“Imagination, devotion, perseverance, together with divine grace, will assure your success.”
Address on the 18th anniversary of his coronation (2 November 1948)
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Joseph Addison (1672–1719) politician, writer and playwright
The earliest appearance of this proverb yet located is in Eliza Cook's Journal Vol. 11, (1854), p. 128, and the earliest attribution to Addison yet found is in Public Ledger Almanac (1887), p. 20.
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“Patience and perseverance are never more thoroughly Christian graces than when features of prayer.”
Samuel I. Prime (1812–1885) American clergyman, traveler, and writer
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 461.
“The simple truth is that perseverance in good policies is the only avenue to success…”
Dean Acheson book Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department
Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department (1969), Principles
“Purity, patience, and perseverance are the three essentials to success and, above all, love.”
Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher
Pearls of Wisdom
Bu Ali Shah Qalandar (1209–1324) Indian Sufi saint
Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 270
Bonaventure (1221–1274) franciscan, bishop, cardinal, Doctor of the Church, catholic saint
The Journey of the Mind to God
Steve Jobs (1955–2011) American entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple Inc.
The Computerworld Smithsonian Awards Program Oral History Interview http://americanhistory.si.edu/comphist/sj1.html, Advice for Future Entrepreneurs (20 April 1995) <br class="br">1990s <br class="br">Context: I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance. It is so hard. You put so much of your life into this thing. There are such rough moments in time that I think most people give up. I don't blame them. Its really tough and it consumes your life. If you've got a family and you're in the early days of a company, I can't imagine how one could do it. I'm sure its been done but its rough. Its pretty much an eighteen hour day job, seven days a week for awhile. Unless you have a lot of passion about this, you're not going to survive. You're going to give it up. So you've got to have an idea, or a problem or a wrong that you want to right that you're passionate about otherwise you're not going to have the perseverance to stick it through. I think that's half the battle right there.
“Where there is devotional music, God with his grace is always present.”
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) German late baroque era composer
Bei einer andächtigen Musik ist allezeit Gott mit seiner Gnaden Gegenwart.
Annotation in a copy of the Calov Bible, cited from John Butt (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Bach (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), p. 256; translation from ibid., p. 46