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America's economy is resilient, and I am confident that Republican pro-growth policies will continue to keep our economy growing - just as it has since after the September 2001 terrorist attacks.

Dennis Hastert

Politician · American · b. 1942

I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.

Arthur Miller

Playwright · American · 1915 – 2005

Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.

Lao Tzu

Philosopher

Pain was something we were expected to endure. But I doubt very much if you would be entirely happy today if a doctor threw a towel in your face and jumped on you with a knife.

Roald Dahl

Novelist · British · 1916 – 1990

To try to fashion something from suffering, to relish our triumphs, and to endure defeats without resentment: all that is compatible with the faith of a heretic.

Walter Kaufmann

Philosopher · German · 1921 – 1980

What is to give light must endure burning.

Viktor E. Frankl

Psychologist · Austrian · 1905 – 1997

Prolonged endurance tames the bold.

Lord Byron

Poet · British · 1788 – 1824

Much has been accomplished during the last year in the campaign against terrorism. This struggle will require vigilance, perseverance and sacrifice for many years to come.

Paul Cellucci

Politician · American · b. 1948

Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health.

Lord Chesterfield

Statesman · British · b. 1694

But I think it's important that things endure.

Robin Day

Journalist · British · 1923 – 2000

What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?

Gilbert Highet

Writer · Scottish · b. 1906

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

Marie Curie

Scientist · Polish · 1867 – 1934

Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.

Lord Chesterfield

Statesman · British · b. 1694

This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation.

Carroll Quigley

Writer · American · 1910 – 1977

As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage.

Lafcadio Hearn

Author · Japanese · 1850 – 1904

We in the press have a special role since there is no other institution in our society that can hold the President accountable. I do believe that our democracy can endure and prevail only if the American people are informed.

Helen Thomas

Journalist · American · b. 1920

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Titus Maccius Plautus

Poet · Roman

Humanity may endure the loss of everything; all its possessions may be turned away without infringing its true dignity - all but the possibility of improvement.

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Philosopher · German · 1762 – 1814

You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.

E. O. Wilson

Scientist · American · b. 1929

The road to perseverance lies by doubt.

Francis Quarles

Poet · English · 1592 – 1644

If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation, we shall find manifest examples of premeditation, perseverance, resolution, and consumate artifice, in order to effect their purpose.

William Bartram

Environmentalist · American · 1739 – 1823

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

Laurence Stern

Clergyman · Irish · 1713 – 1768

Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

The present will not long endure.

Pindar

Poet · Greek

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

Elie Wiesel

Novelist · American · b. 1928

And I am also here to say that if something were to happen, we are prepared to respond swiftly, to respond effectively, and to respond strongly. That is our tradition as a country. And that is a tradition that we will uphold, regardless of any circumstance because this nation is one that is very, very strong and, indeed, extraordinarily resilient.

Janet Napolitano

Politician · American · b. 1957

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.

Walter Elliot

Politician · Scottish · 1888 – 1958

A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long.

Eugene Delacroix

Artist · French · 1798 – 1863

He's a million rubber bands in his resilience.

Alan K. Simpson

Politician · American · b. 1931

We, of our time, have played our part in the perseverance, and we have pledged ourselves to the dead generations who have preserved intact for us this glorious heritage, that we, too, will strive to be faithful to the end, and pass on this tradition unblemished.

Eamon de Valera

Statesman · Irish · 1882 – 1975

It is often better to have a great deal of harm happen to one than a little; a great deal may rouse you to remove what a little will only accustom you to endure.

Grenville Kleiser

Author · American

Heroism is endurance for one moment more.

George F. Kennan

Historian · American · 1904 – 2005

What everyone in the astronaut corps shares in common is not gender or ethnic background, but motivation, perseverance, and desire - the desire to participate in a voyage of discovery.

Ellen Ochoa

Astronaut · American · b. 1958

The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows.

Milton Glaser

Designer · American · b. 1929

I can plod. I can persevere in any definite pursuit. To this I owe everything.

William Carey

Clergyman · English · 1761 – 1834

Because, you know, resilience - if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn't a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.

Jeff Bezos

Businessman · American · b. 1964

The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.

Ted W. Engstrom

What staggers me is not the persistence of illusion, but the persistence of the world in the face of illusion.

A. G. Mojtabai

A doctor is fascinated by death, and pain. And how much pain a man can endure.

David Boehm

In the early 1930s, flying from England to Australia was the longest flight in the world. It was considered extremely dangerous and hazardous, pushing pilots to the limits of mechanical skills and human endurance. Aviation was young.

Mary Garden

Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure the feeling that it must resign itself to passive acceptance of changes introduced from above.

Czeslaw Milosz

Poet · 1911 – 2004

It helps, I think, to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith, to endure, to help each other when we stumble or tire, to weep and press on.

Mary Richards

Nothing to mountaineering, just a little physical endurance, a good deal of brains, lots of practice, and plenty of warm clothing.

Annie Smith Peck

Only by strict specialization can the scientific worker become fully conscious, for once and perhaps never again in his lifetime, that he has achieved something that will endure. A really definitive and good accomplishment is today always a specialized act.

Max Weber

Economist · German · 1864 – 1920

Learn to adjust yourself to the conditions you have to endure, but make a point of trying to alter or correct conditions so that they are most favorable to you.

William Frederick Book

This we had to endure with a serious reduction in the price of goods - added to this early in the ensuing spring our glost oven fell while firing doing us considerable damage and rendering it necessary to build a new one.

John Hawley

We've always been able to bounce back.

Tim Salmon

Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears.

Gillian Anderson

Actress · b. 1968

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