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  Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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  Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit.

  George Allen

  Perseverance, Determination, People

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• Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.

  Joyce Meyer

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Never, never, never give up.

  Winston Churchill

  Motivational, Giving Up, Self Esteem

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• Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

  Bill Bradley

  Positive, Perseverance, Encouragement

  "Toni’s Take on Real Estate: The Three ‘P’s You Need" by Toni Haber, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 30, 2012.

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• You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "International Encyclopedia of Prose and Poetical Quotations". Book by William S. Walsh, 1951.

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  Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

  Dale Carnegie

  Life, Motivational, Success

  "A Joke, a Quote, and the Word: Feed Your Body, Soul and Spirit". Book by Ronald P. Keeven, 2006.

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• The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.”

  Theodore Wilhelm Engstrom

  Success, Perseverance, Determination

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• When you hear that something can’t be done, ignore that advice and push forward.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Motivational, Moving On, Success

  Twitter post from Feb 17, 2017

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• Studies indicate that the one quality all successful people have is persistence.

  Joyce Brothers

  Success, Perseverance, People

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• What matters most in a child’s development, they say, is not how much information we can stuff into her brain in the first few years. What matters, instead, is whether we are able to help her develop a very different set of qualities, a list that includes persistence, self-control, curiosity, conscientiousness, grit, and self-confidence. Economists refer to these as noncognitive skills, psychologists call them personality traits, and the rest of us sometimes think of them as character.

  Paul Tough

  Children, Character, Self Confidence

  Paul Tough (2012). “How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• All great successes are the triumph of persistence.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Triumph, Great Success

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• The whole idea of motivation is a trap. Forget motivation. Just do it. Exercise, lose weight, test your blood sugar, or whatever. Do it without motivation. And then, guess what? After you start doing the thing, that's when the motivation comes and makes it easy for you to keep on doing it.

  John C. Maxwell

  Motivational, Exercise, Blood

  John C. Maxwell (2007). “Failing Forward”, p.43, Harper Collins

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• Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Perseverance, Jobs, Writing

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• Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Encouragement, Goal

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• Paralyze resistance with persistence.

  Woody Hayes

  Perseverance, Failure, Adversity

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• To make our way, we must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity. We must gear ourselves to work hard all the way. We can never let up.

  Ralph Bunche

  Motivational, Success, Perseverance

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• We are made to persist. that's how we find out who we are.

  Tobias Wolff

  Perseverance, Determination, Who We Are

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  Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.1250, Faber & Faber

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• I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Inspirational, Success, Leadership

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• And you very soon find out, if you have not found it out before, that patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

  Thomas Huxley

  Inspirational, Life, Patience

  "Critiques and Addresses".

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• Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Patience, Water, Perfection

  Rabindranath Tagore (2007). “Stray Birds”, p.22, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• If you are doing all you can to the fullest of your ability as well as you can, there is nothing else that is asked of a soul.

  Gary Zukav

  Soul, Ability, Wells

  Gary Zukav (1999). “The Seat of the Soul”, G K Hall & Company

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• In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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