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Perseverance
Slow and steady wins the race.
- Aesop
Perseverance is failing nineteen
times and succeeding the twentieth.
- Julie Andrews
The difference between perseverance
and obstinacy is that one often comes
from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
Henry Ward Beecher
Perseverance is not a long race;
it is many short races one after another.
- Walter Elliott
There are a lot of tricks you have
to keep playing on yourself to
keep at it because every time you hit a problem you want to walk away.
- Janet Fish
Energy shifts, the mind chatters,
but I shall persevere in keeping
that internal critic from raining on my parade.
- Martine Gourbault
How many a man has thrown up his
hands at a time when a little
more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success?
- Elbert Hubbard
Great works are performed not by
strength but by perseverance.
- Samuel Johnson
Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It's always too early to quit.
- Norman Vincent Peale
The pain passes, but the beauty
remains.
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir, explaining why he still painted
when his hands were twisted with arthritis
It's not the size of the dog in
the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
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