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Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.
Marie Curie
If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, Here comes number seventy-one!
Richard M. DeVos
I am confident. I never give up.
Arantxa Sanchez Vicario
I never gave up, even when people told me I'd never make it.
Bob Wickman
Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There is genius in persistence. It conquers all opposers. It gives confidence. It annihilates obstacles. Everybody believes in a determined man. People know that when he undertakes a thing, the battle is half won, for his rule is to accomplish whatever he sets out to do.
Orison Swett Marden
Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. James 1:4
Bible
For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised. Hebrews 10:36
For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again. Proverbs 24:16
The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.
Napoleon Hill
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in raising up every time we fail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To become a champion, fight one more round.
Anonymous
Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way.
Jeremy Collier
No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Never say die.
Proverb
It matters if you just don't give up.
Stephen Hawking
If someone takes your coat, give him your cloak as well; if he makes you go a mile with him, go with him two. Mathew
Boys, there ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got the raw deals. You've got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it. It's called perseverance.
Lee Iacocca
You've got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it. It's called perseverance.
Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.
C. H. (Charles Haddon) Spurgeon