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.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
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.
The world is full of educated derelicts.
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
By perseverance the snail reached the ark.
Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.
A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
Quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
There is nothing more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit.
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.
Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
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