Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it’s done right.
Perseverance Quotes
Man can only form a just estimate of his own actions, by making his power the test of his performance, by comparing what he does with what he can do. Whoever steadily perseveres in the exertion of all his faculties, does what is great with respect to himself; and what will not be despised by […]
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.
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance; it is by this that the quarry becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries are united with canals. If a man was to compare the single stroke of the pickax, or of one […]
That which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do; not that the nature of the thing itself is changed, but that our power to do is increased.
It’s gonna be a long hard drag, but we’ll make it.
