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Wednesday, 3 December 2008
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"As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests" (Vidal, Gore - Language)

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Browse Quotations about Perseverance

A jug fills drop by drop.
A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.
A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.
A man is not finished when he's defeated; he's finished when he quits.
All great achievements require time.
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.
Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliance and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the ever lasting and sanctified bull doggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold.
Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.
Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
Boys, there ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got the raw deals. You've got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it. It's called perseverance.
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
By perseverance the snail reached the ark.
By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great.
Champions keep playing until they get it right.
Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.
Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.
Don't halt before you are lame.
Don't worry about genius. Don't worry about being clever. Trust to hard work, perseverance and determination. And the best motto for a long march is: Don't grumble. Plug on!
Endurance is the crowning quality...
Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.
Every great work, every great accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.
Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, accomplished.
Fall seven times and stand up eight.
Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again. [Proverbs 24:16]
For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised. [Hebrews 10:36]
God Almighty hates a quitter.
Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.
He conquers who endures.
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
How long should you try? Until.
How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success?
I am a kind of burr; I shall stick.
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
I am confident. I never give up.
I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise.
I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
I never gave up, even when people told me I'd never make it.
I never thought I didn't have a card to play.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
I will hold.
I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
I'm proof that great things can happen to ordinary people if they work hard and never give up.
I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.
I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.
If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do succeed.
If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, Here comes number seventy-one!
If you are truly flexible and go until... there is really very little you can't accomplish in your lifetime.
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they have gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you. Except the Will which says to them; Hold on!
If you get up one time more than you fall, you will make it through.
If you keep working at it, in the last analysis, you win. They've got to kill us a hundred times. All we have to do is kill them once.
If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
If you've got the guts to stick it out... you're going to make it.
In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed.
It helps, I think, to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith, to endure, to help each other when we stumble or tire, to weep and press on.
It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can do only a little. Do what you can.
It matters if you just don't give up.
It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired, you quit when the gorilla is tired.
It's always too soon to quit.
It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.
It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
It's when things get rough and you don't quit that success comes.
Lots of people limit their possibilities by giving up easily. Never tell yourself this is too much for me. It's no use. I can't go on. If you do you're licked, and by your own thinking too. Keep believing and keep on keeping on.
Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown.
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.
My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.
Nearly every man who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. that's not the place to become discouraged.
Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of sel