Perseverence

Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway. ~MARY KAY ASH

As long as one keeps searching, the answers come. ~JOAN BAEZ

Be like a postage stamp.  Stick to one thing until you get there. ~JOSH BILLINGS (Henry Wheeler Shaw)

By perseverance the snail reached the ark. ~CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air. ~JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions.  All life is an experiment.  The more experiments you make the better.  What if they are a little coarse, and you may get your coat soiled or torn?  What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice?  Up again; you shall never be so afraid of a tumble. ~RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Don't ever give up on your dreams.  Find them, make them yours, and never let them go. ~E. COSTANZA

Fall seven times, stand up eight. ~Japanese PROVERB

Get a good idea and stay with it.  Dog it, and work at it until it's done right. ~WALT DISNEY

I think and think for months and years, ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false.  The hundredth time I am right. ~ALBERT EINSTEIN

If at first you don't succeed, you're running about average. ~M. H. ALDERSON

It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop. ~CONFUCIUS

It's always too early to quit. ~NORMAN VINCENT PEALE

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do.  Where there's love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong. ~ELLA FITZGERALD

Lose not courage, lose not faith, go forward. ~MARCUS GARVEY

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all. ~DALE CARNEGIE

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. ~CONFUCIUS

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. ~RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody. ~HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Plodding wins the race. ~AESOP

Results!  Why, man I have gotten a lot of results.  I know several thousand things that won't work. ~THOMAS ALVA EDISON

Shake and shake

The catsup bottle,

None will come,

And then a lot'll. ~RICHARD ARMOUR

The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary. ~THOMAS ALVA EDISON

The meaning and purpose of a problem seem to lie not in its solutions but in our working at it incessantly. ~CARL JUNG

There is no failure except in no longer trying. ~ELBERT HUBBARD

When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word "succeed," you find that it simply means to follow through. ~F. W. NICHOL

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on. ~THOMAS JEFFERSON