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Persistence Quotes
"You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do."
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"The thoughts that you will never make it comes to every person who ever did something great in their lives."
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"Energy and persistence conquer all things."
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"A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit."
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"The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to thing when you have outlived the first interest and not yet the second which comes with a sort of mastery."
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"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."
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"There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying."
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"It took me nine months to write 60 pages. It was very frustrating."
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"It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race."
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"I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full."
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"One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake."
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"If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything."
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"Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?"
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"The person who receives the most favors is the one who knows how to return them."
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"When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal."
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"We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!"
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"When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row."
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"No matter - tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . And then one fine morning-So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
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"You've got to stick at a thing, a particular thing, until you succeed.I feel that's the only way to succeed - by concentrating on something in particular. Once you know what you've got to do you will succeed, you will succeed."
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"But that is the only thing that slows me down is the system. No one, two or three was big enough to slow me down, only the system. It was the system that slowed me down to make my numbers fall. Not because I am older."
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"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."
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"You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead."
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"Evil in general does not sleep, and therefore doesn't see why anyone else should."
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"The reason people fail to reach their goals is because they give up too early. They don't understand that most successes are built upon foundations of multiple attempts."
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"Don't run away from the gains because it comes with pains. If you ever love to go for the sweet honey, be ready to be stung by a busy bee! Go for it anyway!"
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"I'll keep doing it until I die or the audiences die."
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"The hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second which comes with a sort of mastery."
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"It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head."
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"I rewrote it and I took all your notes. Read it again, that kind of persistence paid off."
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"The struggle you're in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow. Don't give up."
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"Don't take the will for the deed; get the deed."
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"Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls."
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"The cream rises to the top, even if sour."
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"Persistence is the pillar of success."
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"How easy it is to slip.How hard it is to climb.How wise it is to keep in stepAnd never fall behind."
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"If you are going to devote your time to do something you claim you love, take this thought; "Can I pursue this till the end? Am I sure I will never give up on it?" This is persistence."
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"Technically, the last number of years, partially from the injury, it's been difficult to push forward but I felt even before the injury that I still could do more and was sort of at a stalemate."
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"Persistence with hope has infinite power, it can create new ways when there is no way."
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"You should persist long enough to conquer."
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"What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended."
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"Win or lose, at least I'm doing something."
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"Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything."
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