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The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
Sep 17, 2025
We are made to persist. that's how we find out who we are.
Decide carefully, exactly what you want in life, then work like mad to make sure you get it!
Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition.
The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
How long should you try? Until.
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.
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.
Determination is the wake-up call to the human will.
What this power is, I cannot say... All I know is that it exists.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
Champions keep playing until they get it right.
The art of love is largely the art of persistence.
Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.
Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.
Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
Anything is possible, but you have to believe and you have to fight.
Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.
You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.
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.
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.
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.
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.
"Failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.
We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Success ... seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
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.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.