Perseverance Quotations

If a man has any brains at all, let him hold on to his calling, and, in the grand sweep of things, his turn will come at last. -W. McCune

 

The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never blenches, the thought that never wanders, these are the masters of victory. -Burke

 

No road is too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; and no honors are too distant for the man who prepares himself for them with patience. -Bruyere

 

Perseverance and audacity generally win. -Madame Deluzy

 

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is, that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't. -H.W. Beecher

 

There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, and all things in succession. That which grows slowly endures. -J.G. Holland

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It is with many enterprises as with striking fire; we do not meet with success except by reiterated efforts, and often at the instant when we despaired of success. -Madame de Maintenon

 

Perseverance gives power to weakness, and opens to poverty the world's wealth. It spreads fertility over the barren landscape, and bids the choicest fruits and flowers spring up and flourish in the desert abode of thorns and briers. -S.G. Goodrich

 

There are two ways of attaining an important end--force and perseverance. Force falls to the lot only of the privileged few, but austere and sustained perseverance can be practised by the most insignificant. Its silent power grows irresistible with time. -Madame Swetchine

 

I hold a doctrine, to which I owe not much, indeed, but all the little I ever had, namely, that with ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable. -T.F. Buxton

 

Hasten slowly, and without losing heart put your work twenty times upon the anvil. -Boileau

 

Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail of success. -Rochefoucauld

 

Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair. -Burke

 

Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than before. -Polybius

 

Hard pounding, gentlemen; but we will see who can pound the longest. -Wellington at Waterloo

 

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure. -Edward Eggleston

 

The divine insanity of noble minds,
that never falters nor abates,
but labors, endures, and waits,
till all that it foresees it finds,
or what it cannot find, creates.
-Longfellow

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