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...A man can only stumble for so long before he either falls or stands up straight.

You see, it is so hard for these creatures to persevere. The routine of adversity, the gradual decay...

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Nothing in the world can take place of persistence. Talent will not nothing is more common than uns...

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I wish to weepbut sorrow isstupid.I wish to believebut belief is agraveyard.

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Charles BukowskiWhat Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire

We must meet reverses boldly, and not suffer them to frighten us, my dear. We must learn to act the ...

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Brag is a good dog, but Holdfast is a better.

Weel, ma´am' said Stephen, making the best of it, with a smile; 'when I ha´finished off, I mun quit ...

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Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeli...

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A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips...

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If I let a gust of wind or a sprinkling of rain turn me aside from the easy tasks, what preparation ...

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They outnumbered me, and I was worsted and under their feet; but, as yet, I was not dead.

His will be done, as done it surely will be, whether we humble ourselves to resignation or not. The ...

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It is hard work to control the workings of inclination and turn the bent of nature; but that it may ...

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Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

What's the bravest thing you ever did?He spat in the road a bloody phlegm. Getting up this morning, ...

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Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying w...

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It is very much, she thinks, like looking at the moon and knowing one could make it there, too. It i...

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Angela Duckworth has shown how important grit and perseverance are to lifetime outcomes. College stu...

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Certain motherfuckers think they can fuck with my shit, but you can't kill the Rooster. You might ca...

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Life, Stormy says, is not about how fast you run or even with what degree of grace. It's about perse...

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Money and beauty are defenses against the sorrows of this world but neither can undo the past. Only ...

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Life had been hard on this girl, Jacob, but she had enough courage for an army.

Chronologically she is twelve, but emotionally she is older, and intellectually older still.

Perseverance is impossible if we don't permit ourselves to hope.

The way I see it if you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain.

Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvi...

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My proceeds from the PayPal acquisition were $180 million. I put $100 million in SpaceX, $70m in Tes...

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The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one?''Of course. Who said it?''I don't know.''He wa...

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To persevere trusting in what hopes he has is courage in a man. The coward despairs.

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

To reach a port we must set sail –Sail, not tie at anchorSail, not drift.

When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But a...

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My own heroes are the dreamers, those men and women who tried to make the world a better place than ...

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For me, those weeks in Boston, with Wilma, became a lesson in her ability to be “of good mind,” in h...

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The lotus is the most beautiful flower, whose petals open one by one. But it will only grow in the m...

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I go dreaming into the future, where I see nothing, nothing. I have no plans, no idea, no project, a...

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Gustave FlaubertFlaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

Hope: A pathological belief in the occurrence of the impossible.

It is far. But there is no journey upon this earth that a man may not make if he sets his heart to i...

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Falling in love was simple; one had only to yield. Digesting another person, however, and sustaining...

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You see, I have come to believe in self-help, individual initiative, the love of what you do, and th...

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Lawrence will go on burying his own undertakers.

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Harold BloomThe Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it throug...

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I study the chessboard and concede defeat."You can gain yourself in five moves" says the Colonel. "W...

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Haruki MurakamiHard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

True, luck may rule over parts of a person's life and luck may cast patches of shadow across the gro...

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First, I thought, almost despairing,This must crush my spirit now;Yet I bore it, and am bearing-Only...

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A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.

Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.

Do what you love. Know your own bone gnaw at it bury it unearth it and gnaw it still.

Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very ...

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Henry JamesTheory of Fiction: Henry James

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gat...

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Any man can work when every stroke of his hands brings down the fruit rattling from the tree ... but...

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the difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will and the other...

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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb grey hairs

The only kinds of fights worth fighting are those you’re going to lose, because somebody has to figh...

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We’re all going to keep fighting, Harry. You know that?

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

He did not falter, as long as there was a path that led toward his goal.

So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.

Go back?" he thought. "No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we ...

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I promise I shall never give up, and that I’ll die yelling and laughing, and that until then I’ll ru...

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Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs it's just possible you haven't grasp...

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I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, n...

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Perhaps [he had] persevered for too long, in the face of too many obstacles, his hair proof of his t...

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In the realm of ideas, everything depends on enthusiasm. ... In the real world, all rests on perseve...

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No one can travel so far that he does not make some progess each day. So let us never give up. Then ...

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Prayer unaccompanied by perseverance leads to no result.

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John CalvinInstitutes of the Christian Religion

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of...

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I am sore wounded but not slainI will lay me down and bleed a whileAnd then rise up to fight again

Keep passing the open windows.

The making of the far-famed New York Central Park was opposed by even good men, with misguided pluck...

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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles ...

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Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles va...

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Act out being alive, like a play. And after a while, a long while, it will be true.

In fact, most of us see perseverance as a distinctly uncreative approach, the sort of strategy that ...

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Jonah LehrerImagine: How Creativity Works

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor,...

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Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i...

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Be like a postage stamp-stick to one thing until you get there.

To meditate is to sail a course, to navigate, among problems many of which we are in the process of ...

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... that's how life should be, when one person loses heart, the other must have heart and courage en...

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The doing of something productive regardless of the outcome is an act of faith. The doing of a small...

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Julia CameronFinding Water: The Art of Perseverance

A career must be husbanded. Care must be taken. Everyday must bring some small bit of progress. How ...

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Julia CameronFinding Water: The Art of Perseverance

Don’t be afraid to do weird stuff, so long as you do it cheaply and cover everyone’s bets. Be bold. ...

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Qualities you need to get through medical school and residency: Discipline. Patience. Perseverance. ...

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You can only kill disappointment with a new try.

If we walk far enough," says Dorothy, "we shall sometime come to someplace.

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L. Frank BaumThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Motivation can't take you very far if you don't have the legs.