Persistence Persistence Persistence Quotes

#1. Persistence, persistence, persistence. I'm surprised how few entrepreneurs follow up.

Mark Suster

#2. While persistence offers no guarantees, it does give 'luck' a chance to operate.

Tom Shippey

#3. Chase your dreams even with the last breath.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. and the best of me is diligence.

William Shakespeare

#5. In life there is nothing more common than talent and intelligence. What is missing is passion, persistence, commitment, and dedication.

Calvin Coolidge

#6. I wrote a book. It sucked. I wrote nine more books. They sucked, too. Meanwhile, I read every single thing I could find on publishing and writing, went to conferences, joined professional organizations, hooked up with fellow writers in critique groups, and didn't give up. Then I wrote one more book.

Beth Revis

#7. Success is experienced when opportunity meets preparation, persistence, and prayer.

Temeko Richardson

#8. Energy and persistence conquer all things.

Benjamin Franklin

#9. It's not about what you're capable of, it's about what you are willing to endure.

Orrin Woodward

#10. Persistence breeds success.

J. Eric Booker

#11. We need to remember that our fight is spiritual. Our battle is a fight of faith, will, long suffering, and persistence.

Sunday Adelaja

#12. First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice.

Octavia E. Butler

#13. Failure is often the line of least persistence.

Zig Ziglar

#14. Persistence wears down resistance.

William J. Federer

#15. Cat, I'll let you in on a little secret. We don't all love our jobs every day. And doing something you have passion for doesn't make the work part of it any easier ... It just makes you less likely to quit.

Kate Jacobs

#16. The Charkha, which is the embodiment of willing obedience and calm persistence, must therefore succeed before there is civil disobedience.

Mahatma Gandhi

#17. Richness is the output of lengthy years full of discipline, hard work, persistence and Self-Belief.

Rajasaraswathii

#18. As an early-and-often chronicler of Chicago-on-the-Potomac, I am amazed at the stubborn and clingy persistence of President Barack Obama's snowblowers in the media. See no scandal, hear no scandal, speak no scandal.

Michelle Malkin

#19. Persistence is the virtue by which all other virtues bear fruit.

Arturo Graf

#20. Sometimes life requires more of you than you have to give & demands you plunge into the reinvention of yourself if you truly wanna live.

Curtis Tyrone Jones

#21. I give you points for persistence, but you lose a few for being slow on the uptake. (Rae)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#22. A champion, he said, wins a World Series or an Olympic and is hoisted on the shoulders of teammates and fans. A hero carries the people on his shoulders. Champions live for the moment- heroes, like Jackie Robinson, transcend time.

Sharon Robinson

#23. To persist with a goal, you must treasure the dream more than the costs of sacrifice to attain it.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#24. Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.

Cormac McCarthy

#25. Ninety percent of success come from the choices you make; the other ten percent comes from persistence.

Debasish Mridha

#26. Attitude, humor and action (persistence) will whip fears and rejection. Fear of failure doesn't exist, if you believe it doesn't.

Jeffrey Gitomer

#27. Life is a fairytale of courage, fear, failure, persistence and triumph.

Debasish Mridha

#28. Delayed gratification helps you to do more, persistent and get better reward and greater profit.

Sunday Adelaja

#29. Is anything truly impossible? Or is it that the path to our goals appears too unclear to follow? It seems to me that if you seek hard enough, pray hard enough, you usually stumble across a scattering of breadcrumbs that marks the trail leading to the goal you once considered beyond your reach.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#30. I think a mantra I always told myself is, "No matter how many times somebody pitches the ball at you, if you swing every time, eventually one of them is going to connect." Being yourself and persistence are two things that became my daily mantras, I suppose.

Jamie Bell

#31. Courage is the first of human qualities, because it is the quality that guarantees all the others.
- Winston Churchill

Carl Hansen

#32. She and me? We the same in some fings. We live. The others, those orphan kids, they dead. Because she and me, we want to live and we do anyfing to make that happen. That's the difference between us and the others.

Melina Marchetta

#33. We are born in this world to lose as well as to gain, to have happiness as well as misery. Enrich your mind by understanding this and improve, gaining stability thereby.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

#34. Persistence is important in every endeavor. Whether it's finishing your homework, completing school, working late to finish a project, or "finishing the drill" in sports, winners persist to the point of sacrifice in order to achieve their goals.

Lee Ellis

#35. Persistence is a writer's best friend disguised as a bully.

A.M. McKnight

#36. It can be done. It will be done.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#37. What matters is that life is good. It has a lovely texture, like some rich cloth or fur, or the petals of flowers, and everything else worthwhile. And that's as true for the last man as the first.

Fritz Leiber

#38. I was brought up on a farm, and I've learned that every opportunity that I've had in my life has come from hard work and persistence.

Susan Bysiewicz

#39. I don't stop when I am tired, I stop when I am done

James Bond

#40. I've been writing since I was six. It is a compulsion, so I can't really say where the desire came from; I've always had it. My breakthrough with the first book came through persistence, because a lot of publishers turned it down!

J.K. Rowling

#41. The foundation of the Buddha's teachings lies in compassion, and the reason for practicing the teachings is to wipe out the persistence of ego, the number-one enemy of compassion.

Dalai Lama

#42. The persistence of unpowered studies in psychological research: Causes, consequences, and remedies,

Ellis

#43. I've been very fortunate, because I've been involved in things that very often lead to obscurity. I was in some pictures that were not successful whatsoever. I think people admire persistence. People notice that I'm still there.

Christopher Walken

#44. In many U.S. schools, sports instilled leadership and persistence in one group of kids while draining focus and resources from academics for everyone. The lesson wasn't that sports couldn't coexist with education; it was that sports had nothing to do with education.

Amanda Ripley

#45. To be a success, all we need is a purpose oriented journey filled with love and persistence.

Debasish Mridha

#46. You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.

Isaac Asimov

#47. The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#48. Persistence is the key to solving most mysteries.

Christopher Pike

#49. Knowing that one thing you want is a great step. Sure, whether you prefer or not, you'll get offers, and many will seem that one thing you want.

Ufuoma Apoki

#50. The people you need to make your goals and visions happen aren't just going to call you or walk up to you and hand you an opportunity. You have to go to them. And you must have a plan for how you will approach them.

La La Anthony

#51. When resistance closes the door against you, remember that persistence holds the key. Don't give up too early; insist to endure to the end ... You will never regret it!

Israelmore Ayivor

#52. Character produces endurance and persistence when the going gets tough, and life truly is an endurance race, not a sprint.

Zig Ziglar

#53. What he found impossible was to shut off his brain, to detach himself from the intriguing problems with which (he) was involved, or to leave alone the major problems of war and peace, race and poverty, man's inhumanity to man and the persistence of stupidity.

Zelda Popkin

#54. Crazyass passion is the staple of life and persistence its nourishing force. Without them, you cannot cross the trail.

Rinker Buck

#55. I have a thing for things that last.

Criss Jami

#56. Belief creates conviction, conviction creates persistence, persistence creates perseverance and perseverance creates unlimited opportunities for greatness.

Jason Versey

#57. It's a funny word, persistence. It means not giving up, but it also means just passing on through time.

Questlove

#58. The essential ingredients for creativity remain exactly the same for everybody: courage, enchantment, permission, persistence, trust - and those elements are universally accessible. Which does not mean that creative living is always easy; it merely means that creative living is always possible.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#59. Difficulties are inevitable," I said. "Major projects require persistence.

Graeme Simsion

#60. Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.

Elon Musk

#61. ardent persistence in devotion,

David Bentley Hart

#62. Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.

Maya Angelou

#63. When life knocks you down you have two choices- stay down or get up.

Tom Krause

#64. Startup success is driven most by the product passion, quality, vision, team-work and persistence of the founding team and the talent that the team attracts.

Jim Breyer

#65. It takes courage, motivation, discipline, and persistence to get out of comfort zone.

Pearl Zhu

#66. Don't do something just for the money. Money is a side effect of persistence. You persist in things you are interested in. Explore your interests. Then persist. Then enjoy all the side effects.

James Altucher

#67. Slight persistent effort can move you successfully forward in anything you do.

Kelli Wilson

#68. Start over, and start over, and start over.

Nancy Ring

#69. Make the second effort your second nature.

Harvey MacKay

#70. The reason God responds to persistence is because prayer is changing the one who prays. As we pray, God is making us spiritually fit to receive what He is already willing to do.

James MacDonald

#71. I no longer wished to have a diluted life, made faint by living according to the norms and values of an older generation who'd forgotten what it felt like to have the impassioned representatives of soul and spirit lobby their vessel with an unrelenting persistence to take them on an adventure.

Ken Ilgunas

#72. Some never participate. Life happens to them. They get by on little more than dumb persistence and resist with anger or violence all things that might lift them out of resentment-filled illusions of security.
-Alma Mavis Taraza

Frank Herbert

#73. The relentless persistence of Light eventually exhausts darkness.

David B. Lentz

#74. Love, no matter how small, begets kindness.
Joy, no matter how small, begets cheerfulness.
Wisdom, no matter how small, begets intelligence.
Faith, no matter how small, begets persistence.
Genius, no matter how small, begets excellence.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#75. The grace and blessing of God is sufficient to carry us through the storms of life. With persistence and determination, victory awaits us at end of the journey.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#76. The persistence of the story of animal consent into the contemporary era tells of a human appreciation of the stakes, and a desire to do the right thing.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#77. In order to build a system of values you need time and persistence

Sunday Adelaja

#78. This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation.

Carroll Quigley

#79. No great achievement is possible without persistent work.

Bertrand Russell

#80. The finest thing under the sun and moon is the human soul. I marvel at the small miracles of kindness that pass between humans, I marvel at the growth of conscience, at the persistence of reason in the face of all superstition or despair. I marvel at human endurance.

Anne Rice

#81. The Motto of Champions: If you are hurt, you can suck it up and press on. If injured, you can rebound and return bigger and better ... and continue to inspire!

T.F. Hodge

#82. Without overcoming the obstacles on the path, how can you get to the top of the mountain?

Lailah Gifty Akita

#83. Who told you it was too late? And more importantly, why did you choose to believe them?

Richelle E. Goodrich

#84. If anyone can show me, and prove to me, that I am wrong in thought or deed, I will gladly change. I think the truth , which never yet hurt anybody. It is only persistence and self-delusion and ignorance which does harm.

Marcus Aurelius

#85. Through persistence, self-knowledge, prayer, commitment, optimism, a resolute trust in God and the building of your own personal moral strength, you can enjoy the blessings of a deeper faith and face the difficulties of life with courage and confidence.

Norman Vincent Peale

#86. Persistence is the source of great strength.

Debasish Mridha

#87. Accomplishment is one part commitment, one part ability, one part persistence, and one part circumstance. Circumstance we cannot control. The rest we might.

Dee Hock

#88. Don't give up in the middle of the journey.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#89. On my best days, I fancy myself a combination of Dad's persistence/patience and Mom's toughness/skepticism.

David Einhorn

#90. The secret of success is conviction and persistence.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#91. It doesn't matter if you're good. If you're just good, you won't succeed. If you have patience and persistence and talent and that's it, you will not have a successful career as an actor. The elusive thing you need is luck.

Bryan Cranston

#92. If your plan isn't working, adjust your plan. Never give up.

Matt Martin

#93. You can endure every hardship with hope.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#94. Anything is possible. You can be told that you have a 90-percent chance or a 50-percent chance or a 1-percent chance, but you have to believe, and you have to fight.

Lance Armstrong

#95. You must know the rules of the game, to play better.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#96. Tess was the merest stray phenomenon to Angel Clare as yet - a rosy, warming apparition which had only just acquired the attribute of persistence in his consciousness.

Thomas Hardy

#97. Trying again is okay. Trying again and again and again is okay. It's sort of an infinite thing because the alternative is failure, and that's not okay.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#98. Forgiveness is not a one off decision; it is a journey and a process that takes time, determination, and persistence. Forgiveness is not forgetting; it is simply denying your pain the right to control your life.

Corallie Buchanan

#99. Worrying paralyzes progress; prayer, preparation and persistence ensures it.

T.F. Hodge

#100. One thing we all know, if one does not possess PERSISTENCE, one does not achieve noteworthy success in any calling.

Napoleon Hill