Energy and persistence conquer all things.
In plain words
Keep your energy up and refuse to quit. That pair wins almost anything.
Where these words come from
- 36% sureLots of sources credit Benjamin Franklin with this, and they agree with each other. The book or the speech it first came from hasn't turned up yet.
- widely attributed to Poor Richard's Almanack, no primary source found — absent from Franklin's Wikiquote page entirely, and a dedicated Poor Richard's-quotes compilation (benfranklinvirtues.com) lists it without any year/edition citation, unlike its neighboring properly-cited entries.
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It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
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