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[Quote No.13783] Need Area: Mind > Persist "Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.[and strong to persist, in a worthy cause.]" - Ralph Waldo Emerson Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13841] Need Area: Mind > Persist "If the power to do hard work is not talent, it is the best possible substitute for it." - James A. Garfield Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13843] Need Area: Mind > Persist "Genius may conceive, but patient labor must consummate." - Horace Mann Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13873] Need Area: Mind > Persist "Men may rise on stepping-stones of their dead selves to higher things." - Alfred Tennyson Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson [Lord Alfred Tennyson] Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13905] Need Area: Mind > Persist "There is nothing so elastic as the human mind. Like imprisoned steam, the more it is pressed the more it rises to resist the pressure. The more we are obliged to do, the more we are able to accomplish." - T. Edwards Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13911] Need Area: Mind > Persist "The diamond of character is revealed by the concussion of misfortune, as the splendor of the precious jewel of the mine is developed by the blows of the lapidary." - F.A. Durivage Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13912] Need Area: Mind > Persist "The good man, even though overwhelmed by misfortune, loses never his inborn greatness of soul. Camphor-wood burnt in the fire becomes all the more fragrant." - Sataka Sataka = "century" of Buddhist verses Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13915] Need Area: Mind > Persist "Who hath not known ill-fortune, never knew,
Himself, or his own virtue." - David Mallet Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13916] Need Area: Mind > Persist "Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it." - Washington Irving Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13919] Need Area: Mind > Persist "The greatest misfortune of all is not to be able to bear misfortune. [When bad things happen to good people, learn and grow as much as you can from it and then focus your attention on making the future better...Try to become better rather than bitter!]
" - Bias sixth-century BC Greek sage, considered one of 'The Seven Wise Men of Greece' Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13920] Need Area: Mind > Persist "[Poem:]
Life is mostly froth and bubble;
Two things stand like stone,
Kindness in another's trouble,
Courage in your own.
" - Adam Lindsay Gordon Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13921] Need Area: Mind > Persist "Affliction comes to us all not to make us sad, but sober; not to make us sorry, but wise; not to make us despondent but by its darkness to refresh us, as the night refreshes the day; not to impoverish, but to enrich us, as the plough enriches the field; to multiply our joy, as the seed, by planting, is multiplied a thousandfold." - Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13922] Need Area: Mind > Persist "All sun and no rain makes a desert" - Seymour@imagi-natives.com Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13923] Need Area: Mind > Persist "Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure." - Amos Bronson Alcott educator and father of Louisa May Alcott Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13952] Need Area: Mind > Persist "Nature does not capriciously scatter her secrets as golden gifts to lazy pets and luxurious darlings, but imposes tasks when she presents opportunities..." - Edwin Percy Whipple Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13972] Need Area: Mind > Persist "That policy that can strike only while the iron is hot will be overcome by that perseverance which, like Cromwell's, can make the iron hot by striking; and he that can only rule the storm must yield to him who can both raise and rule it." - Charles Caleb Colton Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13973] Need Area: Mind > Persist "The effects of opposition are wonderful. There are men
who rise refreshed on hearing of a threat; men to whom a crisis which intimidates and paralyzes the majority demanding, not the faculties of prudence and thrift, but comprehension, immovableness, the readiness of sacrifice, comes graceful and beloved as a bride." - Ralph Waldo Emerson Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13974] Need Area: Mind > Persist "He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper." - Edmund Burke Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13975] Need Area: Mind > Persist "A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against and not with the wind. Even a head wind is better than none. No man ever worked his passage anywhere in a dead calm. Let no man wax pale, therefore, because of opposition." - John Neal Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13976] Need Area: Mind > Persist "It is not ease, but effort, not facility, but difficulty, that makes men. There is, perhaps, no station in life in which difficulties have not to be encountered and overcome before any decided measure of success can be achieved." - Samuel Smiles Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13993] Need Area: Mind > Persist "A genuine passion is like a mountain stream; it admits of no impediment; it cannot go backward; it must go forward." - Christian Nestell Bovee Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.14001] Need Area: Mind > Persist "Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.
" - George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.14004] Need Area: Mind > Persist "The plant grows in the mist and under clouds as truly as under sunshine...[you can still make progress even though things are less than ideal]" - William Ellery Channing Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.14005] Need Area: Mind > Persist "He that will have a cake of the wheat must needs tarry [linger for] the grinding." - William Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida - Act 1, Scene 1 Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.14006] Need Area: Mind > Persist "There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience. [and pursues them with persistence]" - Jean de La Buyere Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.14007] Need Area: Mind > Persist "...impatience is the ruin of strength." - Charles Caleb Colton Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.14008] Need Area: Mind > Persist "Patience is sorrow's salve. [all problems and pains are temporary...so outlast them and win]" - Sir Winston Churchill Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.14015] Need Area: Mind > Persist "The block of granite, which was an obstacle in the
pathway of the weak, becomes a stepping stone in the pathway of the strong." - Thomas Carlyle Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.14016] Need Area: Mind > Persist "It is all very well to tell me that a young man has distinguished himself by a brilliant first speech [or attempt at anytning]. He may go on, or he may be satisfied with his first triumph; but show me a young man who has not succeeded at first, and nevertheless has gone on, and I will back that young man to do better than most of those who have succeeded at the first trial." - Charles James Fox Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.14017] Need Area: Mind > Persist "I hold a doctrine, to which I owe not much, indeed, but all the little I ever had, namely, that with ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable." - Sir T.F. Buxton Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.14018] Need Area: Mind > Persist "Those who would attain to any marked degree of excellence in a chosen pursuit must work, and work hard for it, prince or peasant." - Bayard Taylor Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.14019] Need Area: Mind > Persist "All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance; it is by this that the quarry becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries are united by canals. If a man was to compare the effect of a single
stroke of a pickaxe, or of one impression of the spade, with the general design and last result, he would be overwhelmed by the sense of their disproportion; yet those petty operations, incessantly continued, in time surmount the greatest difficulties, and mountains
are levelled, and oceans bounded, by the slender force of human beings." - Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) He knew what he was talking about as he had to work incredibly persistently to create his 1755 Dictionary of the English Language, which was the first comprehensive dictionary of any language ever published. Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.14020] Need Area: Mind > Persist "Even in social life, it is persistency which attracts confidence, more than talents and accomplishments." - Edwin Percy Whipple American essayist and critic (1819 - 1886) Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.14021] Need Area: Mind > Persist "A falling drop at last will carve a stone." - Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus) Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.14022] Need Area: Mind > Persist "It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles." - Washington Irving Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.14023] Need Area: Mind > Persist "Press on! a better fate awaits thee." - Victor Hugo Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.14024] Need Area: Mind > Persist "There is no education like adversity." - Benjamin Disraeli Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.14025] Need Area: Mind > Persist "When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us. [Look persistently for the advantages and opportunities even in setbacks and apparent disappointments and thereby find a way to win and be happy and successful.]" - Alexander Graham Bell Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.14030] Need Area: Mind > Persist "If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain." - Dolly Parton Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.14172] Need Area: Mind > Persist "To know how to [work and] wait is the great secret of success." - Joseph de Maistre Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.14174] Need Area: Mind > Persist "The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed. [and therefore the surest way to succeed is to determine not to fail.]" - Richard Brinsley Sheridan Irish playwright and Whig (1751-1816) Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.14175] Need Area: Mind > Persist "The great highroad of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast well-doing; and they who are the most persistent, and work in the truest spirit, will invariably be the most successful; success treads on the heels of every right effort." - Samuel Smiles Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.14176] Need Area: Mind > Persist " 'Tis not in mortals to command success,
But we'll do more, Sempronius; we'll deserve it.
" - Joseph Addison English poet and dramatist (1672-1719)
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[Quote No.14178] Need Area: Mind > Persist "If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius." - Joseph Addison English poet and dramatist (1672-1719) Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.14179] Need Area: Mind > Persist "Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one the second time." - H.W. Shaw Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.14190] Need Area: Mind > Persist "They that sow in tears shall reap in joy." - Bible, Psalm 126:5 Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.14198] Need Area: Mind > Persist "Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes." - Benjamin Disraeli Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.14271] Need Area: Mind > Persist "Nothing is impossible to industry." - Periander Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.14275] Need Area: Mind > Persist "On bravely through the sunshine and the showers!
Time hath his work to do, and we have ours." - Ralph Waldo Emerson Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.14294] Need Area: Mind > Persist "It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another." - Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919) 26th U.S. President Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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