If you give yourself to your task at once, you won’t have to do it twice.
Perseverance Quotes
Stopping at third base adds no more to the score than striking out.
If you don’t scale the mountain, you can’t view the plain.
Perseverance, dear my lord, Keeps honor bright. (Troilus and Cressida)
Keep trying. It’s only from the valley that the mountain seems high.
One may go a long way after one is tired.
Perseverance and tact are the two great qualities most valuable for all men who would mount, but especially for those who have to step out of the crowd.
(Of ‘Polyphilus,’ a dilettante) I have found him, within this last half year, deciphering the Chinese language, making a farce, collecting a vocabulary of the obsolete terms of the English law, writing an inquiry concerning the ancient Corinthian brass, and forming a new scheme of the variations of the needle. (compass) Thus is the powerful […]
Through perserverence many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
Too much vigor in the beginning of an undertaking often intercepts and prevents the steadiness and perseverance always necessary in the conduct of a complicated scheme.
