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Perseverance... keeps honor bright: to have done, is to hang quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail in monumental mockery.
Sep 17, 2025
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
The best motto for a long march is 'Don't grumble. Plug on.
Success depends upon staying power. The reason for failure in most cases is lack of perseverance.
Stubbornly persist, and you will find that the limits of your stubbornness go well beyond the stubbornness of your limits
Determination and perseverance move the world; thinking that others will do it for you is a sure way to fail.
The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.
The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, its energy - invincible determination - a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory.
Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.
Decide carefully, exactly what you want in life, then work like mad to make sure you get it!
The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.
Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.
But the moment you turn a corner you see another straight stretch ahead and there comes some further challenge to your ambition.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
Saints are sinners who kept on going.
Try and fail,but don't fail to try.
Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain. The mind does not create what it perceives, anymore than the eye creates the rose.
Buddhism is the most active one! The whole time, we're dealing with the mind and how to tame it, and how to transcend our ordinary conventional mind. This takes an enormous amount of determination and perseverance. It also requires an attitude of being relaxed and spacious, rather than tense and stressed. It's certainly not a matter of lying back and expecting it all to happen. If we don't make it happen, it won't!
If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances.
To believe in yourself and to follow your dreams, to have goals in life and a drive to succeed, and to surround yourself with the things and the people that make you happy. This is success!
People do not lack strength; they lack will.
You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.
Determination is the wake-up call to the human will.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Bob Mathias was one of those rare individuals with the ability to inspire a nation through his determination and perseverance. He was a champion in every aspect of life, and he embraced the values that make our country and the worldwide Olympic movement special
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.
It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.
The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
The best way out is always through.
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
"Failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.
The harder I work the more I live.
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.