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• That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Resolve in advance to persist until you succeed, no matter what the difficulty.

  Brian Tracy

  Matter, Succeed, Difficulty

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Jan 27, 2013

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• We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Would Be, Committees, Meetings

  Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The Colby essays ...”

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• I will persist until I succeed!

  Og Mandino

  Bodybuilding, Succeed

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World”, p.55, Bantam

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• The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.

  Lucretius

  Motivational, Wisdom, Stay Strong

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• He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Perseverance

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.250, GENERAL PRESS

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• What this power is, I cannot say... All I know is that it exists.

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Positive, Spiritual, Determination

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• The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Funny, Success

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• 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

  Inspirational, Success, Perseverance

  'The Ladder of Saint Augustine' (1850)

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• Commend while others are criticizing, persist while others are quitting

  William Arthur Ward

  Frowning, Quitting, Criticize

  William Arthur Ward, “Believe while others”

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• In the midst of death life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Light, Darkness, Life Death

  Address at Kingsley Hall, delivered 17 October 1931, London

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• A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an ugly past when the ravages persist into the present. America owes a debt of justice which it has only begun to pay.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Past, America, Justice

  "Where Do We Go from Here : Chaos or Community?". Book by Martin Luther King, Jr., p. 109, 1967.

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• No culture in history has ever embraced moral relativism and survived. Our own culture, therefore, will either (1) be the first, and disprove history's clearest lesson, or (2) persist in its relativism and die, or (3) repent of its relativism and live. There is no other option.

  Peter Kreeft

  Culture, Lessons, Firsts

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• In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.

  Thomas Merton

  Responsibility, Self Improvement, Analysis

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.12, Shambhala Publications

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• God did not write a book and send it by messenger to be read at a distance by unaided minds. He spoke a Book and lives in His spoken words, constantly speaking His words and causing the power of them to persist across the years.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Distance, Book, Writing

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• The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Farewell, Nwo, Acquisition

  Farewell radio and television address to the American people, 17 Jan. 1961

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• Persistence is the iron quality of success; if you persist long enough you must eventually succeed

  Brian Tracy

  Persistence, Iron, Long

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Dec 10, 2009

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• Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Mistake, Failure, Philosophical

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• The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as the trade secret of paleontology.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Secret, Paleontology, Records

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• So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge that our victories are contaminated because the game has been rigged to our advantage.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Games, Long, Victory

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• Proactively, and creatively, persist - day in and day out.

  Frank McKinney

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• They [parents] can help the children work out schedules for homework, play, and television that minimize the conflicts involved inwhat to do first. They can offer moral support and encouragement to persist, to try again, to struggle for understanding and mastery. And they can share a child's pleasure in mastery and accomplishment. But they must not do the job for the children.

  Dorothy H Cohen

  Encouragement, Jobs, Children

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• Persistence is important in every endeavor. Whether it's finishing your homework, completing school, working late to finish a project, or "finishing the drill" in sports, winners persist to the point of sacrifice in order to achieve their goals.

  Leon F. "Lee" Ellis

  Sports, School, Sacrifice

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• Poverty arises and persists where corruption is endemic and enterprise is stifled, where basic fairness provided by the rule of law is absent. In such circumstances, poverty is an assault against human dignity, and in that assault lies the natural seed of human anger

  Colin Powell

  Lying, Law, Poverty

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• My three P's would be pray, pray first. Second, prepare, and then persist.

  Tim Scott

  Firsts, Would Be, Three

  "Should government play a role in addressing root causes of Baltimore’s upheaval?". "PBS NewsHour" with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. April 28, 2015.

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