PERSEVERANCE

Related Subjects: Obstinacy, Resolution

1. Plodding wins the race.—AESOP, The Hare and the Tortoise
   

2. Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.—MARIE CURIE, Curie: Madame Curie
   

3. Little strokes fell great oaks.—FRANKLIN, Poor Richard
   

4. The best way out is always through.—ROBERT FROST, A Servant to Servants
   

5. I propose to fight it out on this line, if it takes all summer.—ULYSSES S. GRANT
   

6. 'Tis a lesson you should heed,
   Try, try, try again.
   If at first you don't succeed,
   Try, try, try again.—W. E. HICKSON, Try and Try Again
   

7. The heights by great men reached and kept
   Were not attained by sudden flight,
   But they, while their companions slept,
   Were toiling upward in the night.—LONGFELLOW, The Ladder of Saint Augustine
   

8. Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it.—MARCUS AURELIUS, Meditations
   

9. Yet I argue not
   Against Heav'n's hand or will, nor bate a jot
   Of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer
   Right onward.—MILTON, Sonnet XXII
   

10. 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, Lives
    

11. If you would be a pope, you must think of nothing else.—Proverb
    

12. It's dogged as does it.—Proverb
    

13. A rolling stone gathers no moss.—PUBLILIUS SYRUS, Sententiae
    

14. Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.—PUBLILIUS SYRUS, Sententiae
    

15. De man what keeps pullin' de grapevine shakes down a few bunches at leas'.—IRWIN RUSSELL,Precepts at Parting
    

16. Neither to the right of me, nor to the left of me, nor behind me —but ever forward. Some people will say: "Turn this way," or "turn that way." But I say, "Neither to the right of me, nor to the left of me, nor behind me—but ever forward!"—ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
    

17. And many strokes, though with a little axe,
    Hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry VI
    

18. Harp not on that string.—SHAKESPEARE, Richard III
    

19. A man must not swerve from his path because of the barkings of dogs.—H. M. STANLEY
    

20. 'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause,—and of obstinacy in a bad one.—STERNE, Tristram Shandy