Top 100 Quotes About Persistence
#1. Persistence is key when you want to achieve. You can't afford to quit just because you don't feel good about failure.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#2. When the problem [quantum chromodynamics] is finally solved, it will all be by imagination. Then there will be some big thing about the great way it was done. But it's simple -it will all be by imagination, and persistence.
Richard P. Feynman
#3. I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people.
Maya Angelou
#4. After taking risk into account, do more managers than you'd see by chance outperform with persistence? Virtually every economist who studied this question answers with a resounding 'no.'
Eugene Fama
#5. There is one prevailing key to success. Do what you resolve to do. Then you'll be a success. If you can discipline yourself to follow through on your promises to yourself, your self-esteem goes up. Persistence is self-discipline in action. Self-discipline is the foundation of self-confidence .
Brian Tracy
#6. Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.
Bill Bradley
#7. Forgiveness takes intelligence, discipline, imagination, and persistence, as well as a special psychological strength, something athletes call mental toughness and warriors call courage.
Edward M. Hallowell
#8. Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement.
Matt Biondi
#9. Benjamin Franklin said, "Energy and persistence conquer all things."79
Tim Sanders
#10. Learning to deal with setbacks, and maintaining the persistence and optimism necessary for childhood's long road to mastery are the real foundations of lasting self-esteem.
Lilian Katz
#11. Persistence is the soul of a champion.
Alan Webb
#12. [Robinson Crusoe] is the true prototype of the British colonist. The whole Anglo-Saxon spirit is in Crusoe: the manly independence, the unconscious cruelty, the persistence, the slow yet efficient intelligence, the sexual apathy, the calculating taciturnity.
James Joyce
#13. I demand a lot from myself and reflect this attitude upon others: I consider it to be an important quality for a leader. I also think it is impossible to achieve success without persistence.
Yelena Baturina
#14. Have the confidence to fail. Persistence is key.
Jessica Walsh
#15. The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
Napoleon Hill
#16. The lifeblood of Christianity is not our persistence in moving toward God but God's persistence in moving toward us.
Tullian Tchividjian
#17. Persistence in prayer for someone whom we don't like, however much it goes against the grain to begin with, brings about a remarkable change in attitude.
F.F. Bruce
#18. Asking in faith requires honesty, effort, commitment, and persistence.
David A. Bednar
#19. Persistence and determination are always rewarded.
Christine Rice
#20. Replace perfectionism with persistence. After all, in recovery and life, it's persistence that really pays off. Forget about perfection.
Jenni Schaefer
#21. One couldn't even measure roughness. So, by luck, and by reward for persistence, I did found the theory of roughness, which certainly I didn't expect and expecting to found one would have been pure madness.
Benoit Mandelbrot
#22. Mastery is not a function of I.Q. or natural talent or wealthy parents who can send you to the best school, but rather the result of going through a learning process, fueled by the desire to grow and the persistence to push past any obstacles.
Robert Greene
#23. They key of persistence opens all door closed by resistence
John Di Lemme
#24. Vigilance in watching opportunity, tact and daring in seizing upon opportunity, force and persistence in crowding opportunity to its utmost of possible achievement - these are the martial virtues which must command success
Austin Phelps
#25. In fact, "talent" is as common as mud; what's rare is the motivation to sit down and actually do something with one's talent, the discipline to do it regularly, and the persistence to stick with it until it's finished.
Patricia C. Wrede
#26. Persistence is the quality of winners. Successful people never, never give up.
Lynda Field
#27. Not realizing what you want is a problem of knowledge. Not pursuing what you want is a problem of motivation. Not achieving what you want is a problem of persistence.
John C. Maxwell
#28. The persistence of an all-absorbing idea is terrible.
Victor Hugo
#30. As the tides of life rise and fall, life is constant, like the waves crashing upon the shore. Persistence is the key in high and low times ...
James A. Murphy
#31. To be an entrepreneur, it just takes a lot of persistence, dedication, and drive. No matter what happens, you have to be wiling to get back up and try again.
Jeet Banerjee
#32. Orthodoxy is marked by sobriety, not by emotional enthusiasm. It is also marked by a quite "ordinary" persistence in living the humble, consistent life of Christ, not by seeking out extraordinary experiences, especially supernatural ones.
Andrew Stephen Damick
#33. Persistence is a pretty important part of making it in this business, which, in retrospect, is the easy part. Maintaining a profile is the difficult part of the job. Somehow or another, I muddled through that system and somehow am around to still enjoy playing for people.
Chris Squire
#34. This power is made up of the principles described in this book. In the story of the Declaration of Independence it will not be difficult to detect at least six of these principles: DESIRE, DECISION, FAITH, PERSISTENCE, THE MASTER MIND and ORGANISED PLANNING. Throughout
Napoleon Hill
#35. Being gifted intellectually is only a small part of the equation of success. Concentrate on the factors you have control over: persistence, self-discipline, confidence. Far more failures are due to lack of will than lack of ability.
Terry Bradshaw
#36. I think all musicians have at one time or another experienced one physical problem or another. I have had tendinitis a couple of times, so I try to be really careful. It takes patience and persistence to overcome injury.
Yo-Yo Ma
#38. Most fisherman, including this one, cling to their pet stupidities as they would to a battered briar or an old jacket; and their dogged persistence in wrong methods and general wrong-headedness finally wins the a sort of grudging admiration, if not many fish.
John D. Voelker
#39. Living the dream is simply a form of living out your passion, of making that passion gradually, through persistence and effort, a central part of your life.
Urijah Faber
#40. Doggedness depends on emotional traits - enthusiasm and persistence in the face of setbacks - above all else.
Daniel Goleman
#41. I don't think it's quite that simple. Some people never observe anything, Life just happens to them. They get by on little more than a kind of dumb persistence, and they resist with anger and resentment anything that might lift them out of that false serenity.
Frank Herbert
#42. When you collect bad loans ... you sure learn a lot about making good ones. You also learn a lot about the power of persuasion, persistence and desperation.
John Stumpf
#43. But their strength is the strength of numbers and of stubbornness and persistence; do not underestimate it.
Robin McKinley
#44. Ignorance is not bad faith. But persistence in ignorance is.
Joanna Russ
#45. We're designed for persistence hunting, which is a mix of running and walking. What's built into that kind of running is a sense of pleasure. You are designed and built and perfect for this activity, and it should be enjoyable and fun.
Christopher McDougall
#46. Implement your plans with courage and persistence. Have complete faith in your ability to succeed and never, ever give up.
Brian Tracy
#47. Persistence, persistence, and persistence. The Power can be created and maintained through daily practice - continuous effort.
Bruce Lee
#48. Persistence can only break the hearts of those we love and of ourselves as well, not to mention the purse of society that should be spent for the care of others who have not yet lived their allotted time.
Sherwin B. Nuland
#49. A genius is usually born on the way to relentless perfection with tireless persistence.
Debasish Mridha
#51. My persistence is the measure of the belief I have in myself.
Walt Disney
#52. I think the most important trait for an entrepreneur is persistence. When you try to do something new and difficult, you are more likely to fail than to succeed.
Trip Adler
#53. Success is the byproduct of desires, purpose-oriented actions, and persistence.
Debasish Mridha
#54. Often, failure is success trying to be born in a bigger way, and persistence helps you to experience that greater result.
Catherine Ponder
#55. Persistence is the great measure of individual human character.
Brian Tracy
#56. Persistence is the measurement of your belief in yourself.
Brian Tracy
#57. If you care to know, majority of successful people in the world were all struck by limitations in one way or the other. What made them great isn't the absence of limitations; but it was their persistence to rise in the face of those limitations.
Israelmore Ayivor
#58. There are no shortcuts. There are no substitutes. Success is a derivative of persistence.
Mark Batterson
#59. Quitting is an essential life tool, but nobody wants to be called a "quitter." Society values persistence and celebrates heroes who reach their goals against all odds. Sometimes fear of failure keeps you going even when your goal is unrealistic.
Anonymous
#60. Passion and persistence are what matter. Dreams are achievable and you can make your fantasy come true, but there are no shortcuts. Nothing happens without hard work.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#61. Add persistence to patience, you get perseverance. Multiply perseverance, you get success.
Manuela George-Izunwa
#62. I don't believe in luck ... It's persistence, hard work, and not forgetting your dream.
Janet Jackson
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. We hold on so tightly, because we're terrified of loss. We hold on till our hands bleed. And in that self-shattering persistence, we fail to see the answer: Just let go.
Yasmin Mogahed
#67. If you fail at something, it means you have not mastered the art. With persistence practice, you will be master and eventually succeed.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#68. Use your natural powers - of persistence, concentration, and insight - to do work you love and work that matters. Solve problems, make art, and think deeply
Susan Cain
#69. Volcker relied on public opinion, integrity, and persistence to overcome the political pressure to finance government spending the easy way, by printing money rather than by taxation.
William L. Silber
#70. Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.
Denis Waitley
#71. I have been so struck by the mettle of the men who founded this country and wrote the Constitution. What unbelievable persistence and integrity. I wonder if any of us would have the attention span required to forge a whole new world. I wish we did.
Rosanne Cash
#72. Be patient with yourself.
The journey of life requires alot of patient, persistence and perseverance.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. I don't believe there is such a thing as unanswered prayer. There is misguided prayers, selfish prayers, and doubting prayers, but true prayer doesn't go unanswered - it is merely abandoned prematurely due to lack of persistence and faithful endurance.
Leslie Ludy
#76. We never really know and the very fact that there are such words in the language as disappointment, regret, etc., is testimony to the pervasiveness and persistence of this feature of the human condition.
Thomas Sowell
#77. For years they have pursued me. Their persistence has kept me underground ... forced me to live in purgatory ... laboring beneath the earth like a chthonic monster.
Dan Brown
#78. The single most important route of success is persistence - never, ever give up!
Terry Matthews
#80. 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
#81. On my best days, I fancy myself a combination of Dad's persistence/patience and Mom's toughness/skepticism.
David Einhorn
#82. TRULY, "thoughts are things," and powerful things at that, when they are mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a BURNING DESIRE for their translation into riches, or other material objects. A
Napoleon Hill
#84. The secularizing 'values' and events that have been predicted would happen in the Muslim world have now begun to unfold with increasing momentum and persistence due still to the Muslims' lack of understanding of the true nature and implications of secularization as a philosophical program.
Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas
#85. 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
#87. Thoughts are things, and powerful things at that, when they are mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire ...
Napoleon Hill
#88. The unhappy persistence of both the practice and the lingering effects of racial discrimination ... is an unfortunate reality ... and the government is not disqualified from acting in response to it.
Sandra Day O'Connor
#91. To be something, to be himself, and always at one with himself, a man must act as he speaks, must know what course he ought to take, and must follow that course with vigour and persistence.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#92. 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
#93. I've known entrepreneurs who were not great salespeople, or didn't know how to code, or were not particularly charismatic leaders. But I don't know of any entrepreneurs who have achieved any level of success without persistence and determination.
Harvey MacKay
#94. Anything lost, can be found again, except for time wasted
A vision without action is merely a dream
Action, it's the grind, it's the hustle, it's the persistence
Kevin Gates
#95. I swam across Skaneateles Lake, about a mile, when I was 11 years old. I remember feeling when I was in the middle of the lake that I would be there forever, and having no idea where on shore I'd end up. I made it, and I'm proud of the determination and persistence that took.
Kim Edwards
#96. Persistence is nothing more than staying in motion
Ken Evoy
#98. An aspirational diet will have you dreaming of success; but it's the attachment of expectations and tangible goals that feeds the desire, persistence, and fortitude required to make the win.
Lorii Myers
#99. The secret of happiness is freedom but to be totally free you need to earn: courage, persistence and boldness.
Santosh Kalwar
#100. Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.
Steve Martin
