perseverance
diligence, hard work, backbone, constancy, continuance dedication, determination, doggedness, drive, endurance, grit, guts, immovability, indefatigability, moxie, persistence, pertinacity, pluck, prolonging, purposefulness, pursuance, resolution, sedulity, spunk, stamina, steadfastness, stick-to-itiveness, tenacity
Sure beats apathy, idleness, indolence, laziness, lethargy