#persistence

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

— Dale Carnegie

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The art of love is largely the art of persistence. ↗

— Albert Ellis

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As an early-and-often chronicler of Chicago-on-the-Potomac, I am amazed at the stubborn and clingy persistence of President Barack Obama's snowblowers in the media. See no scandal, hear no scandal, speak no scandal. ↗

— Michelle Malkin

#amazed #barack #hear #i #i am

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

— David Steinberg

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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 alone will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

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When I have tried and failed, I shall have failed. ↗

— Sophocles

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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

#perseverance

You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#writing #success

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

— Tobias Wolff

#trial #trials