#persist

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

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Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. ↗

— Hal Borland

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You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence. ↗

— Octavia Butler

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Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

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

— Dale Carnegie

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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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

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Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event. ↗

— George Gissing

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Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them. ↗

— John Drinkwater

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Ambition is the path to success, persistence is the vehicle you arrive in. ↗

— William Eardley IV

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