Perseverance

Wounded while breaking a siege of seven kings, the elder of two brother warhorses refuses to be replaced, finishing the battle before dying in the king's honor.

In Jataka 23, a mortally wounded warhorse refuses a substitute steed, breaking the final siege before urging the king toward mercy.

Jataka No. 243: Guttila trains Musila with full generosity, but pride and a rigged contest undo the pupil when Sakka lets snapped lute strings sing on.

Jātaka No. 56: a young monk wants to quit over the many rules. The Buddha gives him three, and tells of a farmer who carried a heavy gold bar home in pieces.

A black bull given to a poor old woman repays her devotion by pulling five hundred stranded carts, winning wages a merchant then tried to withhold.

A wise but ugly prince loses his wife the moment she sees his face, and follows her through four disguises and a god-engineered siege to win her back.

A shipwrecked prince swims for seven days, wins a stolen throne through four tests, then walks away from it despite his own wife's every attempt to stop him.

Jātaka No. 2: a caravan lost in a desert survives when one young servant keeps digging. The Buddha uses it to restore a monk who gave up.