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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
Perseverance
Strong
Will
Other
Between
Obstinacy
Difference
If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
Joseph Addison
Life
Success
Hope
You
Wise
Perseverance
Experience
Genius
Guardian
Wish
Brother
Bosom
Counselor
Make
Caution
Friend
Succeed
Elder
Your
Remember, it isn't the dreamers who have good lives - it's the doers. Remember also what I call the three Ps of success: passion, planning, and perseverance.
Homer Hickam
Success
Good
Perseverance
Remember
Passion
Dreamers
Three
Also
Call
Doers
Planning
Who
Lives
I have never had to face anything that could overwhelm the native optimism and stubborn perseverance I was blessed with.
Sonia Sotomayor
Perseverance
Face
Blessed
Stubborn
Could
Never
Had
Optimism
Overwhelm
Native
Anything
Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.
Lao Tzu
Beautiful
Good
Perseverance
Together
Supreme
Coming
Sublimity
Just
Succeeding
Actions
Agreement
Foundation
A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.
Robert Benchley
Perseverance
Dog
Pet
Three
Before
Down
Lying
Around
Boy
Times
Fidelity
Turn
Teaches
To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by.
Stephen Baker
Perseverance
Courage
Conviction
Bathe
Brute
Brute Force
Cat
Takes
Come
Force
Ingredient
Hardest
Last
The three ordinary things that we often don't pay enough attention to, but which I believe are the drivers of all success, are hard work, perseverance, and basic honesty.
Azim Premji
Success
Work
Hard Work
Perseverance
Honesty
Three
Pay
Believe
Enough
Drivers
Attention
Often
Ordinary
Which
Ordinary Things
Hard
Basic
Things
Whether you're shuffling a deck of cards or holding your breath, magic is pretty simple: It comes down to training, practice, and experimentation, followed up by ridiculous pursuit and relentless perseverance.
David Blaine
You
Perseverance
Training
Simple
Practice
Holding
Breath
Down
Relentless
Pretty
Followed
Magic
Pursuit
Up
Experimentation
Whether
Deck
Your
Ridiculous
Shuffling
Cards
A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation and encourages perseverance.
Gary Hamel
Perseverance
Innovation
Sacrifice
Purpose
Inspires
Noble
Stimulates
Encourages
If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
Samuel Johnson
Strength
Great
You
Perseverance
Determination
Impossible
Few
Despair
Diligence
Counsel
Performed
Fixed
Few Things
Skill
Your
Works
Things
Standardized testing is at cross purposes with many of the most important purposes of public education. It doesn't measure big-picture learning, critical thinking, perseverance, problem solving, creativity or curiosity, yet those are the qualities great teaching brings out in a student.
Randi Weingarten
Education
Great
Perseverance
Learning
Creativity
Problem
Public Education
Important
Thinking
Those
Out
Critical
Critical Thinking
Solving
Cross
Purposes
Student
Most
Qualities
Testing
Curiosity
Problem-Solving
The Most Important
Public
Measure
Teaching
Standardized
Many
Brings
But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character, leadership, creativity, perseverance.
William Julius Wilson
Best
Leadership
Character
Perseverance
Creativity
Doctor
Will
Lawyer
Well
Tests
Person
Measure
Who
Businessman
Sat
Necessarily
We truly believe with hard work, dedication and perseverance, we can become the best at what we do. No one wants to become mediocre.
Andy Biersack
Work
Hard Work
Best
Perseverance
Become
Dedication
Believe
No-One
Truly
Wants
Hard
Mediocre
Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
Benjamin Disraeli
Success
Failure
Perseverance
People
Win
Destined
Out
Seemed
Through
Certain
Many
Perseverance and perspective until victory.
Lincoln Diaz-Balart
Perseverance
Victory
Perspective
Until
Amongst the qualities a hero should have, I would include determination, loyalty, courage, perseverance, patience, focus, intrepidity and selflessness.
Ricky Martin
Loyalty
Patience
Perseverance
Courage
Determination
Hero
Focus
Would
Qualities
Selflessness
Should
Include
Amongst
Everything that I've ever been able to accomplish in skating and in life has come out of adversity and perseverance.
Scott Hamilton
Life
Adversity
Perseverance
Everything
Out
Able
Come
Been
Accomplish
Skating
Ever
As a leader, these attributes - confidence, perseverance, work ethic and good sense - are all things I look for in people. I also try to lead by example and create an environment where good questions and good ideas can come from anyone.
Heather Bresch
Work
Good
Confidence
Perseverance
People
Try
Example
Leader
Sense
Good Ideas
All Things
Good Sense
Lead
Lead By Example
Environment
Come
Ideas
Look
Also
Attributes
Questions
Where
Anyone
Work Ethic
Ethic
Create
Things
Schools reward their students for a combination of intelligence, perseverance, and hard work - in the classroom and on the playing fields. But these metrics don't help kids understand that great grades are not a pass for a great life.
Steve Blank
Life
Work
Hard Work
Great
Perseverance
Intelligence
Reward
Kids
Great Life
Classroom
Students
Combination
Schools
Understand
Pass
Grades
Fields
Hard
Help
Playing
The road to perseverance lies by doubt.
Francis Quarles
Perseverance
Doubt
Lies
Road
When I think about parallels between myself and an Olympian, I believe that success in the world of business is underpinned by very similar principles of perseverance and hard work.
Lakshmi Mittal
Success
Work
Hard Work
Myself
Business
Perseverance
World
Believe
Think
Parallels
About
Similar
Between
Principles
Very
Hard
Olympian
Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.
Orison Swett Marden
Success
Perseverance
Pay
Price
Drudgery
Child
Cannot
Success Is
Bribed
Yours
Keep the faith, don't lose your perseverance and always trust your gut extinct.
Paula Abdul
Faith
Perseverance
Trust
Lose
Gut
Always
Your
Keep
Extinct
Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
Ambrose Bierce
Success
Perseverance
Mediocrity
Virtue
Achieves
Whereby
Lowly
I can tell you character traits I admire and work to develop in myself - perseverance, self-discipline, courage to stand up for what is right even when it is against one's friends or one's self.
Dalia Mogahed
Work
Myself
Character
You
Perseverance
Courage
Tell
Admire
Self
Develop
Self-Discipline
Up
Friends
Traits
Against
Stand
Stand Up
Even
Right
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