Persistence Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

Here is a collection of persistence quotes and sayings from various authors, celebrities, famous persons, and other sources compiled by allinspiration.com for you to read and enjoy.

“Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.”
– A. A. Milne

“My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“I do the very best I know how, the very best I can and I mean to keep doing so until the end.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.”
– Albert Einstein

“Difficult things take a long time, impossible things a little longer.”
– André A. Jackson

“To follow without halt, one aim; there is the secret of success.”
– Anna Pavlova

“Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.”
– Anne Lamott

“You are desperate to communicate, to edify or entertain, to preserve moments of grace or joy or transcendence, to make real or imagined events come alive. But you cannot will this to happen. It is a matter of persistence and faith and hard work. So you might as well just go ahead and get started.”
– Anne Lamott

“What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.”
– Antoine De Saint-Exupery 

“A door opens to me. I go in and am faced with a hundred closed doors.”
– Antonio Porchia

“Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out.”
– Art Linkletter

“Strength and courage aren’t always measured in medals and victories. They are measured in the struggles they overcome. The strongest people aren’t always the people who win, but the people who don’t give up when they lose.”
– Ashley Hodgeson 

“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.”
– Ayn Rand

“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 defeat.”
– B. C. Forbes

“You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.”
– Babe Ruth

“Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it’s not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. it’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.”
– Barack Obama

“Energy and persistence conquer all things.”
– Benjamin Franklin

“Little strokes fell great oaks.”
– Benjamin Franklin

“Thomas Edison tried 10,000 different materials before finding one that was suitable to serve as a light bulb filament. So if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. We need to set up a system where risk is rewarded. One where we recognize that failure helps us to increase our creativity. Nothing risked is nothing gained.”
– Beth Flynn

“Pull yourself together and use what you have.”
– Betsy Cañas Garmon

“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

“In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins – not through strength, but through persistence.”
– Buddha

“A jug fills drop by drop.”
– Buddha 

“If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.”
– Buddhist Saying

“Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination are omnipotent. The slogan “press on” has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.”
– Calvin Coolidge

“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.”
– Calvin Coolidge

“The slogan ‘press on’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.”
– Calvin Coolidge

“When you have a dream, you’ve got to grab it and never let it go.”
– Carol Burnett

“Nothing can be done except little by little.”
– Charles Baudelaire

“Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it.  I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.”
– Charles F. Kettering

“It doesn’t matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to ‘try again’.”
– Charles F. Kettering

“Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.”
– Christopher Morley

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
– Confucius

“Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.”
– Coretta Scott King

“Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs.  Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger.  If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.”
– Dale Carnegie

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