"The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is: that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't." - Henry Ward Beecher

"The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never blanches, the thought that never wanders, the purpose that never wavers - these are the masters of victory." - Edmund Burke

"Less good from genius we may find than that from perseverance flowing; so have good grist at hand to grind, and keep the mill a-going." - Thomas English

"The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed up in these two - common sense and perseverance." - Owen Feltham

"Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow." - Plutarch

"By perseverance the snail reached the ark." - Charles Haddon Spurgeon

"'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause, and obstinacy in a bad one." - Laurence Sterne

"No rock so hard but a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years." - Alfred Lord Tennyson