Benjamin Franklin Quotes

Continual dropping wears away a stone.

Remember that the most difficult tasks are consummated, not by a single explosive burst of energy or effort, but by the constant daily application of the best you have within you.

Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.

If the biographer gives me credit for being a plodder, he will describe me justly. Anything beyond this will be too much. I can plod. I can persevere in any definite pursuit. To this I owe everything.

What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

Slow and steady wins the race, and I believe in paying your dues.

And you very soon find out, if you have not found it out before, that patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

Slow and steady wins the race. 'The hare and the tortoise

Constant dripping hollows out a stone.

There were a number of definitions of courage, but now I was seeing it in its simplest form: you do what has to be done day after day, and you never quit.

Slow but steady wins the race.

Plodding wins the race.

There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.

I'd look at one of my stonecutters hammering away at the rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet, at the hundred and first blow it would split in two, and I knew it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.

I like to do things that you need to chip away at.

Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.

The only plan was to persevere.

You don't achieve success by "taking it easy" or "working on it later." You achieve it thru persistence and hard work.

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Constant dropping wears away stones