52 Quotes on Persistence
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Whether
you're a schoolchild or a CEO, persistence is the factor that will allow you to
make the most of your natural ability.
Your natural ability in life is largely predetermined.
What you do with it is not. Persistence
is essential to success, and the more of it you display, the more you will
accomplish. It is persistence that will allow you to make the most of your
ability.
In the spirit of persistence, I'm not going to give up
easy and give you just 10 great quotes. Or even 20. Or 40. I'm going to persist
and give you 52 great quotes! Why 52? Because I was targeting 50 and thought I
would persist just a bit further. Find your favorite, print it, write it down,
or bookmark this page, and then refer back to it next time you feel like you
need a boost of energy or motivation. The list is ordered by first name--to
give you an idea of how broadly the importance of persistence ranges among
walks of life, this list consists of authors, sports icons, celebrities,
politicians, business luminaries, scientists, and more!
1.
Opportunities are
usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them. ~ Ann Landers
2.
It's not that I'm so
smart; it's just that I stay with problems longer. ~ Albert Einstein
3.
To follow, without
halt, one aim: There's the secret of success. ~ Anna
Pavlova
4.
We are what we
repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. ~ Aristotle
5.
Energy and
persistence conquer all things. ~ Benjamin
Franklin
6.
As long as there's
breath in You--Persist! ~ Bernard
Kelvin Clive
7.
No great achievement
is possible without persistent work. ~ Bertrand
Russell
8.
Ambition is the path
to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in. ~ Bill Bradley
9.
Champions keep
playing until they get it right. ~ Billy
Jean King
10.
My greatest point is
my persistence. I never give up in a match. However, down I am, I fight until
the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called
irretrievable defeats into victories. ~ Bjorn
Borg
11.
Nothing in this
world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more
common than unsuccessful men with talent. ~ Calvin
Coolidge
12.
Persistence and
determination are always rewarded. ~ Christine
Rice
13.
Success is the
result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and
persistence. ~ Colin Powell
14.
Flaming enthusiasm,
backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently
makes for success. ~ Dale Carnegie
15.
Talent is nothing
without persistence. ~ Dean
Crawford
16.
A little more
persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to
glorious success. ~ Elbert Hubbard
17.
Character consists
of what you do on the third and fourth tries. ~ James
A. Michener
18.
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
19.
Money grows on the
tree of persistence. ~ Japanese
Proverb
20.
The key of
persistence opens all doors closed by resistance ~ John Di Lemme
21.
Perseverance is
failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th. ~ Julie
Andrews
22.
Slight persistent
effort can move you successfully forward in anything you do. ~Kelli Wilson
23.
Let me tell you the
secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity. ~ Louis Pasteur
24.
P is for
Persistence! Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Wishing
will not; Talent will not; Genius will not; Education will not; Persistence is
like a Genie that creates a magical force in your life. ~ Lucas Remmerswaal
25.
Persistence is the
twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of
time. ~ Marabel Morgan
26.
If you can't fly,
then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but
whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
27.
You may encounter
many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to
encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how
you can still come out of it. ~ Maya
Angelou
28.
Patience,
persistence, and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success. ~ Napoleon Hill
29.
Persistence is to
the character of man as carbon is to steel. ~ Napoleon
Hill
30.
It always seems
impossible until it is done. ~ Nelson
Mandela
31.
Perseverance is the
hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did. ~ Newt Gingrich
32.
Patience and
persistence are the keys... The keys to unlock doors of success... With these
two virtues, you grow in reasoning and experience. ~ Ogwo David Emenike
33.
Only put off until
tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone ~ Pablo Picasso
34.
He conquers who
endures. ~ Persius
35.
Our greatest glory
is in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
36.
Press on. Nothing in
the world can take the place of persistence. ~ Ray
Kroc
37.
To persist with a
goal, you must treasure the dream more than the costs of sacrifice to attain
it. ~ Richelle E. Goodrich
38.
In my experience,
nothing worthwhile has ever really been all that easy. But it certainly has
been worthwhile regardless how difficult it seemed. ~ Robert Fanney
39.
If you do not have
persistence then no amount of education, talent, or genius can make up for it.
~ Stephen Richards
40.
The three great
essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second,
stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense. ~ Thomas
Edison
41.
Many of life's
failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when
they gave up. ~ Thomas Edison
42.
Our greatest
weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is to always try
just one more time. ~ Thomas
Edison
43.
Permanence,
perseverance, and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragement, and
impossibilities: It is this that in all things distinguishes the strong soul
from the weak. ~ Thomas Carlyle
44.
With ordinary talent
and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable. ~Thomas Foxwell Buxton
45.
I'm a great believer
in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. ~Thomas Jefferson
46.
We are made to
persist. That's how we find out who we are. ~ Tobias
Wolff
47.
All right Mister,
let me tell you what winning means... you're willing to go longer, work harder,
give more than anyone else. ~ Vincent
Lombardi
48.
Most people never
run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. ~ William James
49.
Continuous
effort--not strength or intelligence--is the key to unlocking our potential. ~ Winston Churchill
50.
Success is stumbling
from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." ~ Winston Churchill
51.
Paralyze resistance
with persistence. ~ Woody Hayes
52.
Consider the postage
stamp: Its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it
gets there. ~ Josh Billings
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