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persistence
«Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.»
Author: Colin Powell
| About:
Success
| Keywords:
loyalties, loyalty, perfection, persistence, result
«They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than to insufficient application. At the core of every true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in any achievement, and the confidence that by persistence and patience something worthwhile will be realized. Thus talent is a species of vigor.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
| Keywords:
application, ascribe, ascribed, ascribes, awareness, core, difficulties, inherent, inspiration, insufficient, misfortune, persistence, realized, species, The Core, vigor, worthwhile
«Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success»
Author: Napoleon Hill
| About:
Success
| Keywords:
combination, combinations, patience, persistence, perspiration, success, unbeatable
«Paralyze resistance with persistence»
Author: Woody Hayes
(Football coach)
| About:
Perseverance
| Keywords:
paralyze, paralyzes, paralyzing, persistence, resistance
«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.»
«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.»
Author: Napoleon Hill
| Keywords:
creating, fail, lack, majorities, majority, meet, meeting place, new, New Man, persistence, place, plans, taking place
«The foundation of the Buddha's teachings lies in compassion, and the reason for practicing the teachings is to wipe out the persistence of ego, the number-one enemy of compassion.»
Author: Tenzin Gyatso, The 14th Dalai Lama
| Keywords:
Buddha, compassion, ego, foundation, number one, persistence, practicing, teachings, the Buddha, The Foundation, wipe, wiped out, wipes, wipe out, wiping
«Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragement, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| About:
Determination,
Perseverance,
Persistence,
Soul
| Keywords:
discouragement, distinguishes, impossibilities, Obstacles, permanence, perseverance, persistence, spite
«So the important thing in a military operation is victory, not persistence.»
Author: Sun Tzu
(Author, General)
| About:
Military
| Keywords:
military, military operation, operation, persistence
