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Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
- Lao Tzu (Chinese Proverb) 
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
Do you feel stuck?
Whether in a project, a job, a relationship,
or some other situation,
there is a time for perseverance,
and a time for letting go and moving on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman,
before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
- John Quincy Adams
I won't give up 'til goats sing and walruses fly.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it.
Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
- Epictetus
Patience, persistence, and perseverance.
A little more each day, a little better each day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You must do the thing that you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
- Moliere
Ideas, yes.
Inspiration, yes.
Creativity, yes.
Planning, yes.
Perseverance, yes.
More perseverance, yes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In the confrontation between the stream and the rock,
the stream always wins -
not through strength but by perseverance.
- The Buddha
Never give up on the most important goals in your life.
Never give up on your life purpose.
Never give up on your core values.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
- George Savile
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence -
is the key to unlocking our potential.
- Winston Churchill
As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth,
so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind.
To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again.
To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over
the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
- Henry David Thoreau
The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius
The majority of men meet with failure
because of their lack of persistence
in creating new plans to take
the place of those which fail.
- Napoleon Hill
If patience is worth anything,
it must endure to the end of time.
And a living faith will last
in the midst of the blackest storm.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb
The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
- Herbert Kaufman
Never, never, never give up.
- Winston Churchill
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
- Vince Lombardi
Genius is one percent inspiration
and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
- Thomas Edison
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison
I think and think for months and years.
Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false.
The hundredth time I am right.
- Albert Einstein
Life is not about how fast you run
or how high you climb
but how well you bounce.
- Vivian Komori
Keep moving. Don't stop. But don't rush.
Don't race around.
Sure and steady gets you there every time.
- Neale Donald Walsch
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
- Benjamin Disraeli
The harder you fall the higher you bounce.
- Horace
The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
The way lies in softness and patience,
as the softest water cuts through the hardest rock.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing is softer or more flexible than water,
yet nothing can resist it.
- Lao Tzu
Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.
- Virgil
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Nelson Mandela
It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
- Eddie Cantor
Achievement seems to be connected with action.
Successful men and women keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton
Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.
You have only to persevere to save yourselves.
- Winston Churchill
The season of failure is the best time
for sowing the seeds of success.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
The greatest test of courage on earth
is to bear defeat without losing heart.
- Robert Ingersoll
There is a fine line between
the perseverance of the courageous tortoise
and the habit of the stubborn donkey.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The marvelous richness of human experience
would lose something of rewarding joy
if there were no limitations to overcome.
The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful
if there were no dark valleys to traverse.
- Helen Keller
Great works are performed not by strength,
but by perseverance.
- Samuel Johnson
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not;
nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not;
unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not;
the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
- Calvin Coolidge
No greater thing is created suddenly,
any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.
If you tell me that you desire a fig,
I answer you that there must be time.
Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
- Epictetus
If you wish to succeed in life,
make perseverance your bosom friend,
experience your wise counselor,
caution your elder brother,
and hope your guardian genius.
- Joseph Addison
Football is like life - it requires perseverance,
self-denial, hard work, sacrifice,
dedication and respect for authority.
- Vince Lombardi
Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme.
Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful.
Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just.
Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.
- Lao Tzu
There is a fine line between perseverance and insanity.
At what point have you tried your best,
and it's time to do something different?
It's a balance - a paradox.
If you get in the habit of giving up
as soon as something gets difficult,
your life won't work,
but if you keep tilting at windmills -
madly trying the same thing again and again,
your life also won't work.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Persevere. Plan. Strategize. Focus. Breathe. Write.
Let go: relax. Forgive. All this failing: take a nap.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Dream. Begin. Persevere.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A hero is an ordinary individual
who finds the strength to persevere
and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
- Christopher Reeve
Persevere in moving toward highly worthwhile but difficult goals.
In smaller issues, take an easier course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Protect your vision.
Prevail over adversity.
Persevere in the midst of turmoil.
Passionately act upon your convictions.
Purposely walk into the day.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The way of success:
Visualize the end result,
Plan, Take action, Persevere,
Re-plan, Take action, Persevere.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is patient, love is kind.
It does not envy, it does not boast,
It is not proud. It does not dishonor others,
It is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered,
It keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil
but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts,
always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails.
- Corinthians 13:4-8 (NIV)
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Victory has a thousand fathers,
but defeat is an orphan.
- John F. Kennedy
The problems of victory are more agreeable
than those of defeat,
but they are no less difficult.
- Winston Churchill
To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets,
but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.
- Abraham Lincoln
Deserve Victory.
- Terry Goodkind
Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror,
victory however long and hard the road may be;
for without victory, there is no survival.
- Winston Churchill
Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory.
It can no longer serve to settle disputes...
can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.
- John F. Kennedy
How could man rejoice in victory
and delight in the slaughter of men?
- Lao Tzu
Life always rides in strength to victory,
not through internationalism...
but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment,
full effort is full victory.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Confidence is half of victory.
- Yiddish Proverb
It is better to conquer yourself
than to win a thousand battles.
Then the victory is yours.
It cannot be taken from you,
not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
- The Buddha
When people get caught up with that which is right
and they are willing to sacrifice for it,
there is no stopping point short of victory.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The expert in battle seeks his victory
from strategic advantage
and does not demand it from his men.
- Sun Tzu
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