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I'm not a genius.
I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

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Genius is one percent inspiration
and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
- Thomas Edison

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman,
before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
- John Quincy Adams

The key to everything is patience.
You get the chicken by hatching the egg,
not by smashing it open.
- Arnold H. Glasgow

It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
- Benjamin Disraeli

It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
- Eddie Cantor

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools,
but the gentle touches of air and water
working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
- Henry David Thoreau

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.
You have only to persevere to save yourselves.
- Winston Churchill

The sum of wisdom is that
time is never lost that is devoted to work.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The price of success is hard work,
dedication to the job at hand,
and the determination that whether we win or lose,
we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
- Vince Lombardi

Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.
- Virgil

I think and think for months and years.
Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false.
The hundredth time I am right.
- Albert Einstein

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not;
nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not;
unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not;
the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
- Calvin Coolidge

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?
- Henry David Thoreau

No great thing is created suddenly.
- Epictetus

If a warrior is to succeed at anything,
the success must come gently,
with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.
- Carlos Castaneda

When you get into a tight place
and everything goes against you,
till it seems you cannot hold on a minute longer,
never give up then, for that is just
the place and time the tide will turn.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe

A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
- George Savile

When the water starts boiling
it is foolish to turn off the heat.
- Nelson Mandela

Never, never, never give up.
- Winston Churchill

Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb

There's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.
- the character Morpheus in the movie The Matrix

We can do anything we want to
if we stick to it long enough.
- Helen Keller

You are never given a wish without also
being given the power to make it true.
You may have to work for it, however.
- Richard Bach

When you find your path, you must not be afraid.
You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes.
Disappointment, defeat, and despair are
the tools God uses to show us the way.
- Paulo Coelho

You can have anything you want -
if you want it badly enough.
You can be anything you want to be,
do anything you set out to accomplish
if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
- Abraham Lincoln

Ideas, yes.
Inspiration, yes.
Creativity, yes.
Planning, yes.
Perseverance, yes.
More perseverance, yes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Never give up on the most important goals in your life.
Never give up on your life purpose.
Never give up on your core values.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The probability that we may fail
in the struggle ought not to deter us
from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
- Abraham Lincoln

Persist Quotes and Sayings

In the councils of government,
we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence,
whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power
exists and will persist.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence,
whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
The potential for the disastrous rise
of misplaced power exists and will persist.
We must never let the weight of this combination
endanger our liberties or democratic processes.
We should take nothing for granted.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower in his Farewell Address of January, 17 1961

Persists Quotes and Sayings

What you resist, persists.
- Carl Jung

Persistent Quotes and Sayings

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace.
A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being
that places harmony in one's life.
- Peace Pilgrim

The distinction between the past, present and future
is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
- Albert Einstein

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
- Albert Einstein

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy

Life's most persistent and urgent question is,
'What are you doing for others?'
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

He who is persistent will realize God.
So try your best to make meditation
a regular experience in your life.
- Paramahansa Yogananda

Persistence Quotes and Sayings

Keep moving. Don't stop. But don't rush.
Don't race around.
Sure and steady gets you there every time.
- Neale Donald Walsch

A little more persistence,
a little more effort, and
what seemed hopeless failure
may turn to glorious success.
- Elbert Hubbard

Patience, persistence and perspiration
make an unbeatable combination for success.
- Napoleon Hill

The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
- Herbert Kaufman

Persistence prevails when all else fails.
- Anonymous

The majority of men meet with failure
because of their lack of persistence
in creating new plans to take
the place of those which fail.
- Napoleon Hill

Patience, persistence, and perseverance.
A little more each day, a little better each day.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.
- Benjamin Franklin

Balance activity with serenity,
wealth with simplicity,
persistence with innovation,
community with solitude,
familiarity with adventure,
constancy with change,
leading with following.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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Keep your attention focused entirely
on what is truly your own concern,
and be clear that what belongs to others
is their business and none of yours.
- Epictetus

Life is a game.
Keep it light and playful.
Tease life, taunt life,
never attack life head-on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is like riding a bicycle.
To keep your balance you must keep moving.
- Albert Einstein

Keep busy - with tasks that inspire you,
motivate you, or please you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You ask me if I keep a notebook
to record my great ideas.
I've only ever had one.
- Albert Einstein

Keep close to Nature's heart...
and break clear away, once in awhile,
and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods.
Wash your spirit clean.
- John Muir

Keep Searching for the Rabbit-Hole with the Magical White Rabbit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Success seems to be connected with action.
Successful people keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton

Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
- Benjamin Franklin

Achievement seems to be connected with action.
Successful men and women keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton

A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself,
to keep his friends in countenance.
- Benjamin Franklin

To keep your marriage brimming,
With love in the wedding cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it;
Whenever you're right, shut up.
- Ogden Nash

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus

Today is a day to cover your best weapons in velvet.
Go gently into the world.
Hold your anger.
Keep your competitive spirit in check.
Some day you will need your fierce weapons,
but not today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Learn to do common things uncommonly well;
we must always keep in mind that anything
that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.
- George Washington Carver

Stay hopeless and confused. Keep polishing those skills.
- the movie When a Man Loves a Woman (1994)

Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman

Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf.
- Native American Proverb

The walls we build around us to
keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
- Jim Rohn

The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner

The poet is one who is able to keep
the fresh vision of the child alive.
- Anais Nin

When you keep getting the wrong answers,
try asking better questions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To keep the body in good health is a duty...
otherwise we shall not be able
to keep our mind strong and clear.
- The Buddha

If a man does not make new acquaintances
as he advances through life,
he will soon find himself alone.
A man, sir, should keep his friendships in constant repair.
- Samuel Johnson

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      - Jonathan Lockwood Huie