Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Quotes for Perseverance

 Perseverance

"On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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"In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins- not through strength but by perseverance." - H. Jackson Brown
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"People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to." -  George E. Allen
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"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." Plutarch
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"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another." Walter Elliott
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"It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it." John Wooden
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"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all."  - Dale Carnegie
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"All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man has taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first." Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Consider the postage stamp; its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there." Josh Billings
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"Some men 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." - Herodotus
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"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.

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