#sever

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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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Women are never so strong as after their defeat.


Alexandre Dumas


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To reach a port we must set sail – Sail, not tie at anchor Sail, not drift.


Franklin D. Roosevelt


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You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost power of your mind. If one way does not lead to the desired meaning, take another; if obstacles arise, then still another; until, if your strength holds out, you will find that clear which at first looked dark.


Giovanni Boccaccio


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You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more." ("The Castle")


Michael Connelly


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A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.


Charles de Gaulle


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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


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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.


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