Persistence Quotes And Sayings

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“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”
– Dale Carnegie

“Sometimes you must cross a bridge and other times you need to burn it. But, always keep building one and never lose your faith in life.”
– Dodinsky

“The dreams of the broken are mightier than the wishes of the dead.”
– Dodinsky

“Great beginnings are not as important as the way one finishes.”
– Dr. James Dobson

“Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.”
– Earl Nightingale

“Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.”
– Edward Eggleston

“Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more.”
– Edward Harriman

“Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there’s love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.”
– Ella Fitzgerald

“I frequently-regularly-often trip while reaching for my high ideals.  Then I giggle, or cry, and get back up.”
– Erika Harris

“Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald

“If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.”
– Flavia Weedn

“When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The country demands bold, persistent experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it; if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are.  I don’t believe in circumstances.  The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.”
– G.B. Shaw

“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.”
– Gary Zukav

“One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.”
– George Allen 

“Step by step the ladder is ascended.”
– George Herbert

“Never think that God‘s delays are God’s denials.  Hold on; hold fast; hold out.  Patience is genius.”
– Georges-Louis Leclerc

“In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins—not through strength but by perseverance.”
– H. Jackson Brown

“Let perseverance be your engine and hope your fuel.”
– H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

“Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.”
– H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

“When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, never give up then, for that is just the time when the tide will turn.”
– Harriet Beecher Stowe

“Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.”
– Harvey Mackay

“Make the second effort your second nature.”
– Harvey Mackay

“We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.”
– Helen Keller

“Perseverance is a great element of success. If you knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.”
– Jacob A. Riis

“Success has a price tag on it, and the tag reads courage, determination, discipline, risk taking, perseverance, and consistency – doing the right things for the right reasons and not just when we feel like it.”
– James M. Meston

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