Pastel Horizon by Dan Sutherland

Perseverance: Steady persistence in a course of action or purpose, especially in spite of difficulties, obstacles or discouragement.

• When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on…Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Consider the postage stamp:  its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there…Josh Billings

• Fall seven times, stand up eight…Japanese Proverb

• It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer…Albert Einstein

• There is no telling how many miles you will have to run while chasing a dream…Unknown Author

• Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it.  I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down…Charles F. Kettering

• Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines…Robert Schuller

• With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable…Thomas Foxwell Buxton

• Difficult things take a long time, impossible things a little longer…Unknown Author

• Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting…Christopher Morley

• Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.  Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before…Jacob A. Riis

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