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“You can not fail in any laudable object, unless you allow your mind to be improperly directed.”

Mind Failing Objects Perseverance Can Not

Book:Abraham Lincoln: Selected Speeches and Writings

Source: Abraham Lincoln: Selected Speeches and Writings

“If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already.”

Ifs Done Law Half Confidence Perseverance Determined Lawyer

Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations

Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations

“Your good mother tells me you are feeling very badly in your new situation. Allow me to assure you it is a perfect certainty that you will, very soon, feel better - quite happy - if you only stick to the resolution you have taken to procure a military education.... On the contrary, if you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and will regret it all your life.”

Source: Abraham Lincoln's Wit & Wisdom

“I expect to maintain this contest until successful, or till I die, or am conquered, or my term expires, or Congress or the country forsakes me.”

Country Dies Term Successful Perseverance Congress Contests Forsake

Book:The collected works of Abraham Lincoln

Source: The collected works of Abraham Lincoln

“I shall not do more than I can, and I shall do all I can to save the government, which is my sworn duty as well as my personal inclination. I shall do nothing in malice. What I deal with is too vast for malicious dealing.”

Wells I Can Government Deals Duty Perseverance Inclination Malice Malicious

Book:The Modern Library Civil War Bookshelf 5-Book Bundle: Personal Memoirs, Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Red Badge of Courage, Jefferson Davis: The Essential Writings, The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln

Source: The Modern Library Civil War Bookshelf 5-Book Bundle: Personal Memoirs, Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Red Badge of Courage, Jefferson Davis: The Essential Writings, The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln

“I have seen your despatch expressing your unwillingness to break your hold where you are. Neither am I willing. Hold on with a bull-dog gripe, and chew & choke, as much as possible.”

Break Dog Willing Perseverance Where You Are Bulls Choke

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“Again I admonish you not to be turned from your stern purpose of defending your beloved country and its free institutions by any arguments urged by ambitious and designing men, but stand fast to the Union and the old flag.”

Men Country Purpose Design Argument Institutions Unions Perseverance Beloved Flags Ambitious Beloved Country Admonish

Book:The collected works of Abraham Lincoln

Source: The collected works of Abraham Lincoln

“You can do anything you think you can.”

Thinking Can Do Perseverance Optimist Persevere Incurable Disease

Author:Christopher Reeve

“Success depends upon staying power. The reason for failure in most cases is lack of perseverance.”

Reason Cases Depends Perseverance Staying Persevere Determination Perseverance Perseverance And Determination Staying Power Perseverance Motivational Power Failure

Author:J.R. Miller

“For we constantly deal with practical problems, with molders, contractors, derricks, stone-men, ropes, builders, scaffoldings, marble assistants, bronze-men, trucks, rubbish men, plasterers, and what-not else, all the while trying to soar into the blue.”

Trying Problem Deals Blue Perseverance Practicals Soar Truck Rubbish Contractor

Author:Augustus Saint-Gaudens

“I am still learning - how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in the service of what I believe, how to accept when I fail and rejoice when I succeed.”

People Believe Stills Self Use Joy I Believe Challenges Accepting Failing Succeed Perseverance Rejoice

Author:Audre Lorde

“The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed up in these two - common sense and perseverance.”

May Mean Two Motivational Challenges Simple Results Common Business Quality Exercise Ordinary Perseverance Common Sense Inspirational Perseverance

Author:Owen Feltham

“The big challenge is to become all that you have the possibility of becoming. You cannot believe what it does to the human spirit to maximize your human potential and stretch yourself to the limit.”

Believe Humans Doe Bigs Spirit Challenges Possibility Becoming Limits Perseverance Human Spirit Human Potential Challenge Yourself Big Challenges Becoming You Stretching Yourself

Author:Jim Rohn

“It helps, I think, to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith, to endure, to help each other when we stumble or tire, to weep and press on.”

Thinking Long Helping Journey Presses Endure Perseverance Tire Helping Each Other Long Journey

Author:Mary Caroline Richards

“If you are truly flexible and go until... there is really very little you can't accomplish in your lifetime.”

Ifs Littles Motivational Commitment Lifetime Perseverance Accomplish Flexibility Flexible Inspirational Perseverance

Author:Tony Robbins

“Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.”

Pain Turns Endure Perseverance Persist

Author:Ovid

“The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.”

Fall Literature Water Stones Perseverance Dropping

Author:Lucretius

“A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.”

Littles Together Deals Perseverance Grain Barns Arabian

Author:Saadi

“Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the dreary intercourse of daily life, shall ever prevail against us.”

Men Life Evil Kindness Judgment Perseverance Tongue Selfish Daily Life Intercourse Dreary Greetings Sneer Selfish Men

Book:William Wordsworth: Everyman's Poetry

Source: William Wordsworth: Everyman's Poetry

“Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You would be surprised to find how far off they are, for they do not look it. When they first showed last night I tried to knock some down with a pole, but it didn't reach, which astonished me. Then I tried clods till I was all tired out, but I never got one. I did make some close shots, for I saw the black blot of the clod sail right into thee midst of the golden clusters forty or fifty times, just barely missing them, and if I could've held out a little longer, maybe I could've got one.”

Source: The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays

“I am a kind of burr; I shall stick.”

Kind Sticks Perseverance Burrs

Author:William Shakespeare

“By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great.”

Littles Path Gains Perseverance Persistence Forfeit

Book:Self-Reliance and Other Essays

Source: Self-Reliance and Other Essays

“Endurance is the crowning quality.”

Quality Perseverance Endurance

Book:The Poetical Works of James R. Lowell: Complete in Two Volumes

Source: The Poetical Works of James R. Lowell: Complete in Two Volumes

“Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall.”

Ifs Talent Produce Wall Perseverance Holes Traits Overrated Concussions

Author:Sydney J. Harris

“Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.”

Purpose Grows Power Greater Failing Silent Perseverance Irresistible Hash Silent Power

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.”

Men He Man Strive Perseverance Aspire Strife

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. Those that walk with vigor, three hours a day, will pass in seven years a space equal to the circumference of the globe.”

Years Three Hours Space Walks Equal Seven Perseverance Globes Seven Years Great Work Vigor

Book:Rasselas

Source: Rasselas

“It took Einstein ten years of groping through the fog to get the theory of special relativity, and he was a bright guy.”

Years Guy Special Theory Ten Perseverance Fog Relativity

Author:James C. Collins

“You must maintain unwavering faith that you can and will prevail in the end, regardless of the difficulties, AND at the same time, have the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.”

Ends Facts Reality Might Faith Challenges Discipline Difficulty Perseverance Currents Brutal Unwavering Good To Great Unwavering Faith

Author:James C. Collins

“The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude, and perseverance.”

Perseverance Fortitude Deliberation Circumspection

Book:The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1770-1773

Source: The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1770-1773

“Twelve Priceless Qualities of Success: 1. The value of time. 2. The success of perseverance. 3. The pleasure of working. 4. The dignity of simplicity. 5. The worth of character. 6. The power of kindness. 7. The influence of example. 8. The obligation of duty. 9. The wisdom of economy. 10. The virtue of patience. 11. The improvement of talent. 12. The joy of originating.”

“'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause,-and of obstinacy in a bad one.”

Names Causes Known Perseverance Obstinate Good Causes Obstinacy

Author:Laurence Sterne

“Gently eliminating all obstacles to his own understanding, he constantly maintains his unconditional sincerity. His humility, perseverance, and adaptability evoke the response of the universe and fill him with divine light.”

Light Universe Understanding Humility Divine Response Perseverance Obstacles Sincerity Unconditional Evoke Adaptability Eliminating Divine Light

Book:Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu

Source: Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu

“Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.”

Courage Perseverance Harvest Sowing

Author:Seneca the Younger

“There was no such thing as defeat if you didn't accept it.”

Ifs Accepting Perseverance Defeat

Book:Quite contrary

Source: Quite contrary

“At first we hope too much and later on, not enough.”

Inspirational Firsts Enough Hope Too Much Perseverance

Author:Philibert Joseph Roux

“You don't become enormously successful without encountering and overcoming a number of extremely challenging problems.”

Problem Challenges Numbers Successful Overcoming Perseverance

Author:Mark Victor Hansen

“Pay little attention to discouragement as possible. Plough ahead as a steamer does, rough or smooth - rain or shine. To carry your cargo and make your port is the point.”

Littles Doe Pay Attention Rain Shining Perseverance Rough Smooth Port Discouragement Cargo Rain Or Shine

Book:Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock

Source: Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock

“The secret to genius is not genetics but daily practice married with relentless perseverance.”

Inspirational Inspiration Success Secret Practice Genius Married Perseverance Relentless Genetics Buisness

Author:Robin Sharma

“Your choices decide your fate. Take the time to make the right ones. If you make a mistake, that's fine; learn from it & don't make it again.”

“You will make some mistakes but, if you learn from those mistakes, those mistakes will become wisdom and wisdom is essential to becoming wealthy.”

“I'm a big believer in growth. Life is not about achievement, it's about learning and growth, and developing qualities like compassion, patience, perseverance, love, and joy, and so forth. And so if that is the case, then I think our goals should include something which stretches us.”

“The saints must be honored as friends of Christ and children and heirs of God. Let us carefully observe the manner of life of all the apostles, martyrs, ascetics, and just men who announced the coming of the Lord. And let us emulate their faith, charity, hope, zeal, life, patience under suffering, and perseverance unto death so that we may also share their crowns of glory.”

“Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time.”

Matter Leadership Quality Excellence Perseverance Persistence Martial Arts Twins Persist Sister Matter Of Time Patience And Persistence Twin Sister

Book:The Electric Woman

Source: The Electric Woman

“The honor you have given us goes not to us as a crew, but to ... all Americans, who believed, who persevered with us. What Apollo has begun we hope will spread out in many directions, not just in space, but underneath the seas, and in the cities to tell us unforgettably what we will and must do. There are footprints on the moon. Those footprints belong to each and every one of you, to all mankind. They are there because of the blood, sweat, and tears of millions of people. Those footprints are the symbol of true human spirit.”

“The greatest results in life are usually attained by common sense and perseverance.”

Inspirational Results Common Perseverance Common Sense Inspirational Perseverance Great Perseverance

Author:Owen Feltham

“I see the notion of talent as quite irrelevant. I see instead perseverance, application, industry, assiduity, will, will, will, desire, desire, desire.”

Writing Desire Fun Talent Industry Notion Perseverance Application Irrelevant

Author:Gordon Lish

“Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element in prayer.”

Jesus Prayer Christianity Taught Essentials Elements Perseverance Bounds Christian Inspirational

Book:Purpose in Prayer

Source: Purpose in Prayer

“Perseverance isn't just the willingness to work hard. It's that plus the willingness to be stubborn about your own belief in yourself.”

Hard Success Belief Sports Hard Work Perseverance Plus Willingness Stubborn Belief In Yourself

Author:Merlin Olsen

“Champions take responsibility. When the ball is coming over the net, you can be sure I want the ball.”

Want Success Sports Responsibility Balls Perseverance Persistence Champion Tennis Taking Responsibility

Author:Billie Jean King