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To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.
Sep 17, 2025
Genius is a will-o'-the-wisp if it lacks a solid foundation of perseverence and fanatical tenacity. This is the most important thing in all of human life.
Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.
Remember, slow and steady wins the race.
Long distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.
In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.
It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
I realized that perseverence and step-by-step progress are the only ways to reach a goal along a chosen path.
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.
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs.
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
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.
Defeat is simply a signal to press onward.
Life's greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never-ending commitment to act until they achieve.
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
By perseverance the snail reached the ark.
Analysis is a glittering opportunity for training: it is just here that capacity for work, perseverence and stamina are cultivated, and these qualities are, in truth, as necessary to a chess player as a marathon runner.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.
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, at whatever cost, must be attained.
Some give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.
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!''
Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.
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.
Perseverance is a positive, active characteristic. It is not idly, passively waiting and hoping for some good thing to happen.
Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
Success ... seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.
I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.
Nothing in this 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.
There is nothing more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
The world is full of educated derelicts.
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you could n't hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that 's just the place and time that the tide'll turn.
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit.
Quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.