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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."


"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."


"There will be moments in your life, when it seems you can no longer go on and you want to give up everything."


"If you were able to fall a hundred times as a child and rise, you are able to fall a thousand times as a grown up and soar."


"Ordinary people think you are crazy when you attempt the impossible, deride you when you are halfway to achieving it, and envy you when you achieve it."


"The gospel of the kingdom talks about perseverance."


"I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It's a voice of pain and victory."


"Without delayed gratification, there is no patience."


"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."


"If beautiful lilies bloom in ugly waters, you too can blossom in ugly situations."


"Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around."


"Present trials strengthen you for future blessings."


"Stumbling up a hill strengthens you more than sprinting down a mountain."


"People who don't have patience don't achieve anything in life."


"Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire."


"We may train or peek for a certain race, but running is a lifetime sport."


"I think one of the most important attributes is perseverance."


"Joy of harvest belongs only to those who endure the pain of sowing."


"Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again."


"believe that giving up is the same thing as being realistic."


"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."


"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."


"It's not about winning. But it's about not giving up. If you have a dream, fight for it."


"Persistent work always brings a person successful results."


"A star that is determined to shine cannot be hidden, not even by darkness."


"Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th."


"A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down."


"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."


"If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try, try, try again."


"To succeed, one must be creative and persistent."


"To achieve our goals we need perseverance."


"A 41-inch bust and a lot of perseverance will get you more than a cup of coffee - a lot more."


"A star will shine in the midst of darkness. A flower will bloom in the midst of dirt. A camel will flourish in the midst of doubt. A diamond will form in the midst of pressure. A champion will rise in the midst of hardship."


"Failure is only but a temporary phenomenon."


"Success is climbing all the way up failure's steep ladder."


"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other."


"Often when we are on the path to success we come across obstacles that seem to be like mountains."


"My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you've got to be a filmmaker."


"Our young men and women must be taught that through hard work, they can create opportunities for themselves and others."


"To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity."


"'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause, and of obstinacy in a bad one."


"The greatest fight is when you are fighting in the smoke and cannot see with your eyes."


"It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them."


"In order to fulfil our life mission we also need to develop perseverance."


"You don't stop planting corn because weeds are going to grow beside it."


"Be focused and God will grant you great success."


"True champions, like the sun, cannot be eclipsed for long."
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