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Sheer persistence is the difference between success and failure.
Sep 16, 2025
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.
Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
I shall either find a way, or make one (attributed)
I will either find a way or make one.
Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition.
The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
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.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
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.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Life is not for the faint of heart.
Leadership is not for the faint of heart
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.
I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Nelson Mandela said: 'It always seems impossible until it's done.' Peace is possible.
Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
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.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
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.
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
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.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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