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Perseverance

Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down. – Charles F. Kettering

Nature remembers every injury but forgives by going on. – Terri Guillemets, “Hatchets, Shoetread, Storms, & Disdain,” 2007

One may go a long way after one is tired. – French proverb

Pull yourself together and use what you have. – Betsy Cañas Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com

Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines. – Robert Schuller

Sometimes you must cross a bridge and other times you need to burn it. But, always keep building one and never lose your faith in life. – Dodinsky, www.dodinsky.com

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable. – Thomas Foxwell Buxton

You can move a lot of water with a thimble. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

Life is more than just a question so keep living and the answer will come. – Terri Guillemets

As a means to success, determination has this advantage over talent — that it does not have to be recognized by others. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum. – Author Unknown

The difference between the difficult and the impossible is that the impossible takes a little longer time. – Lady Aberdeen

A door opens to me. I go in and am faced with a hundred closed doors. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

Let perseverance be your engine and hope your fuel. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. – William Feather

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting. – Christopher Morley

Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before. – Jacob A. Riis