The basic Aphor list and a sublist Aphor Charles Scamahorn 

1. Don’t give up your aspirations until your body vacates breathing.

2. Make your key aspiration to perceive reality accurately and adapt to it as appropriately as possible.

3. Identify the impossible to achieve parts of your goals and avoid pursuing them.

4. When perseverance will bring the desired results, persevere, but when it won’t, don’t.

5. Ignorant people lack accurate information and persevere, but the stupid ones persist even when their goal is ridiculous.

6. The persistent application of our shared goal of kindness to one another will bring everyone to a contented life.

7. Pursuing a little thing gives a temporary meaning to one’s life, but a great goal will demand perseverance and grant contentment.

8. Perseverance requires the determination to return again and again to the chosen goal.

9. When we persevere for years at a task, it becomes our nature to continue doing it, and as our skill increases, our work becomes art.

10. Great people began as ordinary people but decided to do something great.

11. Set big distant goals for yourself with lots of small rewards built into the trip.

12. When compelled to do a job, do it well and have a defined finishing point because a half-done job ties up your energy.

13. Perseverance is like a game that you may play perfectly, but sometimes will lose to pure chance.

14. If you want to get where you are going, you have to start and keep going.

15. Being in the right place at the right time with the right stuff brings success, and a big part of the right stuff is perseverance.

16. Sometimes, you need native ability and training, ambition, luck and persistence, and yet again perseverance.

17. If what you choose to do can be done by you, get started and do it.