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• You're made to feel ugly, and I made ugly beautiful. Just by sheer persistence. Nobody has the right to say that I am ugly, and I will not be a professional victim, you know. Sorry!

  John Lydon

  Beautiful, Sorry, Ugly

  "This is my Britain. Our Britain. Not some German tourist's" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. May 16, 2002.

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• I don't impose any word count or number-of-hours quota on myself, or have any rules, except one: persistence. Nothing glamorous. No epiphanies. Just revisiting and rewriting. For me, momentum is far more important than inspiration.

  Pam Muñoz Ryan

  Inspiration, Numbers, Important

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• As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.

  Dan Gable

  Sports, Determination, Wrestling

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• Your persistence is your belief in yourself.

  Brian Tracy

  Belief, Belief In Yourself

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• O may I join the choir invisible of those immortal dead who live again in minds made better by their presence; live in pulses stirred to generosity, in deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn for miserable aims that end with self, in thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, and with their mild persistence urge men's search to vaster issues.

  George Eliot

  Stars, Night, Men

  "Oh May I Join the Choir Invisible" l. 1 (1867)

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• Persistence is worth at least as much as talent. The writing life is not a series of gentle encouragements. It's more like a series of brutal kicks in the teeth. Those who grow a thick enough skin to persevere, survive. Those who do not, do not.

  Gardner Dozois

  Encouragement, Writing, Skins

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• For the rest of your life to be as meaningful as possible, engage in spiritual practice if you can. It is nothing more than acting out of concern for others. If you practice sincerely and with persistence, little by little, step by step you will gradually reorder your habits and attitudes so as to think less about your own narrow concerns and more about others' - and thereby find peace and happiness yourself.

  Dalai Lama

  Meaningful, Spiritual, Attitude

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• Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Determination, Military, Force

  Carl von Clausewitz (1956). “On War”, p.1389, Library of Alexandria

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• Persistence means giving full concentration to whatever you are doing right now. ... Persistence is success through trial, error, resetting your goals, and moving toward the target.

  Denis Waitley

  Moving, Mean, Errors

  Denis Waitley (1985). “The Double Win”

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• The adjectives that are in the book ["Win"] - passion, persuasion, persistence, perfection, prioritization, being people-centered - none of them are as important as principles. Without principles, the language will fail.

  Frank Luntz

  Book, Passion, Winning

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  You don't achieve success by "taking it easy" or "working on it later." You achieve it thru persistence and hard work.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Hard Work, Easy, Achieve

  Twitter post from Dec 17, 2013

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• Memory is a dead thing. Memory is not truth and cannot ever be, because truth is always alive, truth is life; memory is persistence of that which is no more.  It is living in ghost world, but it contains us, it is our prison.  In fact it is us.  Memory creates the knot, the complex called the I and the ego

  Rajneesh

  Memories, Ego, Alive

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• What people see as fearlessness is really persistence. Because I am focused on the solution, I don't see the danger.

  Wangari Maathai

  People, Danger, Solutions

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• I have for many years been puzzled by the persistence of Hugh Hefner. Why is he still here?

  Nora Ephron

  Years, Stills, Puzzled

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• How you start is important, but it is how you finish that counts. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter.

  B. C. Forbes

  Race, Important, Speed

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• My message to you all is of hope, courage and confidence. Let us mobilize all our resources in a systematic and organized way and tackle the grave issues that confront us with grim determination and discipline worthy of a great nation.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Courage, Determination, Issues

  Eid-ul-Azha Message to the Nation, October 24, 1947.

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• Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Motivational, Crush, Morning

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• The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

  Robert Hughes

  Inspirational, Motivational, Art

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• In one and the same fire, clay grows hard and wax melts.

  Francis Bacon

  Fire, Clay, Grows

  Francis Bacon, James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, Douglas Denon Heath (2011). “The Works of Francis Bacon”, p.226, Cambridge University Press

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• Keep at it! The one talent that's indispensable to a writer is persistence. You must write the book, else there is no book. It will not finish itself. Do not try to commit art. Just tell the damned story.

  Tom Clancy

  Art, Book, Writing

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• I never thought I didn't have a card to play.

  Jim Lovell

  Play, Cards

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• The list of qualities (an investor should have) include patience, self-reliance, common sense, a tolerance for pain, open-mindedness, detachment, persistence, humility, flexibility, a willingness to do independent research, an equal willingness to admit mistakes, and the ability to ignore general panic.

  Peter Lynch

  Pain, Mistake, Humility

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

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• Through persistence and hard work, we can each unlock the potential God has given us. We have within us not only the capacity to accomplish great things but also the ability to do ordinary things in extraordinary ways.

  Lloyd D. Newell

  Hard Work, Ordinary, Way

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• Persistence isn't using the same tactics over and over. Persistence is having the same goal over and over.

  Seth Godin

  Goal, Tactics

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