Perseverance
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- For suffering and enduring there is no remedy but striving and doing.
- For water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.
- For we pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self-denial, anxiety and discouragement.
- Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.
- Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently.
- Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.
- Genius begins great works, labor alone finishes them.
- Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
- Genius is only great patience.
- Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it.
- Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.
- Give thanks for what you are now, and keep fighting for what you want to be tomorrow.
- Give us grit. Give us grace. Give us gumption.
- Give yourself fully to your endeavors. Decide to construct your character through excellent actions and determine to pay the price of a worthy goal. The trials you encounter will introduce you to your strengths.
- Giving up is the easiest thing in the world. That’s why so many people do it.Mike TysonCommonly attributed
- Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.
- Great determination can overcome most odds.
- Great men are ordinary men with extra ordinary determination.
- Great souls endure in silence.
- Great tenacity of purpose is the only thing that will carry you over the hard places which appear in every career to ultimate triumph.
- Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance; yonder palace was raised by single stones, yet you see its height and spaciousness. He that shall walk with vigour three hours a day, will pass in seven years a space equal to the circumference of the globe.
- Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance.
- Greatly begin! Though thou have time But for a line, be that sublime—Not failure, but low aim is crime.
- Grit is the grain of character. It may generally be described as heroism materialized,--spirit and will thrust into heart, brain, and backbone, so as to form part of the physical substance of the man.
- Growth is uncomfortable. Not growing is worse.
- Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping.
- Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.
- Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.
- Hard times are opportunities to give yourself proof that even this couldn’t stop you.
- Have a dream, sacrifice for it, and never ever rest in the middle.
- Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
- He only earns his freedom and existence who daily conquers them anew.
- He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.
- He that has patience may compass anything.
- He that labours in any great or laudable undertaking, has his fatigues first supported by hope, and afterwards rewarded by joy.
- He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
- He who keeps steadily on without pausing, will reach the end of his path and the summit of perfection.
- He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
- He who wants hard hands must not, at sight of the first blister, fling away the spade, the rake, the broad ax or the hoe; for the blister is a primary condition to the needed hardness.
- History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.