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• Talent isn't enough. You need motivation-and persistence, too: what Steinbeck called a blend of faith and arrogance. When you're young, plain old poverty can be enough, along with an insatiable hunger for recognition. You have to have that feeling of "I'll show them." If you don't have it, don't become a writer.

  Leon Uris

  Motivation, Insatiable Hunger, Feelings

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• The persistence of an all-absorbing idea is terrible.

  Victor Hugo

  Ideas, Terrible, Absorbing

  Victor Hugo, Frank Lee Benedict (1874). “Ninety-three”, p.204, Dawson Bros.

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• Nothing succeeds like persistence. The common denominator of all successful people is their persistence.

  Roger Delano Hinkins

  Perseverance, Successful, People

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• We deprive our children, our charges, of persistence. What I am trying to say is that we need to fail, children need to fail, we need to feel sad, anxious and anguished. If we impulsively protect ourselves and our children, as the feel-good movement suggests, we deprive them of learning-persistence skills.

  Martin Seligman

  Children, Skills, Feel Good

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• I've heard a lot of great success stories from writers - how so many of them struggled to get where they are and how persistence pays off. I learned that some writers are good at doing readings and some are not so good at it.

  Kevin Sampsell

  Reading, Stories, Pay

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• We bow our heads in respect for those Soviet women who displayed exceptional courage in the severe time of war. Never before but during the days of the war the grandeur of spirit and the invincible will of our Soviet women, their selfless dedication, loyalty and affection to their Homeland, their boundless persistence in work and their heroism on the front manifested themselves with such strength.

  Leonid Brezhnev

  Loyalty, War, Dedication

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• The Internet is a medium only at the bit level. At the human level, it is a conversation that, because of the persistence and linkedness of pages, has elements of a world. It could only be a medium if we absolutely didn't care about it.

  David Weinberger

  Elements, World, Levels

  "The Internet is not a medium". Hyperorg.com, March 27, 2004.

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• Perhaps the heroic element in our natures is exhibited to the best advantage, not in going from success to success, and so on through a series of triumphs, but in gathering, on the very field of defeat itself, the materials for renewed efforts, and in proceeding, with no abatement of heart or energy, to form fresh designs upon the very ruins and ashes of blasted hopes. Yes, it is this indomitable persistence in a purpose, continued alike through defeat and success, that makes, more than aught else, the hero.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Hero, Heart, Design

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• The recalcitrant forces in the historical drama have a power and persistence beyond our reckoning.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Drama, Historical, Reckoning

  Reinhold Niebuhr (2010). “The Irony of American History”, p.3, University of Chicago Press

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• A man without persistence will never make a good shaman or a good physician.

  Confucius

  Men, Physicians

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• While persistence offers no guarantees, it does give 'luck' a chance to operate.

  Tom Shippey

  Giving, Luck, Guarantees

  Tom Shippey (2014). “The Road to Middle-earth: Revised and Expanded Edition”, p.183, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Lack of persistence is one of the major causes of failure. Moreover, experience with thousands of people has proved that lack of persistence is a weakness common to the majority of men. It is a weakness which may be overcome with effort.

  Napoleon Hill

  Men, People, Effort

  Napoleon Hill, Steve Berges (2010). “Think and Grow Rich: Collector's Edition”, p.177, American Liberty Press

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• Friendships offer good practice in accepting the transience of experience and the persistence of feeling.

  Stephanie Mills

  Friendship, Practice, Feelings

  Stephanie Mills (2003). “Epicurean Simplicity”, p.123, Island Press

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• Writing is the only thing I've ever done with persistence, except for being married.

  Richard Ford

  Writing, Done, Married

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• I give you points for persistence, but you lose a few for being slow on the uptake. (Rae)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Giving, Loses

  Sherrilyn Kenyon, Dianna Love (2009). “Whispered Lies”, p.300, Simon and Schuster

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• My father had a very simple view of life: you don’t get anything for nothing. Everything has to be earned, through work, persistence and honesty. My father also had a deep charm, the gift of winning our trust.  He was the kind of man with whom many people dream of spending an evening.

  Grace Kelly

  Dream, Honesty, Father

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Persistence, persistence, and persistence. The Power can be created and maintained through daily practice - continuous effort.

  Bruce Lee

  Practice, Effort, Continuous Effort

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.126, Tuttle Publishing

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  Anything is possible. You can be told that you have a 90-percent chance or a 50-percent chance or a 1-percent chance, but you have to believe, and you have to fight.

  Lance Armstrong

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Genius is perseverance in disguise.

  Mike Newlin

  Softball, Perseverance, Genius

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• Only the [Catholic] Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler’s campaign for suppressing truth. I never had any special interest in the Church before, but now I feel a great affection and admiration because the Church alone has had the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual truth and moral freedom. I am forced thus to confess that what I once despised I now praise unreservedly.

  Albert Einstein

  Catholic, Intellectual, Special

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  The best way out is always through.

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  North of Boston (1914) "Servant to Servants"

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• When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

  Napoleon Hill

  Motivational, Attitude, Failure

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.92, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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  The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.

  George Santayana

  Motivational, Perseverance, Courage

  Quoted in Reader's Digest, Nov. 1939 See Calonne 1; Nansen 1; Trollope 3

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• Get going. Move forward. Aim High. Plan a takeoff. Don't just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won't happen. Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you'll love it up here.

  Donald Trump

  Inspirational, Positive, Moving On

  Donald Trump (2004). “Trump: How to get rich ; and; Think like a billionaire”

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• If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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