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“It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance and sweeps away all obstacles.”

“Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.”

“Energy and persistence conquer all things.”

“The best way out is always through.”

“Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.”

“Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.”

“The world is full of educated derelicts.”

“Determination and persistence are melded together. Their basis comes from people who stay hungry and don`t allow themselves to get too comfortable. Entering a comfort zone is the fastest way to kill your drive and determination, at which point you begin to accept whatever you have as being "good enough." There is no self-esteem in accepting the status quo. There are tremendous emotional and psychological rewards that come with pushing yourself to break through past limits and, in the process, creating something of value for yourself and others.”

“Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.”

“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.”

“Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.”

“A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.”

“There is nothing more common than unsuccessful men with talent.”

“Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.”

“If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.”

“Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.”

“The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.”

“The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.”

“Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.”

“Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.”

“Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.”

“We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.”

“Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.”

“You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.”

“Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.”

“A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.”

“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.”

“The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.”

“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.”

“It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.”

“Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.”

“There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.”

“Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.”

“I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.”

“Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.”

“In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance.”

“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”

“The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.”

“People can attach themselves to something--an idea, another person, a desire--with an impossibly strong grip, and in the case of restless ghosts, a grip stronger than death. Will is a powerful thing. Will--it's supposed to be a good treat, a more determined and persistent version of determination and persistence. But will and obsession--they sit right next to each other. They pretend to be strangers and all the while meet secretly at midnight." -”

“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.”

“Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.”