Perseverance
What is perseverance?
- Perseverance is commitment, hard work, patience, endurance.
- Perseverance is being able to bear difficulties calmly and without complaint.
- Perseverance is trying again and again.
You show perseverance when you ...
- Give up your tv time to spend hours studying
- Try a new sport that is very difficult but you don't give up
- Have a learning disability but keep studying even when discouraged
- Come from a home where there is fighting and unhappiness but you still try your best
- Have missed a week of school but you work hard to catch up
- Are at the end of a difficult race but you cross the finish line
- Save money and make sacrifices to buy something
- Spend hours practicing on your music
- Study and work hard to raise your grade
- Try out for something you weren't successful at the first time
Proverbs and maxims
- Failure is the path of least persistence.
- All things will come round to him who will but wait. (Longfellow)
- Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.
- Work hard and give it your best shot; never be a quitter. (Charley Taylor)
More quotes on perseverance
- Victory belongs to the most persevering. (Napoleon Bonaparte)
- Hitch your wagon to a star. (Emerson)
- To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage to a man. (Euripides)
- You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. (Beverly Sills)
- Many strokes overthrow the tallest trees. (John Lyly)
People who persevered despite handicaps and disabilities
- Beethoven (composer) - was deaf
- Ray Charles (musician) - is blind
- Thomas Edison (inventor) - had a learning problem
- Albert Einstein (scientist) - had a learning disability
- Terry Fox (runner) - is an amputee with cancer
- Stevie Wonder (musician) - is blind
- James Earl Jones (actor) - was a stutterer
- Helen Keller (author) - was deaf and blind
- Marlee Matlin (actress) - is deaf
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (president) - was paralyzed from polio
- Vincent Van Gogh (artist) - was mentally ill
- Woodrow Wilson (president) - had a learning problem
- Itzhak Perlman (concert violinist) - was paralyzed from the waist down
- Stephen Hawking (physicist) - had Lou Gehrig's disease (of the nervous system)
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