Persistence Quotes

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

The secret of success is conviction and persistence.

One thing we all know, if one does not possess PERSISTENCE, one does not achieve noteworthy success in any calling.

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

If you are doing all you can to the fullest of your ability as well as you can, there is nothing else that is asked of a soul.

Don't do something just for the money. Money is a side effect of persistence. You persist in things you are interested in. Explore your interests. Then persist. Then enjoy all the side effects.

What we resist persists.

Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.

It's a funny word, persistence. It means not giving up, but it also means just passing on through time.

When a person trains once, nothing happens. When a person forces himself to do a thing a hundred or a thousand times, then he certainly has developed in more ways than physical. Is it raining? That doesn't matter. Am I tired? That doesn't matter either. Then willpower will be no problem.

One mistake does not have to rule a person's entire life.

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.

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 depends upon the thought patterns we choose and on the persistence with which we affirm them.

Success requires persistence, the ability to not give up in the face of failure. I believe that optimistic explanatory style is the key to persistence.

There's no "magic secret"; writing is like everything else; ten percent inspiration or talent, and ninety percent hard work. Persistence; keeping at it till you get there. As Agnes de Mille said, it means working every day—bored, tired, weary, or with a fever of a hundred and two.

Lions don't have to roar. There is power in silence, confidence, and persistence. Those who work don't talk, and those who talk don't work. Handle your business. Measure your efforts by results. Focus your time, energy, and activity on mastering and executing a plan.

That's like a dream come true. To be able to hire friends, to shoot a movie in the neighborhood where you grew up. To have it released. It's actually a dream. How many people can say that their first film got distributed and out there? What are the odds? My persistence made the odds work for me.

If you take any activity, any art, any discipline, any skill-take it and push it as far as it will go, push it beyond where it has ever been before, push it to the wildest edges of edges, then you force it into the realm of magic.

Perhaps the greatest display of self-discipline is persisting when the going gets tough. Persistence is self-discipline in action.

Persistence is self-discipline in action.

I'm very determined and stubborn. There's a desire in me that makes me want to do more and more, and to do it right. Each one of us has a fire in our heart for something. It's our goal in life to find it and to keep it lit.

The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.

Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.

The secret of our success is that we never, never give up.

Every setback means you're one step closer to seeing the dream come to pass.

At every crossway on the path that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past. Let us have no fear that the fair towers of former days be sufficiently defended. The least that the most timid among us can do is not to add to the immense dead weight that nature drags along.

Lying is common in social life, often done for benign purposes, seldom draws severe sanctions, and many of the most notable leaders, including the late Steve Jobs, were consummate prevaricators. Told with enough persistence and conviction, what was once untrue can become true, in a self-fulfilling prophecy sort of way.

Literature simply becomes richer after you've been fired, rejected, stranded, or had to change a few midnight diapers.

You will make some mistakes but, if you learn from those mistakes, those mistakes will become wisdom and wisdom is essential to becoming wealthy.

Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.

No one will hit you harder than life itself. It doesn't matter how hard you hit back. It's about how much you can take, and keep fighting, how much you can suffer and keep moving forward. That's how you win.

Focused will is incredible. If you have a dream and you don’t give up no matter what obstacles come up, then life’s problems will fall away and you will get what you want. It happens. It works.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

And there are people that will stand in your corner and convince you to stand up for another round no matter what.

Two little mice fell in a bucket of cream. The first mouse quickly gave up and drowned. The second mouse, wouldn't quit. He struggled so hard that eventually he churned that cream into butter and crawled out. Gentlemen, as of this moment, I am that second mouse.

Well, in regards to surfing, I’ve learned that there is always another wave coming. Translated that means there is always tomorrow. No matter how badly you get caught inside, if you can just hang in there and keep paddling, the set is going to pass and there will be a lull afterwards. So don’t give up, just take your pounding, wait until the set passes, then make your move.

We are not a failure just because we fail at something. Nobody is a failure unless they quit trying!

Faith, sympathy - fiery faith and fiery sympathy! Life is nothing, death is nothing, hunger nothing, cold nothing. Glory unto the Lord - march on, the Lord is our General. Do not look back to see who falls - forward - onward! Thus and thus we shall go on, brethren. One falls, and another takes up the work

Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.

Leaders don’t complain about what’s not working. Leaders celebrate what is working and work to amplify it.

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

Healing the wounds of the earth and its people does not require saintliness or a political party, only gumption and persistence. It is not a liberal or conservative activity; it is a sacred act.

All great achievements require time.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it. How many a person has thrown up his or her hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience, would have achieved success. A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.