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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
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We picked a great marketplace. We were a pioneer in payroll processing for very small companies. And we had the perseverance and good fortune enough to stick it out.
Tom Golisano
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There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.


Max Beerbohm
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After the failure in '92, my goal was to be a good pole vaulter. I used that as motivation.


Dan O'Brien
The modern rise of Alzheimer's Disease in the twentieth century is not a sign of failure. It's a sign of success. Success in living long enough to see that disease expressed.
S. Jay Olshansky
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Until late in life, I was never quite good enough for my father, and I suppose that is part of what drives me even now, well after his death in 1992.
Richard Smalley
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Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.


John C. Maxwell
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Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we'll never achieve.


Ryszard Kapuscinski
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There's tons of creative people in television that have one failure after another, and they just step up higher. I could never get over that. When I had a failure, there was no such thing as just getting over it.
Chuck Barris
My parents came from different backgrounds. My father's was grander than my mother's, so my mother had... to put up with the disapproval of my father's relations.
Julian Fellowes
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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.


Pliny the Elder
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I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room.


Mercedes McCambridge
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'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause, and of obstinacy in a bad one.


Laurence Sterne
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The terror of failure can make you feel like a failure. So a bunch of people think you're not very good at your thing. How much do you invest in what they say? How much do you care? Failure is not putting yourself on the line.
Dylan Moran
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To sum up my idea of on-ice costume fashion sense, it's probably that too much is never enough.


Johnny Weir
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A 41-inch bust and a lot of perseverance will get you more than a cup of coffee - a lot more.


Jayne Mansfield
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There's a silly notion that failure's not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.
Elon Musk
Because our fight has been for such a long time we are isolated from the world, even after reconstruction we don't have much attention from people outside.
Hanoi Hannah
Most of the time I liked school and got good grades. In junior high, though, I hit a stumbling block with math - I used to come home and cry because of how frustrated I was! But after a few good teachers and a lot of perseverance, I ended up loving math and even choosing it as a major when I got to college.
Danica McKellar
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It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.
Samuel Smiles
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