"A boy will dabble in a thousand pursuits and then drop them when he gets bored or they become too difficult. A man will always finish what he starts." -- Brett McKay, The Art of Manliness: Classic Skills and Manners for the Modern Man
And I might add, he always finishes what he begins because he doesn't begin anything he doesn't believe worth finishing.
A man who has his priorities in order and is living with assiduity knows why he is enduring the difficulties he is experiencing, so he sees them through because he has already seen them as valuable. They don't lose his interest in the midst of adversity; in fact, they likely gain attention and perhaps even affection.
If your interests evaporate once heat is applied to them, your resolve is measured in teaspoons when it should be measured in rivers.
Ecclesiastes 7:8
Better is the end of a thing than its beginning,
and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit
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