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
The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking places. ~Author
Unknown
When the world says, "Give up,"
Hope whispers, "Try it one more time."
~Author Unknown
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time
you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs
well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves. ~Dale Carnegie
Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to
stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed
the mountain. ~Author Unknown
When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. ~Franklin D.
Roosevelt
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to
one thing till it gets there. ~Josh Billings
The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground. ~Author Unknown
Fall seven times, stand up eight. ~Japanese Proverb
Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work
you already did. ~Newt Gingrich
Stubbornly persist, and you will find that the limits of your stubbornness go
well beyond the stubbornness of your limits. ~Robert Brault
You can't go through life quitting everything. If you're going to achieve
anything, you've got to stick with something. ~From the television show
Family Matters
The race is not always to the swift, but to those who keep on running. ~Author
unknown, in reference to Ecclesiastes 9:11, "I returned, and saw under the
sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither
yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to
men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all."
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. ~Albert
Einstein
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.
~Walter Elliott, The Spiritual Life
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't
believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people
who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find
them, make them. ~G.B. Shaw, Mrs. Warren's Profession, 1893
There is no telling how many miles you will have to run while chasing a dream.
~Author Unknown
Perseverance... keeps honor bright: to have done, is to hang quite out of
fashion, like a rusty nail in monumental mockery. ~William Shakespeare
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
~Lucretius
But the moment you turn a corner you see another straight stretch ahead and
there comes some further challenge to your ambition. ~Oliver Wendell
Holmes, Jr.
Don't be discouraged. It's often the last key in the bunch that opens the
lock. ~Author Unknown
The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Saints are sinners who kept on going. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.
~Buddhist Saying
I may not be there yet, but I'm closer than I was yesterday. ~Author Unknown
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
One may go a long way after one is tired. ~French Proverb
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we
fail. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines. ~Robert Schuller
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
As a means to success, determination has this advantage over talent - that it
does not have to be recognized by others. ~Robert Brault
When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum. ~Author Unknown
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a
second. ~William James
Difficult things take a long time, impossible things a little longer. ~Author
Unknown
Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the
way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that
passing time to the best possible use. ~Earl Nightingale
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
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
perseverance
per⋅se⋅ver⋅ance
noun
1.
steady persistence in a
course of action, a purpose, a state, etc., esp.
in spite of difficulties, obstacles, or
discouragement.
2.
Theology.
continuance in a state of grace to the
end, leading to eternal salvation.
Origin: 130050; ME
perseveraunce < MF
perseverance < L
persevērantia.
Related forms:
perseverant, adjective
Synonyms: 1. doggedness,
steadfastness. Perseverance,persistence,
tenacity,pertinacity
imply resolute and unyielding holding on in following a
course of action. Perseverance
commonly suggests activity maintained in spite of
difficulties or steadfast and long-continued
application: Endurance and
perseverance combined to win in the end. It is
regularly used in a favorable sense.
Persistence, which may be used in either a
favorable or an unfavorable sense, implies unremitting
(and sometimes annoying) perseverance:
persistence in a belief;
persistence in talking when others wish to study. Tenacity, with the original
meaning of adhesiveness, as of glue, is a dogged and
determined holding on. Whether used literally or
figuratively it has favorable implications:
a bulldog quality of tenacity;
the tenacity of one's memory.
Pertinacity, unlike its related word, is used
chiefly in an unfavorable sense, that of overinsistent
tenacity: the pertinacity of
the social climber.
