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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
I'm not a genius.
I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Patience, persistence, and perseverance.
A little more each day, a little better each day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?
- Henry David Thoreau
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The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools,
but the gentle touches of air and water
working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
- Henry David Thoreau
You are never given a wish without also
being given the power to make it true.
You may have to work for it, however.
- Richard Bach
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb
Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.
You have only to persevere to save yourselves.
- Winston Churchill
The sum of wisdom is that
time is never lost that is devoted to work.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never, never, never give up.
- Winston Churchill
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman,
before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
- John Quincy Adams
Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.
- Virgil
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
Keep moving. Don't stop. But don't rush.
Don't race around.
Sure and steady gets you there every time.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Genius is one percent inspiration
and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
- Thomas Edison
It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill
When you find your path, you must not be afraid.
You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes.
Disappointment, defeat, and despair are
the tools God uses to show us the way.
- Paulo Coelho
We can do anything we want to
if we stick to it long enough.
- Helen Keller
A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
- George Savile
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
There's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.
- the character Morpheus in the movie The Matrix
Ideas, yes.
Inspiration, yes.
Creativity, yes.
Planning, yes.
Perseverance, yes.
More perseverance, yes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I think and think for months and years.
Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false.
The hundredth time I am right.
- Albert Einstein
If a warrior is to succeed at anything,
the success must come gently,
with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.
- Carlos Castaneda
The probability that we may fail
in the struggle ought not to deter us
from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
- Abraham Lincoln
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
- Benjamin Disraeli
The key to everything is patience.
You get the chicken by hatching the egg,
not by smashing it open.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
Life is not about how fast you run
or how high you climb
but how well you bounce.
- Vivian Komori
It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
- Eddie Cantor
No great thing is created suddenly.
- Epictetus
The price of success is hard work,
dedication to the job at hand,
and the determination that whether we win or lose,
we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
- Vince Lombardi
Nothing is softer or more flexible than water,
yet nothing can resist it.
- Lao Tzu
When the water starts boiling
it is foolish to turn off the heat.
- Nelson Mandela
A little more persistence,
a little more effort, and
what seemed hopeless failure
may turn to glorious success.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
- Benjamin Franklin
Persistence prevails when all else fails.
- Anonymous
The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
- Herbert Kaufman
When you get into a tight place
and everything goes against you,
till it seems you cannot hold on a minute longer,
never give up then, for that is just
the place and time the tide will turn.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
You can have anything you want -
if you want it badly enough.
You can be anything you want to be,
do anything you set out to accomplish
if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
- Abraham Lincoln
Patience, persistence and perspiration
make an unbeatable combination for success.
- Napoleon Hill
Balance activity with serenity,
wealth with simplicity,
persistence with innovation,
community with solitude,
familiarity with adventure,
constancy with change,
leading with following.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The world will persist in exhibiting before you
what you persist in affirming the world is.
- Emma Curtis Hopkins
In the councils of government,
we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence,
whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power
exists and will persist.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence,
whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
The potential for the disastrous rise
of misplaced power exists and will persist.
We must never let the weight of this combination
endanger our liberties or democratic processes.
We should take nothing for granted.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower in his Farewell Address of January, 17 1961
What you resist, persists.
- Carl Jung
The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace.
A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being
that places harmony in one's life.
- Peace Pilgrim
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy
Life's most persistent and urgent question is,
'What are you doing for others?'
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
- Albert Einstein
He who is persistent will realize God.
So try your best to make meditation
a regular experience in your life.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
The distinction between the past, present and future
is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
- Albert Einstein
A little simplification would be
the first step toward rational living.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts;
wisdom lies in their simplification.
- Martin Fischer
In order to be happy with a man,
you must understand him a lot and love him a little.
To be happy with a woman, you must love her a lot
and not try to understand her at all.
- Helen Rowland
Twinkle, twinkle little bat
How I wonder what you're at!
Up above the world you fly,
Like a tea-tray in the sky.
- Lewis Carroll
Magic is natural to Wizards,
and only a little harder for the rest of us.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Well excuse me - we've got something
a little unusual going on here -
time travel, parallel universes,
or just a little common ordinary insanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If it's true that our species is alone in the universe,
then I'd have to say that the universe
aimed rather low and settled for very little.
- George Carlin
A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother
why the bride changed her mind.
What do you mean? responded her mother.
Well, she went down the aisle with one man,
and came back with another.
- Anonymous
If you can't annoy somebody with what you write,
I think there's little point in writing.
- Kingsley Amis
The seaweed is always greener in somebody else's lake.
- the movie The Little Mermaid (1989)
There is only one thing about which I am certain,
and that is that there is very little
about which one can be certain.
- W. Somerset Maugham
The church is always trying to get other people to reform;
it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little,
by way of example.
- Mark Twain
All you need is love.
But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.
- Charles M. Schulz
Clothes make the man.
Naked people have little or no influence on society.
- Mark Twain
The trouble with the world is not
that people know too little,
but that they know so many things that ain't so.
- Mark Twain
Mother is the name for God
in the lips and hearts of little children.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
I never accepted the idea
that I had to be guided by
some pattern or blueprint.
- Little Richard
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge:
it is those who know little, and not those who know much,
who so positively assert that this or that problem
will never be solved by science.
- Charles Darwin
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
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