Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
The world is full of educated derelicts.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Nelson Mandela said: 'It always seems impossible until it's done.' Peace is possible.
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.
Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
Champions keep playing until they get it right.
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