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Perseverance Quotes
"I'd look at one of my stonecutters hammering away at the rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet, at the hundred and first blow it would split in two, and I knew it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before."
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"If at first you don't succeed, tweak it before you toss it."
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"I found myself with a perseverance worthy of a much better cause."
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"The U.S. Olympic spirit award is an award that is given to an athlete who embodies the Olympic spirit in more ways than just on the playing field, in showing incredible perseverance, in overcoming obstacles, and what we wanted to do is have everybody can vote on-line."
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"The Christian's journey through life isn't a sprint but a marathon."
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"Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th."
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"I had a rough childhood coming up, and I just took all that negative energy and made it very positive for myself to drive me."
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"If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery--isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you'll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is."
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"When you're at the end of your rope, all you have to do is make one foot move out in front of the other. Just take the next step. That's all there is to it."
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"Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow - that is patience. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time."
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"A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down."
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"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other."
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"What is belief - what is faith - if you don't continue it after failure?"
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"believe that giving up is the same thing as being realistic."
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"Don't ever give up. You gotta keep trying, and never give up."
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"I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It's a voice of pain and victory."
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"The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't."
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"The odds may be stacked against you. Yet, I believe, when you tap into your unique gifts and abilities, while combining them with a sense of purpose, passion, and perseverance, you will not only defy those odds, you will help create a better life for yourself and the rest of us."
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"When you're in hell, you forget how great you really are because you're suffering and you forget the great things you've done."
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"Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around."
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"Hang there like a fruit, my soul, Till the tree die!-Posthumus LeonatusAct V, Scene V."
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"If it didn't work out today, don't feel incapable of achieving it and give up. Learn from it without losing faith and enthusiasm. Tomorrow is another opportunity to try again with a better approach."
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"If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try, try, try again."
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"To succeed, one must be creative and persistent."
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"A 41-inch bust and a lot of perseverance will get you more than a cup of coffee - a lot more."
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"I couldn't believe I'd come this far, lost Tyson, suffered through so much, only to fail - stopped by a big stupid monster in a baby-blue tuxedo kilt. Nobody was going to swat down my friends like that! I mean...nobody, not Nobody. Ah, you know what I mean."
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"There will be moments in your life, when it seems you can no longer go on and you want to give up everything."
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"Present trials strengthen you for future blessings."
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"Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again."
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"No victory without war. No prize without price. No winning without contest."
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"Seeking those elusive individuals is like mining for rare gems. It will take hard work, patience, and a persistent attitude. To find that rich seam of colourful stones, you will have to chip through dirt and rock. You will have to learn how to hold rubble in your hands and see the fortune inside."
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"It was so risky and so scary, and yet at the same time, so beautiful. Maybe the truth was, it shouldn't be easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth. When something's difficult to come by, you'll do that much more to make sure it's even harder -if not impossible- to lose."
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"My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you've got to be a filmmaker."
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"It will take faith, to know success can still be attained regardless of unfairness or disadvantages availed by any system you operate within."
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"Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire."
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"It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them."
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"As a rose blossoms despite being surrounded by thorns, bloom despite being surrounded by troubles."
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"The best way out is always through."
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"Failure brings success to those who don't quit."
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"Sometimes the only path we can maneuver is from the bed to the bathroom. That's okay. Let your journey be what it is . Just keep moving."
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"Triumphing over great difficulties can lead to great happiness."
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"If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation, we shall find manifest examples of premeditation, perseverance, resolution, and consumate artifice, in order to effect their purpose."
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"'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause, and of obstinacy in a bad one."
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"We may train or peek for a certain race, but running is a lifetime sport."
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"Rewards are not simply given, they are earned. Each of your trials and tribulations increases your reward. You are destined for success and greatness beyond measure. So smile to increase your endurance and laugh in the face of adversity."
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"I've learned over a period of years there are setbacks when you come up against the immovable object; sometimes the object doesn't move."
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"I think one of the most important attributes is perseverance."
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