Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

It’s not by strength or speed or swiftness of body that great deeds are done, but by wisdom, character, and sober judgment.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

Sometimes I think the greatest talent of all is perseverance.

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

Perseverance is surer than swiftness.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few priveledged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.

good work isn’t created in a vacuum,

I always say perseverance is nine-tenths of any art — not that it's much help to be nine-tenths an artist, of course.

Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.

It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.