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The waters wear the stones: thou washeth away the things which
grow out of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope
of man.
Author: Bible
Source: Job (ch. XIV, v. 19)
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Attempt the end and never stand to doubt;
Nothing's so hard, but search will find it out.
Author: Robert Herrick
Source: Hesperides--Seeke and Finde
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God is with those who persevere.
Author: Koran
Source: ch. VIII
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For thine own purpose, thou hast sent
The strife and the discouragement!
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Source: Christus--The Golden Legend (pt. II)
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The soft droppes of raine perce the hard Marble, many strokes
overthrow the tallest Oke.
Author: John Lyly (Lylie or Lyllie)
Source: Euphues (p. 81), (Arber's 1579 reprint)
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So Satan, whom repulse upon repulse
Met ever, and to shameful silence brought,
Yet gives not o'er though desperate of success.
Author: John Milton
Source: Paradise Regained (bk. IV, l. 21)
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Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.
Author: Plutarch
Source: Of the Training of Children
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The drop hollows out the stone not by strength, but by constant
falling.
[Lat., Gutta cavat lapidem non vi, sed saepe cadendo.]
Author: Plutarch
Source: Of the Training of Children
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Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will
march straight ahead without looking back.
Author: Plutarch
Source: Of the Training of Children
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We shall escape the uphill by never turning back.
Author: Christina G. Rossetti
Source: Amor Mundi
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Perseverance, dear my lord,
Keeps honor bright; to have done, is to hang
Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail
In monumental mock'ry.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The History of Troilus and Cressida (Ulysses at III, iii)
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But Hercules himself must yield to odds;
And many strokes, though with a little axe,
Hews down and fells the hardest-timbered oak.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: King Henry the Sixth, Part III (Messenger at II, i)
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I am tied to the stake, and I must stand the course.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: King Lear (Gloucester at III, vii)
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Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.
Author: Syrus (Publilius Syrus)
Source: Maxims
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You win some, you lose some, and some get rained out, but you gotta suit up for them all.
Author: J. Askenberg
Source: None
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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.
Author: Pythagoras
Source: None
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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
Source: None
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God helps those who persevere.
Author: The Koran
Source: None
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For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again. [Proverbs 24:16]
Author: Bible
Source: None
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It is not necessary to hope in order to undertake, nor to succeed in order to persevere.
Author: Charles the Bold
Source: None
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
Author: Edmund Burke
Source: None
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The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.
Author: David Sarnoff
Source: None
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Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.
Author: Walter Elliott
Source: None
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It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
Source: None
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
Author: Napoleon Hill
Source: None
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To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.
Author: Euripides
Source: None
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The fall of dropping water wears away the stone.
Author: Lucretius
Source: None
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Try not to do too many things at once. Know what you want, the number one thing today and tomorrow. Persevere and get it done.
Author: George Allen
Source: None
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No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.
Author: Richard Petty
Source: None
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The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never blanches, the thought that never wanders, the purpose that never wavers - these are the masters of victory.
Author: Edmund Burke
Source: None
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It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired, you quit when the gorilla is tired.
Author: Robert Strauss
Source: None
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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.
Author: Dale Carnegie
Source: None
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You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
Author: Margaret Thatcher
Source: None
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Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.
Author: Plutarch
Source: None
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The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit.
Author: Mark Twain
Source: None
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No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.
Author: Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Source: None
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There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.
Author: Kin Hubbard
Source: None
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Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall.
Author: Sydney Harris
Source: None
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Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield themselves up when taken little by little.
Author: Plutarch
Source: None
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Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
Author: Josh Billings
Source: None
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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is, that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
Source: None
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
Author: Edmund Burke
Source: None
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Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
Author: Christopher Morley
Source: None
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
Author: Christian Nestell Bovee
Source: None
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