PERSEVERANCE, n. A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.

Prefer enduring satisfaction to immediate gratification.

because much more often than you’d think, sheer persistence is the difference between success and failure.

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

Even more powerful than fate is the courage that bears it steadfastly.

The race isn't to the swift, it's to the thoughtful.

More things in this world have been accomplished in this world by persistence than by wisdom.

Patience and time do more than force and rage.

It's a funny word, persistence. It means not giving up, but it also means just passing on through time.

Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance.

It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself,
than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all
connected with you.

The victory one would gain after a whole life of work and effort is better than one that is gained sooner.

Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds.

I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.