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• Constant repetition of tongue-twisters was like lifting weights for me, but patience and persistence have paid off.

  Nicholas Brendon

  Patience, Lifting Weights, Tongue

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• "Softly, softly, catchee monkey," is the West African rendering of a very valuable precept. An awful lot of men fail through lack of patient persistence.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Men, Monkeys, Awful

  Robert Baden-Powell (2013). “Playing the Game: A Baden-Powell Compendium”, p.271, Pan Macmillan

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• When we say that the persistence of competition is ensured by fate, we mean that individual freedom is so guaranteed. The one thing to which fate binds us is liberty.

  John Bates Clark

  Mean, Fate, Competition

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• What is important is what inspires persistence and determination- in other words what you care about.

  David Maister

  Inspiring, Determination, Inspire

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• This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation.

  Carroll Quigley

  Fear, Evil, Secrecy

  Carroll Quigley (1966). “Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time”, New York : Macmillan [c1966]

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• Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Father, Brave, Have Faith

  "A Bright Idea: Rescue the Incandescents" by Ken Blackwell, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2011.

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• It's easy .... it's a mind that is open to everything, yet attaches to nothing ... it's called freedom that's what it is, plain and simple!

  Gary Busey

  Acceptance, Simple, Mind

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• What is the use of merely listening to lectures? The real thing is practice.

  Ramakrishna

  Real, Practice, Listening

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• The lifeblood of Christianity is not our persistence in moving toward God but God's persistence in moving toward us.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Moving, Christianity

  Twitter post from Sep 10, 2012

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• Persistence is a characteristic to which success invariably surrenders.

  Catherine Ponder

  Surrender, Characteristics

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• Lucky is where skill meets persistence.

  Robin Sharma

  Success, Skills, Lucky

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from May 25, 2011

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• Having spent too many years in show business, the one thing I see that succeeds is persistence. It's the person who just ain't gonna go home. I decided early on that I wasn't going to go home. This is what I'll be doing until they put me in jail or in a coffin.

  David Mamet

  Home, Years, Jail

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• For a wound to heal, you have to clean it out. Again, and again, and again. And this cleaning process stings. The cleaning of a wound hurts. Yes. Healing takes so much work. So much persistence. And so much patience. But every process has an end and an appointed term. Your healing will come... And like all created things, your worldly pain will die.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Hurt, Pain, Healing

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• Humble patience, tirelessness and persistence in prayer conquer the unconquerable God and incline Him to mercy. According to the Lord's parable, the importunity of the widow inclined a wicked and unjust judge to grant her petition (cf. Lk. 18:1 ff.). The Lord gave this parable for a special purpose ? to teach us not to faint, but to pray patiently. If an unjust judge was persuaded to grant the petition of the widow, how can God fail to incline His ear to our prayers, if we persist in imploring Him since He is the essence of lovingkindness?

  Lorenzo Scupoli

  Christian, Prayer, Humble

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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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• That's like a dream come true. To be able to hire friends, to shoot a movie in the neighborhood where you grew up. To have it released. It's actually a dream. How many people can say that their first film got distributed and out there? What are the odds? My persistence made the odds work for me.

  Louis Lombardi

  Dream, People, Film

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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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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• Have the confidence to fail. Persistence is key.

  Jessica Walsh

  Keys, Failing

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• Eventually, if it's on your mind, you stumble on it. You need a certain amount of luck and persistence.

  Jules Feiffer

  Luck, Mind, Needs

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. July 28, 2008.

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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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