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• With patience and calm, persistence and stoicism, good handwriting and careful labeling, they would meet persecution, indignity, and hardship head-on.

  Michael Chabon

  Hardship, Handwriting, Calm

  Michael Chabon (2012). “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (with bonus content): A Novel”, p.54, Random House

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• Men credited with all kinds of ability, talent, brains and know how, including the ability to see into the future, frequently have nothing more than the courage to keep everlastingly at what they set out to do. They have that one great quality that is worth more than all the rest put together. They simply will not give up! When a man makes up his mind to do something then it's only a matter of time. Staying with time take bulldog persistence. This seems to be the entrance examination to success - lasting success -- of any kind!

  Earl Nightingale

  Giving Up, Men, Mind

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• For a long time I had not approached the forbidden fruit called happiness, but it was now tempting me with a melancholy persistence. I felt as though Sonoko were an abyss above which I stood poised.

  Yukio Mishima

  Long, Fruit, Melancholy

  Yukio Mishima (1958). “Confessions of a Mask”, p.194, New Directions Publishing

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• The secret to life is to put yourself in the right lighting. For some, it's a Broadway spotlight; for others, a lamplit desk. Use your natural powers -- of persistence, concentration, and insight -- to do work you love and work that matters. Solve problems. make art, think deeply.

  Susan Cain

  Art, Thinking, Work You Love

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.264, Broadway Books

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• I don’t think it’s quite that simple. Some people never observe anything, Life just happens to them. They get by on little more than a kind of dumb persistence, and they resist with anger and resentment anything that might lift them out of that false serenity.

  Frank Herbert

  Simple, Thinking, People

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.139, Penguin

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• For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency. If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic. People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness. People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware. Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world. Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional. The art of love is largely the art of persistence.

  Albert Ellis

  Art, Real, Self Esteem

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• Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.

  Plutarch

  Inspiring, Sports, Perseverance

  Plutarch, William Watson Goodwin (1870). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.6, Boston : Little, Brown

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• Lawsuits are not pink teas. They are battles.

  Edgar Smith

  Determination, Tea, Battle

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• The breeze of grace is always blowing; set your sail to catch that breeze.

  Ramakrishna

  Determination, Grace, Breeze

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• I've been writing since I was six. It is a compulsion, so I can't really say where the desire came from; I've always had it. My breakthrough with the first book came through persistence, because a lot of publishers turned it down!

  J. K. Rowling

  Book, Writing, Desire

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• TV, and the culture it anchors, masks and drowns out the subtle and vital information contact with the real world once provided. There are lessons, enormous lessons, lessons that may be crucial to the planet's persistence as a green and diverse place and also to the happiness of it's inhabitants-that nature teaches and TV can't.

  Bill McKibben

  Real, Anchors, Culture

  Bill McKibben (2014). “The Age of Missing Information”, p.26, Random House

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• If our knowledge is, as I believe, only an island in an infinite sea of ignorance, how can we in our short lifetime find satisfaction in exploring our little island? How can we persuade ourselves to be exhilarated by our meager knowledge and yet not be discouraged by the ocean vistas?

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Short Life, Believe, Ocean

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• There is a budding morrow in midnight.

  John Keats

  Inspirational, Life, Midnight

  'To Homer' (written 1818)

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• Pain, I came to feel, might well prove to be the sole proof of the persistence of consciousness within the flesh, the sole physical expression of consciousness. As my body acquired muscle, and in turn strength, there was gradually born within me a tendency towards the positive acceptance of pain, and my interest in physical suffering deepened.

  Yukio Mishima

  Pain, Acceptance, Expression

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• I think persistence in the face of adversity is an essential part of a writer’s job description. If you don’t care enough about it to avoid being easily disheartened that way, you really should be doing something else.

  Lawrence Block

  Jobs, Adversity, Thinking

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• You have to keep plugging away. We are all growing. There is no shortcut. You have to put time into it to build an audience.

  John Gruber

  Growing, Shortcuts, Audience

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• If you don't enjoy it, then putting in the long hours is going to take their toll.

  Karrie Webb

  Sports, Perseverance, Long

  "Karrie Webb Spins Cycle of Success". The Insurance Journal Interview, amp.insurancejournal.com. August 9, 2004.

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• We shall build on.
  On through the cynic

  Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy

  Cynic

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• Success is the process of having a wonderful experience going for, getting, and having what you want.

  Michael Neill

  Gratitude, Want, Wonderful

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• There are so many different kinds of writing and so many ways to work that the only rule is this: do what works. Almost everything has been tried and found to succeed for somebody. The methods, even the ideas of successful writers contradict each other in a most heartening way, and the only element I find common to all successful writers is persistence-an overwhelming determination to succeed.

  Sophy Burnham

  Determination, Writing, Successful

  Sophy Burnham (2011). “For Writers Only: Inspiring Thoughts on the Exquisite Pain and Heady Joy of the Writing Life from Its Great Practitioners”, p.51, Penguin

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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

  Perseverance, Waiting, Meaning Of Life

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• Every one's got it in him, if he'll only make up his mind and stick at it. None of us is born with a stop-valve on his powers or with a set limit to his capacities, There's no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us.

  Charles M. Schwab

  Mind, Expansion, Limits

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• No one ever achieved a goal by being interested in its achievement. One must be committed. In fact, in studying the source of people's success, I've found that persistence overshadows even talent as the most valued and effective resource in creating and shaping the quality of life. Most people give up a maddening five feet from their goal!

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Giving Up, Feet

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.334, Simon and Schuster

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• Lying is common in social life, often done for benign purposes, seldom draws severe sanctions, and many of the most notable leaders, including the late Steve Jobs, were consummate prevaricators. Told with enough persistence and conviction, what was once untrue can become true, in a self-fulfilling prophecy sort of way.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Jobs, Lying, Self

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Have the confidence to fail. Persistence is key.

  Jessica Walsh

  Keys, Failing

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