#persist

You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

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One of the strongest and most persistent elements in national development has been that inheritance of political traditions and usages which the new settlers brought with them. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

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Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently. ↗

— Maya Angelou

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

— Hal Borland

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

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Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by. ↗

— Ovid

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This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation. ↗

— Carroll Quigley

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I rewrote it and I took all your notes. Read it again, that kind of persistence paid off. ↗

— David Steinberg

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Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?' ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

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