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• I'm very determined and stubborn. There's a desire in me that makes me want to do more and more, and to do it right. Each one of us has a fire in our heart for something. It's our goal in life to find it and to keep it lit.

  Mary Lou Retton

  Heart, Fire, Goal

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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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• 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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• 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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• To abstain from the enjoyment which is in our power, or to seek distant rather than immediate results, are among the most painful exertions of the human will.

  Nassau William Senior

  Painful, Results, Enjoyment

  Nassau William Senior (1852). “Political Economy: Reprinted from the Original Edition”, p.60

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• Most fisherman, including this one, cling to their pet stupidities as they would to a battered briar or an old jacket; and their dogged persistence in wrong methods and general wrong-headedness finally wins the a sort of grudging admiration, if not many fish.

  John D. Voelker

  Winning, Sea, Fishing

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  Anything lost, can be found again, except for time wasted
  A vision without action is merely a dream
  Action, it's the grind, it's the hustle, it's the persistence

  Kevin Gates

  Dream, Vision, Hustle

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• The real excitement is playing the game.

  Donald Trump

  Money, Real, Games

  Donald J. Trump, Tony Schwartz (2009). “Trump: The Art of the Deal”, p.63, Ballantine Books

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• Even at my age, I'm trying to improve. Never give up, no matter what. Even if you get last place - finish.

  Louis Zamperini

  Sports, Perseverance, Giving Up

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• In 1989, I was on Tiananmen Square with the students, living in their makeshift tents and joining their jubilant singing of the Internationale. In the two decades since, each time that I have gone back, visions from those days seem to return with increasing persistence.

  Ma Jian

  Two, Squares, Singing

  "The great Tiananmen taboo" by Ma Jian, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2009.

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• Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.

  Criss Jami

  Patience, Passion, Perfection

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.100, Criss Jami

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• If we could know as intimately as we know our more immediate parents the long line of ancestors through whom the family spirit has passed on its way to us, we should probably become fatalists in face of the apparently overwhelming evidence that there is nothing in us that has not come to us from, or at least through, the Family. Family portrait galleries are a striking confirmation of the persistence of characteristics which ultimately govern the fortunes of successive generations.

  Helen Bosanquet

  Long, Parent, Faces

  Helen Bosanquet, Bernard Bosanquet (1996). “Helen and Bernard Bosanquet: Works on economics & social welfare: the philosophy of the state and the practice of welfare”

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• How you start is important, but it is how you finish that counts. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter.

  B. C. Forbes

  Race, Important, Speed

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• Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory but rather of embracing common sense with uncommon levels of discipline and persistence.

  Patrick Lencioni

  Discipline, Common Sense, Levels

  Patrick M. Lencioni (2010). “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable”, p.185, John Wiley & Sons

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• Nowhere can it rain harder and with a more tiresome persistence than in California during the brief season when it rains at all.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Rain, California, Harder

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• Grit is not just simple elbow-grease term for rugged persistence. It is an often invisible display of endurance that lets you stay in an uncomfortable place, work hard to improve upon a given interest, and do it again and again.

  Sarah Lewis

  Motivational, Hard Work, Simple

  Sarah Lewis (2014). “The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery”, p.169, Simon and Schuster

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• You should always say your prayers with tireless diligence, as the Apostle directs, saying: 'Continue in prayer and watch in the same' (Col. 4:2). For humble patience, tirelessness and persistence in prayer conquer the unconquerable God and incline Him to mercy.

  Lorenzo Scupoli

  Christian, Prayer, Humble

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• At the beginning of a novel, a writer needs confidence, but after that what's required is persistence. These traits sound similar. They aren't. Confidence is what politicians, seducers and currency speculators have, but persistence is a quality found in termites. It's the blind drive to keep on working that persists after confidence breaks down.

  Walter Kirn

  Quality, Sound, Needs

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• Don't do something just for the money. Money is a side effect of persistence. You persist in things you are interested in. Explore your interests. Then persist. Then enjoy all the side effects.

  James Altucher

  Sides, Side Effects, Enjoy

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• The writing life requires courage, patience, persistence, empathy, openness, and the ability to deal with rejection. It requires the willingness to be alone with oneself. To be gentle with oneself. To look at the world without blinders on. To observe and withstand what one sees. To be disciplined, and at the same time, take risks. To be willing to fail - not just once, but again and again, over the course of a lifetime.

  Dani Shapiro

  Writing, Empathy, Rejection

  Dani Shapiro (2013). “Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life”, p.10, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Success is when persistence meets preparation.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Preparation

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• Persistence, persistence, persistence. I'm surprised how few entrepreneurs follow up.

  Mark Suster

  Entrepreneur, Follow Up

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• Persistence is the direct result of habit. The mind absorbs and becomes a part of the daily experiences upon which it feeds. Fear, the worst of all enemies, can be effectively cured by forced repetition of acts of courage.

  Napoleon Hill

  Mind, Enemy, Habit

  Napoleon Hill (2012). “Think & Grow Rich”, p.153, Courier Corporation

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• Our dreams of bringing the whole of human history under the control of the human will are ironically refuted by the fact that no group of idealists can easily move the pattern of history toward the desired goal of peace and justice. The recalcitrant forces in the historical drama have a power and persistence beyond our reckoning.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Dream, Drama, Moving

  Reinhold Niebuhr (2015). “Reinhold Niebuhr: Major Works on Religion and Politics: (Library of America #263)”, p.551, Library of America

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• In every human endeavor, persistence is everything.

  Joan Rivers

  Perseverance, Endeavor, Humans

  Joan Rivers (1997). “Bouncing back: I've survived everything-- and I mean everything-- and you can too!”, Thorndike Pr

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