19. The Law of Persistence
Your ability to persist in the face of setbacks and disappointments is your measure of your belief in yourself and your ability to succeed.
Persistence is the iron quality of success. The most important asset you can have—the one quality that separates you from everyone else—is your ability to persist longer than anyone else.
The first corollary of the Law of Persistence is Persistence is self-discipline in action.
When you persist in the face of the inevitable setbacks, delays, disappointments, and temporary defeats you will experience in life, and you continue to persist in spite of them, you demonstrate to yourself and to the people around you that you have the qualities of self-discipline and self-mastery that ...
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