Success...Positive
Factors...PERSEVERANCE
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0133
“Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.”
— Walter Elliott
PERSEVERANCE, Perception
0134 A
“When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps
a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it - but all that had gone before.”
— Jacob Riis
PERSEVERANCE, Adversity
0135 CA
“Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.” — Plutarch
PERSEVERANCE, Adversity
0136 A
“No rock so hard but a little wave may be admission in a thousand years.”
— Alfred Lloyd Tennyson
PERSEVERANCE, Adversity
0137 C
“Little strokes fell great oaks.” — Benjamin Franklin
PERSEVERANCE, Adversity
0138 A
“Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. Yonder palace was raised
by single stones, yet you see its height and spaciousness. He that shall walk with vigor three hours a day will pass in seven years a space equal to the circumference of the globe.” — Samuel Johnson
PERSEVERANCE, Vision
0139 A
“Be like a postage stamp - stick to one thing until you get there.”
— Josh Billings
PERSEVERANCE, Personal Management
0140
“We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.” — Helen Keller
PERSEVERANCE, Winning, Potential
0141
“Never give up. Never give up. Never, never give up.” — Sir Winston Churchill
PERSEVERANCE, Optimism, Winning, Failure, Courage, Self-Confidence, Adversity
0142
“Men do not fail; they give up trying.” — Elihu Root
PERSEVERANCE, Failure
0143
“He conquers who endures.” — Persius
PERSEVERANCE, Adversity, Winning, Age
0144 C
“Happy are those that persevere to the end, for they shall inherit the earth.” — Jesus
PERSEVERANCE, Adversity
0145
“Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.”
— John Quincy Adams
PERSEVERANCE, Courage, Adversity
0146
“’Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause, and obstinacy in a bad one.” — Laurence Sterne
PERSEVERANCE, Hate
0147
“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, Adversity
0148
“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.”
— Plutarch
PERSEVERANCE, Adversity
0149 A
“To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.” — William Shakespeare
PERSEVERANCE, Haste, Patience, Adversity
0150 CA
“An arch never sleeps.” — Hindu Proverb
PERSEVERANCE, Procrastination
0151 PA
“Perseverance alone does not assure success. No amount of stalking will lead to game in a field
that has none.” — I Ching
PERSEVERANCE, Effectiveness, Winning
0152 H
“Perseverance. A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.”
— Ambrose Bierce
PERSEVERANCE, Ignorance
0153 H
“If at first you don’t succeed, try again. Then quit. No use in being a damned fool about it.”
— W. C. Fields
PERSEVERANCE Failure, Adversity
0154
“When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”
— Franklin Delano Roosevelt
PERSEVERANCE, Optimism, Adversity, Pessimism, Sadness
0155
“The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.” — Unknown
PERSEVERANCE, Attitude, Motivation
0156
“Nothing is impossible to the man who can will, and then do; this is the only law of success.”
— Honore Gabriel, Comte de Mirabeau
PERSEVERANCE, Self-Confidence, Optimism, Motivation, Attitude, Winning,
Personal Management
0157
“Will is character in action.” — William McDougall
PERSEVERANCE, Character
0158 H
“To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know because I’ve done it a
thousand times.” — Mark Twain
PERSEVERANCE, Failure, Health & Fitness
0159
“Discipline is remembering what you want.” — David Campbell
PERSEVERANCE, Motivation, Procrastination, Attitude
0160
“Things which come easily have no significance. The satisfaction we get in life comes when we do something which is difficult, when there is sacrifice involved.” — Barry Morris Goldwater
PERSEVERANCE, Happiness, Adversity
PERSEVERANCE Cross-References
Excellence—70 • Winning—79 •
Motivation—89, 107-108, 112 • Optimism—117 • Planning—166 •
Courage—193 • Self-Confidence—203 • Adversity—288-289, 295-296 •
Fear—336 • Doubt—348 • Sadness—383-384 •
Failure—388, 391, 396, 400 • Attitude—410, 413 •
Personal Management—424, 427, 436 • Potential—487, 489 •
Knowledge—568 • Chance—662 • Decision-Making—689 •
Genius—701, 713 • Patience—749-750 • Character—933 •
Sin—1018, 1023-1024 • Accountability—1159 • Reward—1198, 1205, 1214 •
Health & Fitness—1477 • Habit—1496, 1498
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