#persist

Persistence is the key to solving most mysteries. ↗

— Christopher Pike

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They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than to insufficient application. At the core of every true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in any achievement, and the confidence that persistence and patience something worthwhile will be realized. Thus talent is a species of vigor. (Eric Hoffer 1902-1983) ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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To succeed, one must be creative and persistent. ↗

— John H. Johnson

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Don't change your mind just because people are offended; change your mind if you're wrong. ↗

— Criss Jami

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In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for "finding himself." If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence. ↗

— Thomas Merton

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This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation. ↗

— Carroll Quigley

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Present law has a process to ascertain whether or not a patient is in a persistent vegetative state, and it should not matter what politicians think. ↗

— Bobby Scott

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There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings. ↗

— Dorothy Thompson

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The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away. ↗

— Fisher Ames

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Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education alone will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

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