or dramatic experience. Line upon line and precept upon precept, gradually and almost imperceptibly, our motives, our thoughts, our words, and our deeds become aligned with the will of God. Conversion unto the Lord requires both persistence and patience.

  David A. Bednar

  Powerful, Deeds, Lines

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