“Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.”
Napoleon Hill (1883–1970) American author
“Whatever a man wants badly and persistently enough will determine the man's character.”
Source: The Root of the Righteous (1955), p. 116.
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Act IV, sc. i
Le Misanthrope (1666)