The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.

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"When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck."

- James Whitcomb Riley

Awareness

"I cannot say, and I will not say That he is dead. He is just away."

- James Whitcomb Riley

Faith

"And the humming bird that hung like a jewel up among the tilted honeysuckle horns. They mesmerized and swung In the palpitating air. Drowsed with odors strange and rare. And, with whispered laughter, slipped away. And let him hanging there."

- James Whitcomb Riley

Positivity

"Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these."

- James Whitcomb Riley

Persistence

"The most essential factor is persistence – the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come."

- James Whitcomb Riley

Persistence

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"You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction."

- George Lorimer

Determination

"The most difficult thing is the decision to act; the rest is merely tenacity."

- Amelia Earhart

Determination

"When I believe in something, I’m like a dog with a bone."

- Melissa McCarthy

Determination

"Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it’s done right."

- Walt Disney

Determination

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

- Theodore Roosevelt

Determination