#persistence

Ambition is the path to success, persistence is the vehicle you arrive in. ↗

— William Eardley IV

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The art of love is largely the art of persistence. ↗

— Albert Ellis

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As an early-and-often chronicler of Chicago-on-the-Potomac, I am amazed at the stubborn and clingy persistence of President Barack Obama's snowblowers in the media. See no scandal, hear no scandal, speak no scandal. ↗

— Michelle Malkin

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Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence. ↗

— Colin Powell

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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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I rewrote it and I took all your notes. Read it again, that kind of persistence paid off. ↗

— David Steinberg

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Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the generations to follow. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

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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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When I have tried and failed, I shall have failed. ↗

— Sophocles

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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. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#perseverance