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- The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Every great work, every great accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.
- Florence Scovel Shinn
- The falling drops at last will wear the stone.
- Lucretius (96 BC - 55 BC)
- The man who gives up accomplishes nothing and is only a hindrance. The man who does not give up can move mountains.
- Ernest Hello
- If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, "Here comes number seventy-one!"
- Richard M. DeVos
- Plodding wins the race.
- Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC)
- The perfection preached in the Gospels never yet built up an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be forgiven him, indeed, they will be regarded as high qualities, if he can make of them the means to achieve great ends.
- Charles de Gaulle (1890 - 1970)
- This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfection.
- Saint Augustine (354 AD - 430 AD)
- We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.
- Charles Peguy
- If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thru' chinks of his cavern.
- Blake
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