Quotes About Persistence

#1. Persistence is victory. Just . . . keep . . . going. It doesn't matter if things aren't going the way you thought they would or if you're facing a disappointment. The only defeat is in quitting. If you keep going, you're winning.

Mara Schiavocampo

#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. Assessment coordinators need to be knowledgeable about general higher education topics (e.g., student persistence, the cost of higher education, diversity, and student learning); they must also know how those play out at specific institutions.

Kimberly Yousey-Elsener

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

Calvin Coolidge

#7. 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

#8. The basis of persistence is the Power of Will.

Napoleon Hill

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

Temeko Richardson

#10. To be a success you need to have persistence of drive, persistence of vision, and persistence of action. You will be doing yourself a disservice by not staying resilient.

Meghan Wier

#11. Energy and persistence conquer all things.

Benjamin Franklin

#12. With persistence and never-ending improvements you can be the best.

Debasish Mridha

#13. I believe that persistent effort, supported by a character-based foundation, will enable you to get more of the things money will buy and all of the things money won't buy.

Zig Ziglar

#14. Never has man reached his destination by persistence in deviation from the straight path.

Mahatma Gandhi

#15. Intelligence entails a strong mind, but genius entails a heart of a lion in tune with a strong mind.

Criss Jami

#16. The real test of love is loving those who we feel are the hardest ones to love.

Criss Jami

#17. Persistence overshadows even talent as the most valuable resource shaping the quality of life.

Tony Robbins

#18. When I meet successful people I ask 100 questions as to what they attribute their success to. It is usually the same: persistence, hard work and hiring good people.

Kiana Tom

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

Orrin Woodward

#20. To make a great dream come true, the first requirement is a great capacity to dream; the second is persistence.

Cesar Chavez

#21. Successful charitable fund-raising has much in common with managing a business: It requires leadership, persistence, and creativity.

David Rockefeller

#22. God's heart ... is not that we escape our lot, but that we learn to thrive in the midst of it.

Mary E. DeMuth

#23. The approach required more persistence than imagination, but it produced remarkable results.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#24. Persistence breeds success.

J. Eric Booker

#25. It is not always possible to do away with negative thinking, but with persistence and practice, one can gain mastery over them so that they do not take the upper hand.

Stephen Richards

#26. Persistence creates genius; without persistence, there is no winner.

Debasish Mridha

#27. There is no such thing as a quantum leap. There is only dogged persistence - and in the end you make it look like a quantum leap.

James Dyson

#28. Be consistent with what you believe and do. Persist and insist that you will do it till it's done and done well.

Israelmore Ayivor

#29. Persistence guarantees that results are inevitable.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#30. I'm just not in a writing mood, but I keep going. What if the garbage man were not in a garbage mood? or the doctor not in a healing mood?

Jean Nicole Rivers

#31. College stirred in her a certain contempt for virtues like kindness and persistence. She would have appeared to have been a kind and persistent person herself, but a steady diet of Antonioni films and an introductory course on existentialism had awakened her to the fact that she wanted more.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#32. Persistence is often a detective's greatest ally.

Lara Adrian

#33. In order to make our gifts perfect, you need to work on yourself but it hurts

Sunday Adelaja

#34. Persistence separates those who want it more.

Tony Curl

#35. I'm a big believer in persistence, don't be greedy and, above all, work hard. It's what keeps me going.

Caprice Bourret

#36. The sky is not my limit...I am.

T.F. Hodge

#37. Our modern conception of the universe is so foreign to what even scientists generally believed a mere century ago that it is a tribute to the power of the scientific method and the creativity and persistence of humans who want to understand it.

Lawrence M. Krauss

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

Sunday Adelaja

#39. "Morale is the state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope. It is confidence and zeal and loyalty. It is elan, esprit de corps and determination."

George C. Marshall

#40. Patience and persistence are vital qualities in the ultimate successful accomplishment of any worthwhile endeavor.

Joseph Pilates

#41. Persistence is the fundamental ingredient of true success.

Debasish Mridha

#42. Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Herbert Kaufman

#43. God's grace grant us immeasurable ability to overcome adversity of any type.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#44. 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

#45. Sacred soul has indomitable strength.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#46. The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

Napoleon Hill

#47. I love all my scoop children. But consistency and persistence is really my aim.

Kara Swisher

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

Zig Ziglar

#49. Persistence wears down resistance.

William J. Federer

#50. 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

#51. An unpublished writer should doubt themselves. They should constantly wonder whether what they're creating has merit. And then, having doubted, they should take up their pen and see if they can't make it better.

Johnny Rich

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Rajasaraswathii

#54. Persistence is the most traveled path to success.

Bryant McGill

#55. Persistence is the iron quality of success; if you persist long enough you must eventually succeed

Brian Tracy

#56. 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

#57. Patience and perseverance at lengthAccomplish more than anger or brute strength.

Jean De La Fontaine

#58. My father had a very simple view of life: you don't get anything for nothing. Everything has to be earned, through work, persistence and honesty. My father also had a deep charm, the gift of winning our trust. He was the kind of man with whom many people dream of spending an evening.

Grace Kelly

#59. Obstinacy is will asserting itself without being able to justify itself. It is persistence without a reasonable motive. It is the tenacity of self-love substituted for that of reason and conscience.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#60. We ain't giving up," I said. "We done gone this far.

Ernest J. Gaines

#61. The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.

James Whitcomb Riley

#62. Persistence let you achieve.
Consistency let you improve.
Stacey Fowler

Stacey Fowler

#63. The ordeal is not that truth does not win; it is that it wins in the end.

Raheel Farooq

#64. start something, with a knowledge to end it.

Krishna Sagar

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

Arturo Graf

#66. Science is a cosy, friendly club of specialists who follow their numerous different stars; it is proud and wonderfully productive but never certain and always hampered by the persistence of incomplete world views.

James E. Lovelock

#67. 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

#68. Be persistent and diligent in the way you spend your time daily

Sunday Adelaja

#69. The Jews are known for their perseverance and this is what helps them achieve their goals. Perseverance means continuous persistence in a course of action, a purpose, in spite of difficulties, obstacles, or discouragement.

H.W. Charles

#70. Don't ever give up.
Don't ever give in.
Don't ever stop trying.
Don't ever sell out.
And if you find yourself succumbing to one of the above for a brief moment,
pick yourself up, brush yourself off, whisper a prayer, and start where you left off.
But never, ever, ever give up.

Richelle E. Goodrich

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

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#72. When I have tried and failed, I shall have failed.

Sophocles

#73. 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

#74. I believe persistence is a major key to success in any great endeavor. I want to remind folks to PERSIST in whatever they are tackling at the moment!

Andy Andrews

#75. Love never fails. Character never quits. And with patience and persistence, dreams do come true

Pete Maravich

#76. Whatever you accomplish in a lifetime will be in direct proportion to the intensity and persistence of your faith

Bob Proctor

#77. The Keynesian prescription for unemployment rests on the persistence of a 'money illusion' among workers, i.e., on the belief that while, through unions and government, they will keep money wage rates from falling, they will also accept a fall in real wage rates via higher prices.

Murray Rothbard

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

Richelle E. Goodrich

#79. The future of the world depends on the full restoration of the Sacred Feminine in all its tenderness, passion, divine ferocity, and surrendered persistence.

Andrew Harvey

#80. Today is a BRAND NEW day - a perfectly good reason to get up and start over. Never give up.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#81. Success is when persistence meets preparation.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#82. The unbearable persistence of hope

Barbara Kingsolver

#83. Do you know why I am unstoppable? It is because I decide my stopping line.

~ Aarush Kashyap

Kirtida Gautam

#84. A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

Elbert Hubbard

#85. There is a price to be paid for any accomplishment.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#86. The atom was split by persistence.

Walter Kirn

#87. The weak can't bear to face their weaknesses in the presence of our strength.

Crystal Woods

#88. One of the tests that I frequently use in an interaction is I push on the idea and what I'm looking for is both flexibility & persistence.

Reid Hoffman

#89. In one and the same fire, clay grows hard and wax melts.

Francis Bacon

#90. Persistence in a single view has never been regarded as a merit in political leaders.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#91. Precariousness and precarity are intersecting concepts. Lives are by definition precarious: they can be expunged at will or by accident; their persistence is in no sense guaranteed

Judith Butler

#92. Persistence is a characteristic to which success invariably surrenders.

Catherine Ponder

#93. Life is an enduring faith.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#94. Faith, persistence and hard work pays off.

Daniel Marques

#95. The secrets of success are persistence, patience, and perfection.

Debasish Mridha

#96. Average people and the average community can change the world. You can do it just based on common sense, determination, persistence and patience.

Lois Gibbs

#97. When a storm comes, bamboo bends. It doesn't break.

Michelle Moran

#98. I can bow to fear and flee the pursuit of great things. I can bow to God and engage in the pursuit of making things great.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#99. There is genius in persistence. It conquers all opposers. It gives confidence. It annihilates obstacles. Everybody believes in a determined man. People know that when he undertakes a thing, the battle is half won, for his rule is to accomplish whatever he sets out to do.

Orison Swett Marden

#100. No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through

Lucretius