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• Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

  ~ Calvin Coolidge quotes

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• Success requires persistence, the ability to not give up in the face of failure. I believe that optimistic explanatory style is the key to persistence.

  ~ Martin Seligman quotes from Learned Optimism

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• Persistence prevails, like a stream that is temporarily blocked by boulders and then collects force enough to overflow onward.

  ~ Vernon Howard quotes from The Power of Your Supermind

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• Wishing will not bring riches. But desiring riches with a state of mind that becomes an obsession, then planning definite ways and means to acquire riches, and backing those plans with persistence which does not recognize failure, will bring riches.

  ~ Napoleon Hill quotes

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• The characteristic of genuine heroism, is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes from Heroism

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• The only thing we all have in common is that we play tricks in order to force ourselves to abandon the quest. The counter-measure is to persist in spite of all the barriers and disappointments.

  ~ Carlos Castaneda quotes from Tales of Power

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• Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

  ~ Albert Einstein quotes

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• The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable on persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

  ~ George Bernard Shaw quotes

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• What we resist, persists.

  ~ Susan Jeffers quotes from Feel the Fear…And Do It Anyway

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