持之以恒

chí zhī yǐ héng

to pursue unremittingly (idiom); to persevere

持

chí

to hold

之

zhī

(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的[de5])

以

yǐ

abbr. for Israel 以色列[Yi3 se4 lie4]

恒

héng

variant of 恆|恒[heng2]