“ All that I have accomplished… has been by that plodding, patient, persevering process of accretion which builds the ant heap particle by particle, thought by thought, fact by fact. ”
- Elihu Burritt- Copy
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“ It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches. ”
- Frederick The Great- Copy
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“ I'm extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end. ”
- Margaret Thatcher- Copy
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“ It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations. ”
- Kahlil Gibran- Copy
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“ Many people who wonder why they don't amount to more than they do have good stuff in them, and are energetic, persevering, and have ample opportunities. It is all a case of trimming the useless branches and throwing the whole force of power into the development of something that counts. ”
- Walter J. Johnston- Copy
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“ Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights. Men are moved by only two mechanisms: fear and self-interest. Victory belongs to the most persevering. ”
- Napoleon Bonaparte- Copy
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“ The majority of the diseases which the human family have been and still are suffering under, they have created by ignorance of their own organic health, and work perseveringly to tear themselves to pieces, and when broken down and debilitated in body and mind, send for the doctor and drug themselves to death. ”
- Ellen Gould White- Copy
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“ The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider — and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation — persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree. ”
- Alexander Graham Bell- Copy
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