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Quotations by Subject: Patience (28 quotes)

Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.: John Quincy Adams (1767 - 1848)
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Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
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Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Interview, 1995
Perseverance does not equal worthiness.: Lawrence Kaplow, House M.D., Paternity, 2004
When any two young people take it into their heads to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to carry their point, be they ever so poor, or ever so imprudent, or ever so little likely to be necessary to each other's ultimate comfort.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
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Results from Classic Quotes:

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 (46 AD - 120 AD), Lives
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By perseverance the snail reached the ark.: Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834 - 1892)
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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will; and the other from a strong won't.: Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887), Seven Lectures to a Young Man, 1844
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