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"There may be no heroic connotation to the word persistence but the quality is to your character what carbon is to steel."
Napoleon Hill (1883-1970), author of Think and Grow Rich

"The majority of people are ready to throw their aims and purposes overboard, and give up at the first sign of opposition or misfortune. A few carry on DESPITE all opposition, until they attain their goal. These few are the Fords, Carnegies, Rockefellers, and Edisons. There may be no heroic connotation to the word persistence, but the quality is to the character of man what carbon is to steel."
-- Napoleon Hill

"The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't."
-- Henry Ward Beecher

"Energy and persistence conquer all things."
-- Benjamin Franklin

"I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult... I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking."
-- Og Mandino

"If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, "Here comes number seventy-one!"
-- Richard M. Devos

"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 Borg

"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men 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, 30th President of the United States, 1932

"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish."
-- John Quincy Adams (1767-1848), 6th President of the USA

"Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody."
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth!"
-- Julie Andrews

"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another."
-- Walter Elliott

"Sticking to it is the genius! Any other bright-minded fellow can accomplish just as much as I did if he will stick like hell and remember nothing that's any good works by itself. You got to make the damn thing work. I'll never give up, for I may have a streak of luck before I die."- Thomas Edison, inventor and scientist, and master of PERSISTENCE

"Persistence is insurance against failure."
-- Earl Nightingale

"The power to shape the future is earned through persistence. No other quality is as essential to success. It is the sandpaper that breaks down all resistance and sweeps away all obstacles. It is the ability to move mountains one grain of sand at a time."
-- Unknown (Attributed to Former U.S. President Calvin Coolidge)

"Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning."
-- Dennis Waitley

"Through perseverance many people win success out of what seems destined to be certain failure."
-- Benjamin Disraeli

"Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do."
-- Pope John XXIII

"The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second, which comes with a sort of mastery."
-- Janet Erskine Stuart, educator and writer

"Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit."
-- Napoleon Hill

"I think I'd like to be remembered as someone who beat the odds through just plain determination. ... that I persevered. Because I think that being somewhat of a pest to life, constantly plaguing and pursuing, will bring results."
-- Sylvester Stallone, actor

"People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most people succeed because they are determined to."
-- George E. Allen (1832-1907), publisher and author

"Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew."
-- St. Francis de Sales (1527-1622) bishop of Geneva and Roman Catholic saint

"A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence."
-- Jim Watkins

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there."
-- Josh Billings

"Continuous excellent effort, not maximum strength or superior IQ, is the key to unlocking your potential as an achiever."
-- Greg Werner {Strength & Conditioning Coach}

"Even the woodpecker owes his success to the fact that he uses his head and keeps pecking away until he finishes the job he starts."
-- Coleman Cox

"I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult... I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking."
-- Og Mandino

"Luck favors the persistent. This simple truth is a fundamental cornerstone of successful company builders. The builders of visionary companies were highly persistent, living to the motto: Never, never, never give up."
-- James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras: Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."
-- Dale Carnegie