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Persecution quotes (23) Perseverance is the most overrated of traits if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall. Sydney J. Harris Category: Persecution When you get to the end of your rope tie a knot and hang on. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Category: Persecution Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another. Walter Elliott Category: Persecution And many strokes though with a little axe Hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak. William Shakespeare Category: Persecution By gnawing through a dike even a rat may drown a nation. Edmund Burke Category: Persecution Advantage comes not from the spectacular or the technical. Advantage comes from a persistent seeking of the mundane edge. Thomas J. Tom Peters Category: Persecution It matters if you just don't give up. Stephen William Hawking Category: Persecution In the confrontation between the stream and the rock the stream always wins not through strength but by perseverance. J. Jackson Frown Category: Persecution Victory belongs to the most persevering. Napoleon Bonaparte Category: Persecution We will either find a way or make one. Hannibal Category: Persecution It is not best to swap horses while crossing the river. Abraham Lincoln Category: Persecution And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap if we faint not. As we have therefore opportunity let us do good unto all men The Bible Category: Persecution Stopping at third base adds no more runs than striking out. Unknown Category: Persecution Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Samuel Johnson Category: Persecution If you wish to drown do not torture yourself with shallow water. Proverb Category: Persecution TENACITY n. A certain quality of the human hand in its relation to the coin of the realm. It attains its highest development in the hand of authority and is considered a serviceable equipment for a career in politics. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Category: Persecution The more one gardens the more one learns; And the more one learns the more one realizes how little one knows. Vita Sackville-West Category: Persecution He that fights and runs away May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain Will never rise to fight again. James Ray Category: Persecution Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. Thomas Stearns Eliot Category: Persecution The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature to make water run up hill to twist a rope of sand. Ralph Waldo Emerson Category: Persecution We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us. Christian Nestell Bovee Category: Persecution No rock so hard but a little wave may beat admission in A thousand years. Lord Alfred Tennyson Category: Persecution Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield themselves up when taken little by little. Plutarch Category: Persecution |
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