Persistence Quotes

“Talent is nothing without persistence.”

— Dean Crawford

Smile, breathe and go slowly.

— Anonymous

“Persistence breeds success.”

— J. Eric Booker

Never, ever, ever give up.

— Charles M. Schulz

Step by step the ladder is ascended.

— George Herbert

“The atom was split by persistence.”

— Walter Kirn

Every obstacle yields to stern resolve.

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Don't just wish for success, earn it!”

— Wesam Fawzi

“The ability to quit fully is as valuable a tool to living well as is persistence.”

— Peg Streep

“People stagger, but they pick up a tattered thread and wind it back onto a spool.”

— Donia Bijan

It's not what you start in life, it's what you finish.

— Katharine Hepburn

Yeah I want it all, that's why I strive for it

— Drake

If you can’t run, walk; if you can’t walk, crawl, but keep moving forward!

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement.

— Matt Biondi

If you are persistent, you'll get it. but you have to be consistent, to keep it…

— Anonymous

The best fighters in the world are people with nothing to lose.

— Anonymous

Irresolute men are sometimes very persistent in their undertakings, because if they give up their designs they would have to make a…

— Giacomo Leopardi

If you don't give up, eventually you will break the cycle and you will overcome any obstacle.

— Lyoto Machida

Straight white males: that's the predominant moviegoing category, and the persistence of that is a dismaying maintenance of the status quo.

— Wesley Morris

You're smart enough to figure things out and you're strong enough to get things done.

— Sonya Parker

“The web is a meritocracy, where passion and persistence are what place us in positions of influence.”

— Anonymous

It's good to remember that success may be just beyond the next failure, and you'll get there, not because you're destined to,…

— Steve Goodier

“You can always try another approach; even change your subject when a scientific strategy or experiment fails.”

— Ada Yonath

What is important is what inspires persistence and determination- in other words what you care about.

— David Maister

Never give up on your dream...Perseverance is all important. If you don't have the desire and the belief in yourself to keep…

— Tawni O'Dell

The essence of oligarchical rule is not father-to-son inheritance, but the persistence of a certain world-view and a certain way of life…

— George Orwell

“The chance that you will become a master in something after the first attempt is neither here nor there. You don't get…

— Israelmore Ayivor

Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it to a…

— Walter Murch

“Persistence is the devious alter-ego of perseverance. Perseverance provides us the stamina to realize our visions, whereas persistence drives us into self-destruction.”

— Joan Marques

This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who…

— Carroll Quigley

I think writers always want to be taken seriously as writers, but it's not always possible. There's a difference between persistence and…

— Chris Kraus

Whenever I look at the history of presidents I deeply admire - the one thing that I'm always struck by is persistence.…

— Barack Obama

“Ignorance has one virtue: persistence. It will insist through dogged persistence on leading others to follow its vision no matter how misguided.…

— John Kramer

I remember as a child of eight being told by a young friend that I had killed Christ. That was news to…

— Sid Fleischman

The line between failure and success is so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it. How…

— Elbert Hubbard

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction…

— George Santayana

“A great example in nature of finding simple solutions but being persistent is that of a River flowing through the land. Now…

— Anubhav Srivastava

The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish something. The strongest, by dispensing his over many,…

— Thomas Carlyle

You must be really bad, because it is a puzzle. Creating anything is hard. It’s a cliché thing to say, but every…

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

“Life has moments that feel as if the sun has blackened to tar and the entire world turned to ice.  It feels…

— Richelle E. Goodrich