"The heights by great men reached and kept
Were not attained by sudden flight,
But they, while their companions slept,
Were toiling upward in the night."
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it."
--Maya Angelou
"In my experience, nothing worthwhile has ever really been all that easy. But it certainly has been worthwhile regardless how difficult it seemed."
--Robert Fanney
"The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.”
--Ted W. Engstrom
"Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems."
--Paul J. Meyer
"The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense."
--Thomas A. Edison
"If you do not have persistence then no amount of education, talent or genius can make up for it."
--Stephen Richards
"Energy and persistence conquer all things."
--Benjamin Franklin
"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
"Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.”
--Dennis Waitley
" If you are going through hell, keep going."
--Winston Churchill
"The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is, that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't."
--Henry Ward Beecher
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
--Aristotle
"The heights by great men reached and kept
Were not attained by sudden flight,
But they, while their companions slept,
Were toiling upward in the night."
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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©2016 Raymond M. Jozwiak
