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Persistence Quotes
"I am a slow walker, but I never walk back."
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"Work with all your heart, because - I promise - if you show up for your work day after day after day after day. you just might get lucky enough some random morning to burst into bloom."
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"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root."
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"Persistence creates genius; without persistence, there is no winner."
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"For most of the process, nothing but faith, fueled by your own stubbornness, will be pulling you along. The work that you've done on the book so far won't be much comfort, because so much of it will be insufferable crap, until the very last moment, when you figure out how to fix it and everything comes together."
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"In every endeavor, you owe it to yourself to always push until the door of opportunity of opens."
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"Persistence is the source of great strength."
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"He slept that night the sleep of a successfully stubborn man."
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"All my problems bow before my stubbornness."
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"If you want a fried fish to fly and enter your mouth, you must keep waiting till the unending time ends. Dead fish doesn't fly. If you want to eat it, your own hands must carry it."
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"Whatever is difficult for you become easy if you take a bite of it every day. Try again and again!"
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"A rock that perseveres under heat and pressure soon becomes a diamond."
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"Don't give up, try again. Be still and work it out till your good becomes the best! Dream high above the sky!"
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"Live in your dream. Refuse to wake up until it is completely over. Then dream again."
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"God wants us to move persistently towards His goals."
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"With patience, you will finish the race set before you."
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"The most fascinating thing to me about your letter is that buried beneath all the anxiety and sorrow and fear and self-loathing, there's arrogance at its core. It presumes you should be successful at twenty-six, when really it takes most writers much longer to get there."
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"I believe that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there will still be one more sound: that of man's puny, inexhaustible, voice still talking! ...not simply because man alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because man has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion, sacrifice and endurance."
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"Just because many have tried and failed, doesn't make the task impossible."
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"If you continue to hit your head against the wall, don't be surprised if your head hurts."
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"I think people give up, because it's the easy option, but my goodness; why would giving up be easy? Your living your life chasing anything to fill the void of what came about when you let go of everything that mattered? I'd rather fight like mad, for everything that will ever matter, because giving in to anything that doesn't will never cure the dream."
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"Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions."
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"Patience is a virtue, but there comes a moment when you must stop being patient and take the day by the throat and shake it. If it fights back; fine. I'd rather end up bloody at the end of the day, then unhurt with no progress made, no knowledge gained. I'd rather have a no, then nothing. I'd forgotten that about myself."
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"Take the broken pieces of your life, bake a master cake out of it. Don't stand still like a lake; keep flowing like a stream!"
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"Don't give up searching."
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"Sometimes the further away the target, the less you have to try to get there."
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"Giving up isn't a deed. It is 'discontinuity' of a deed."
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"There's a reason why golfers walk forward to their next shot. It's to move on."
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"If you are lacking confidence in something, just keep trying and don't give up."
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"Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time."
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"Everything big, once started little. Use self-control to become an excellent person at what you want. Discipline yourself. Work to build excellent habits. Develop excellent skills and abilities. Doing this over time, insures you will grow at what you want for top success."
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"Never give up because when you give up, dreams get lost."
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"It will get easier each time, I think. I hope. I just have to keep trying."
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"No matter how hard things get, you owe it to yourself to always find a way to persist and persevere until you are greatly rewarded for all your pain and sufferings."
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"Keep trying is success and giving up is failure."
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"The third level of prayer, which is much more serious is knocking."
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"The number one skill in life is not giving up."
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"To pray is to make petition."
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"After spending all of his resources to create all of us, not just one or two people, but in millions and billions and yet, God cannot find a man who will stand for him."
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"Sometimes giving up feels like the easiest thing to do. But then the easiest thing has never produced more than a garden full of weeds."
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"Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence."
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"We all do make mistakes, many times. What is commendable is that you try to find solutions. You just don't give up."
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"When you get a pinch and decide to give up, you will get a cut when you eventually do so. The consequences of giving up are more harmful than the causes. Just don't give up!"
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