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    Maya Angelou
    “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: character, consistency, courage, determination, essence, ethos, fortitude, goodness, inspiration, life-lessons, persistence, resolve, self-reliance, strength, virtue, virtues
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
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    Robert Frost
    “The best way out is always through.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: feelings, persistence, problems
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    Tupac Shakur
    “Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete? Proving nature's laws wrong, it learned to walk without having feet. Funny, it seems to by keeping it's dreams; it learned to breathe fresh air. Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else even cared.”
    ― Tupac Shakur, The Rose That Grew From Concrete
    tags: beauty, concrete, dreams, hardship, persistence, roses
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    Calvin Coolidge
    “Nothing in this 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 will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On!' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.”
    ― Calvin Coolidge
    tags: attitude, attributed-no-source, determination, persistence
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    Thomas A. Edison
    “The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.”
    ― Thomas A. Edison
    tags: common-sense, enterprise, hard-work, inspirational, perseverance, persistence, success, thomas-edison
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: persistence, public-speaking, speeches
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    Joyce Meyer
    “One mistake does not have to rule a person's entire life.”
    ― Joyce Meyer, Any Minute
    tags: inspirational, mistakes, persistence
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    Tom Hiddleston
    “You never know what's around the corner. It could be everything. Or it could be nothing. You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you've climbed a mountain.”
    ― Tom Hiddleston
    tags: dreams, goals, life, mountain, path, perseverance, persistence, tom-hiddleston
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    Isaac Asimov
    “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
    tags: persistence, writing
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    Louis Sachar
    “It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward.”
    ― Louis Sachar
    tags: incrementalism, persistence
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    Hal Borland
    “Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.”
    ― Hal Borland
    tags: patience, persistence
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    Richelle E. Goodrich
    “Don't ever give up.
    Don't ever give in.
    Don't ever stop trying.
    Don't ever sell out.
    And if you find yourself succumbing to one of the above for a brief moment,
    pick yourself up, brush yourself off, whisper a prayer, and start where you left off.
    But never, ever, ever give up.”
    ― Richelle E. Goodrich, Eena, The Tempter's Snare
    tags: commitment, dedication, drive, eena, inspirational, perserverance, persistence, resolve, richelle, richelle-goodrich
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    “Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.”
    ― James A. Michener
    tags: character, perseverance, persistence, tenacity
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    T.F. Hodge
    “The sky is not my limit...I am.”
    ― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
    tags: endurance, limits, persistence, quotes, self, sky, strength
    259 likes

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    Kobayashi Issa
    “O snail
    Climb Mount Fuji
    But slowly, slowly!”
    ― Kobayashi Issa
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    Kevin Brockmeier
    “...When you die, the energy that kept you alive filters into the people you loved. Did you know that? It's like a fire you've tended all your life, and the sparks are all scattered into the wind.... That's why we survive as long as we do, because the people who loved us keep us going.”
    ― Kevin Brockmeier, The View from the Seventh Layer
    tags: death, energy, life, love, persistence, survival
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    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “The only things you learn are the things you tame”
    ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
    tags: determination, education, learning, persistence
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    Tobias Wolff
    “We are made to persist.
    that's how we find out who we are.”
    ― Tobias Wolff
    tags: persistence, trial
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    Beth Revis
    “I wrote a book. It sucked. I wrote nine more books. They sucked, too. Meanwhile, I read every single thing I could find on publishing and writing, went to conferences, joined professional organizations, hooked up with fellow writers in critique groups, and didn’t give up. Then I wrote one more book.”
    ― Beth Revis
    tags: books, debut-author, first-drafts, inspiration, persistence, publishing, writing
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    William S. Burroughs
    “Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.”
    ― William S. Burroughs, Letters to Allen Ginsberg 1953-1957
    tags: life, persistence, suffering
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    “Persistence is the key to solving most mysteries.”
    ― Christopher Pike, Black Blood
    tags: inspirational, joel-drake, persistence
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    “They key of persistence opens all door closed by resistence ”
    ― John Di Lemme
    tags: john-di-lemme, key, persistence, power, struggle
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    “Listen, Stephen King used to write in the washroom of his trailer after his kids went to sleep. Harlan Ellison wrote in the stall of a bathroom of his barracks during boot camp. Elmore Leonard got up at 5 AM every morning to write before work.
    Every time my alarm goes off at 5 AM and I don’t want to get up, or I would rather sit down after work and play a videogame, I think about those guys. Take care of your family. They need you and love you. Make time for them. Then stop screwing around and finish your damn book.”
    ― Bernard Schaffer, Whitechapel: The Final Stand of Sherlock Holmes
    tags: persistence, writing
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    Greg Kincaid
    “No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That's the only way to keep the roads clear.”
    ― Greg Kincaid
    tags: christmas, endurance, inspirational, labor, love, persistence, practice, resilience
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    Henry Ward Beecher
    “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
    tags: persistence
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    Bill Watterson
    “You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood.
    What mood is that?
    Last-minute panic.”
    ― Bill Watterson
    tags: procrastination
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  • #28
    “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
    ― Marthe Troly-Curtin, Phrynette Married
    tags: happiness, misattributed-john-lennon, procrastination, time
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    Mark Twain
    “Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
    ― Mark Twain
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “You may delay, but time will not.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
    tags: procrastination, time, time-quotes
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