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  If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.

  W. C. Fields

  Topics in Humor, Success

  Tags in Persistence, Again
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  Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

  Colin Luther Powell

  Topics in Failure, Perfection, Success, Work

  Tags in Learning, Loyalty, Persistence

• Education will not take the place of persistence the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘press on’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Topics in Education

  Tags in Persistence, Determination
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  Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

  Thomas Alva Edison

  Topics in Genius, Inspirational, Work

  Tags in Persistence, Percent

• There is no failure except in no longer trying.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Topics in Failure, Inspirational, Success

  Tags in Persistence

• In this world, there is nothing softer or thinner than water. But to compel the hard and unyielding, it has no equal. That the weak overcomes the strong, that the hard gives way to the gentle — this everyone knows. Yet no one asks accordingly.

  Lao Tzu

  Topics in Kindness

  Tags in Persistence
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  Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there’s love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.

  Ella Fitzgerald

  Topics in Failure, Inspirational, Love

  Tags in Persistence, Influential
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  Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

  Thomas Alva Edison

  Topics in Failure, Inspirational, Life, Success

  Tags in People, Persistence, Realize, Perseverance

• Communication is a skill that you can learn. It’s like riding a bicycle or typing. If you’re willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of every part of your life.

  Brian Tracy

  Topics in Life, Wisdom

  Tags in Persistence, Learning, Communication

• Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

  Brian Tracy

  Topics in Life, Progress, Wisdom

  Tags in Persistence, Gratitude

• The heights by great men reached and kept / Were not attained by sudden flight, / But they, while their companions slept, / Were toiling upward in the night.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Topics in Inspirational, Success, Work

  Tags in Persistence

• As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.

  Denis Waitley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Persistence

• My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.

  Bjorn Rune Borg

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Persistence
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  The best way out is always through.

  Robert Frost

  Topics in Failure

  Tags in Persistence, Courage

• Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one’s own genes in the generations to follow.

  Lewis Thomas

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Persistence, Economics

• Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

  John Quincy Adams

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Persistence, Patience, Courage, Difficulties

• Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people 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. The slogan ‘press on’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Persistence, Perseverance, Talent, Determination

• What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Topics in Inspirational, Power

  Tags in Persistence, Exists, Exactly, Determination

• What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.

  Viktor Emil Frankl

  Topics in Suffering

  Tags in Change/Growth, Doubt/Uncertainty, Persistence, Character, Purpose, Meaning

• An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

  Victor Hugo

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Persistence, Readiness, Creativity