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Here are some quotations Avenues to Success recently e-mailed to its subscribers reflecting the Avenue of Persistence. You'll also find links to websites of interest to college students, their parents, and everyone else.

Persistence is one of the six crucial Avenues that today's college students need to Succeed. The other five Avenues are:

* Courage
* Honor
* Integrity
* Leadership
* Personal Relationships


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The Avenue of Persistence 

Persistence Quotes for College Students *

* While the quotes are selected with college students in mind, everyone can pick up something from them.

Here are 25 of the latest Persistence Avenues. To see more quotes about persistence, click on to Avenues to Success Notes and select Quotes: Persistence in the Categories listing in the sidebar.
  • People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.
    - Thomas Szasz, Born 1920, Hungarian author, professor of psychiatry
  • Defeat is never fatal unless you give up.
    - Elbert Hubbard, 1856-1915, American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher
  • You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
    - Erica Jong, Born 1942, American writer
  • Luck is the residue of planning, preparation and skill.
    - Unknown
  • As long as you're green, you're growing.
    - Ray Kroc, 1902-1984, Founder of McDonald's
  • It is only going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there your treasure lies.
    - Joseph Campbell, 1904-1987, American author, mythology professor. He coined the phrase "Follow Your Bliss"
  • Like cars in amusement parks, our direction is often determined through collisions.
    - Yahia Lababidi, Born 1973, Egyptian - Lebanese writer
  • He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
    - Horace, 65-8 B.C.E., Roman poet and satirist
  • Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.
    - Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784, English lexicographer, essayist, poet
  • There are no barriers in life, only challenges.
    - Unknown
  • You may be whatever you resolve to be.
    - Andrew Jackson, 1767-1845, 7th President of the U.S., General (Nickname: Stonewall Jackson)
  • It is with many enterprises as with striking fire; we do not meet with success except by reiterated efforts, and often at the instant when we despaired of success.
    - Françoise d'Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon, 1635-1719, the morganatic second wife of King Louis XIV of France.
  • Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.
    - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, German poet, playwright, novelist, dramatist, philosopher
  • Four little words sum up what has lifted most successful individuals over the crowd: a little bit more. They did all that was expected of them and a little bit more.
    - A. Lou Vickery, Writer
  • Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
    - William Feather, 1889 -1981, American publisher and author
  • Every path has its puddle.
    - English Proverb, also attributed to George Herbert, 1593-1633, Welsh poet, orator and priest
  • Champion the right to be yourself, dare to be different and set your own pattern; live your own life and follow your own star. - from The Art of Living
    - Wifred Peterson, 1900-1995, American Writer
  • is not without many fears and distastes, and Adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
    - Francis Bacon, 1561-1626, English essayist, philosopher, statesman
  • I think success has no rules but you can learn a great deal from failure.
    - Jean Kerr, 1922, 2003, American author and playwright
  • A total commitment is paramount to reaching the ultimate in performance.
    - Tom Flores, Born 1937, American football player and coach
  • The abundant life does not come to those who have had a lot of obstacles removed from their path by others. It develops from within and is rooted in strong mental and moral fiber.
    - William Mather Lewis, 1878-1945, President of George Washington University 1923-1927
  • Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.
    - Sir Walter Scott, 1771-1832, Scottish historical novelist and poet
  • And so often times it happens, that we live our lives in chains, and never even know we have the key.
    - Already Gone by The Eagles, American rock band formed in the 1970s
  • If you really want to do something, you'll find a way; if you don't, you'll find an excuse.
    - Unknown (Seen it attributed to Jim Rohn, motivational speaker)
  • A grass-blade's no easier to make than an oak.
    - James Russell Lowell, 1819-1891, Poet, editor and diplomat

Remarks on persistence in commencement speeches 

Below are quotes by speakers at graduation ceremonies. I'm including high school and college selections. The links are to the source of the quote.
Williams College - June 1, 2008
To follow the arc of your own path and not be dissuaded takes a certain amount of confidence, passion and intensity, for how you do what you do will confer meaningfulness on what you have done.
Richard Serra - Sculptor

Other Sites you may want to visit 

Below are links to other Avenue to Success related sites and interesting websites and blogs that may be of interest.
PARENTS: Here is an Unique Opportunity to Help Your Students
Your student has charted a course for success, but still needs a partner to get there. You are that partner, and here's another way you can help!
ATS: Avenues to Success Notes
The purpose of this blog is to give customers some additional information about Avenues to Success. It also has links for additional information about the authors of the quotes.

There are also more links to other helpful sites.
The Ivy Files
A blog for high school students and twenty-somethings navigating life, work, and school.
How to Succeed in School and College
How do you want to spend your life? Do you want to spend it having the things you want and doing the things you enjoy?A good education can help you to have what you want throughout the rest of your life. Flunking your education, on the other hand, could mean that you spend your life in dead-end jobs.
Our Favorite Accept/Reject Letters
THE COLLEGE REJECTION LETTER By David Nyhan
This is the important thing: They didn't reject you. They rejected your resume.
Persistence
Have you ever noticed how powerful persistence is? - Career College Central News | Career College Central :has some interesting posting about the Career College Sector of Higher Education
College's High Cost, Before You Even Apply
The costs this New York Times article refers to is the cost in health due to the stress of the college application process.

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Reader Feedback 

Let us know how we are doing. Also, feel free to give us a great quote on persistence for the college student.

Sara_Bev

Thanks for visiting my lens. I have to say that persistence and tenacity are very important to achieving success on your own. I know this ounds strange but it is also important to know WHEN to keep going. Read 'The Dip' by Seth Godin.
Thanks! Sara B.

Posted May 06, 2008

Random Blog Posts from Google - Key Word - Persistence AND College 

Golf Channel is Expanding Coverage of Golf
Basically, CBS is going to farm out additional hours of PGA Tour coverage for the Golf Channel's air and Comcast is going to put CBS' struggling CBS College Sports into more homes. Jon Show and John Ourand explain at SBJ: ...
Announcements for Monday, Oct. 13, 2008
Congratulations to the Tawas Area High School Marching Band for their outstanding performance and 2nd place finish at the Alma Marching Band Invitational on Saturday at Alma College. The band scored a 74.1 overall, overtaking the ...
Students Are No Longer Surpassing Parents’ Educational Achievement
Regardless of race, the gender gap in the college enrollment rate continued among young people aged 18 to 24. Thirty-six percent of young men were enrolled in college in 2006 compared with 44 percent of young women. College Persistence ...
Getting cash for college will take time, persistence
If you've got a high school student in your house, it's never too early to start thinking about the college financial aid process, especially in these times of a shaky economy and spiraling college costs.

Persistence on Amazon 

Here's a selection of books related to this Avenue

Java Persistence with Hibernate

Amazon Price: $37.79 (as of 10/13/2008)

Creation and the Persistence of Evil

Amazon Price: $23.35 (as of 10/13/2008)

The Persistence of Yellow: Book of Recipes for Life

Amazon Price: $13.57 (as of 10/13/2008)

Pro EJB 3: Java Persistence API (Pro)

Amazon Price: $40.49 (as of 10/13/2008)

Persistence in the Enterprise: A Guide to Persistence Technologies (developerWorks Series)

Amazon Price: $39.99 (as of 10/13/2008)

Random Flickr Photos - Key Word - Persistence 

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We Can Do It!

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Tough Flowers

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