Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
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Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.
You've got to say, "I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it." It's called perseverance.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.
We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.
Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain. The mind does not create what it perceives, anymore than the eye creates the rose.
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.
Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.
What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.
If you are truly flexible and go until... there is really very little you can't accomplish in your lifetime.
Try and fail,but don't fail to try.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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