Persistence Quotes

573 quotes by 415 authors

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
Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence. — Ovid
Everything in this world happens for a reason yet nothing in this world comes free. Hard work, endurance, determination, persistence, and strong will are key,… — Moez Masoud
You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it.… — Octavia Butler
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.... — Thomas A. Edison
How often-even before we began-have we declared a task 'impossible'? And how often have we construed a picture of ourselves as being inadequate?...A great deal… — Piero Ferrucci
What we resist persists. — Sonia Johnson
Often we can achieve an even better result when we stumble yet are willing to start over, when we don't give up after a mistake,… — Sharon Salzberg
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.… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
All great successes are the triumph of persistence. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Real excellence does not come cheaply. A certain price must be paid in terms of practice, patience, and persistence - natural ability notwithstanding. — Stephen Covey
Successful charitable fund-raising has much in common with managing a business: It requires leadership, persistence, and creativity. — David Rockefeller
Implement your plans with courage and persistence. Have complete faith in your ability to succeed and never, ever give up. — Brian Tracy
Vigilance in watching opportunity, tact and daring in seizing upon opportunity, force and persistence in crowding opportunity to its utmost of possible achievement - these… — Austin Phelps
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… — Sandra Day O'Connor
...The Court ...[recognizes]...the persistence of racial inequality and a majority's acknowledgement of Congress's authority to act affirmatively, not only to end discrimination, but also to… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Only in the steady and constant application of force lies the very first prerequisite for success. This persistence, however, can always and only arise from… — Adolf Hitler
Failure cannot cope with persistence. — Napoleon Hill
If you want to be rich, never give up. People tend to give up. If you have persistence, you will come out ahead of most… — Jordan Belfort
Passion + Persistence = Possibility — Jon Bon Jovi

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