Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
Perseverance Quotes
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.
The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be common, nor the common heroic.
Nothing can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with great 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.
To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.
No worthy enterprise can be done by us without continual plodding and wearisomeness to our faint and sensitive abilities.
