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All the great captains have performed vast achievements by conforming with the rules of art--by adjusting efforts to obstacles.
If hard work, integrity, thrift, and perseverance have caused you to succeed, then you don't owe anyone an apology for winning.
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
Cowards shrink from toil and peril, Vulgar souls attempt and fail; Men of mettle, nothing daunted, Persevere till they prevail.
BJ Novak gets the Perseverance Award for graduating from Harvard and being unemployed for the entire plane ride to Los Angeles.
In all their wars against the French they [the Americans] never showed such conduct, attention and perseverance as they do now.
Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!
How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.
But the moment you turn a corner you see another straight stretch ahead and there comes some further challenge to your ambition.
What people can excel our Northern and New England brethren in skill, invention, activity, energy, perseverance, and enterprise?
Wanting to win isn't enough. You have to go through a process to improve. That takes patience, perseverance, and intentionality.
Those who would attain to any marked degree of excellence in a chosen pursuit must work, and work hard for it, prince or peasant.
All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance.
The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.
If there is one doctrine I have preached more than another, it is the doctrine of the Perseverance of the Saints even to the end.
The whole economy of this lower world proves that it is by labor and perseverance only that good is obtained and evil is avoided.
The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it.
When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.
Emotional self-awareness is the building block of the next fundamental emotional intelligence: being able to shake off a bad mood.
Perhaps the greatest display of self-discipline is persisting when the going gets tough. Persistence is self-discipline in action.
I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It's a voice of pain and victory.
Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
You must be kind to others. You must foster a caretaker personality of gentleness and perseverance, even in the midst of adversity.
If four things are followed - having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance - then anything can be achieved.
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
I also know, as an entrepreneur myself, you face new obstacles every day and you need to have the perseverance to see them through.
I salute you for your courage, and I applaud your perseverance, and I embrace you for your faith in the face of adversarial forces.
Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.
We truly believe with hard work, dedication and perseverance, we can become the best at what we do. No one wants to become mediocre.
A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
To succeed, we must have the will to succeed, we must have stamina, determination, backbone, perseverance, self-reliance, and faith.
Being a godly father requires much perseverance and prayer as we seek God's guidance in being the types of fathers He wants us to be.
I try to penetrate the lane like Steve Nash, pass like Jason Kidd, and handle the ball like Allen Iverson. Remember, I said 'try to'.
To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by.
One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life.
There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.
I believe that I am very lucky to have close friends who are faithful. From my friends, I have learned the importance of perseverance.
If you don't wake up with something in your stomach every day that makes you think, "I want to make this movie," it'll never get made.
Perseverance isn't just the willingness to work hard. It's that plus the willingness to be stubborn about your own belief in yourself.
In perseverance, in self command, in forethought, in all virtues which conduce to success in life, the Scots have never been surpassed.
I try. I am trying. I was trying. I will try. I shall in the meantime try. I sometimes have tried. I shall still by that time be trying.
There are a lot of tricks you have to keep playing on yourself to keep at it because every time you hit a problem you want to walk away.
To make our way, we must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity. We must gear ourselves to work hard all the way. We can never let up.
Every work has got to pass through hundreds of difficulties before succeeding. Those that persevere will see the light, sooner or later.
There is one thing more powerful than kings and all the soldiers in the world, and that is a visionary who has the courage to persevere.
When the story of these times gets written, we want it to say that we did all we could, and it was more than anyone could have imagined.
It's important to me that youth everywhere, no matter their race, religion, or gender, know that anything is possible with perseverance.
We pray to you, O God ... for strength, determination, and willpower, to do instead of just to pray, to become instead of merely to wish.
Perseverance is demonstrated by those who keep going when the going gets tough, who don’t give up even when others say, It can’t be done.