Persistence Quotes And Sayings

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“Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.”
– Napoleon Hill

“The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.”
– Napoleon Hill

“Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.”
– Napoleon Hill

“The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to the job.”
– Napoleon Hill

“Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.”
– Newt Gingrich

“It’s always too early to quit.”
– Norman Vincent Peale

“Lots of people limit their possibilities by giving up easily. Never tell yourself this is too much for me. It’s no use. I can’t go on. If you do you’re licked, and by your own thinking too. Keep believing and keep on keeping on.”
– Norman Vincent Peale

“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. That’s why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.”
– Octavia Butler

“For now you know one of the greatest principles of success; if you persist long enough you will win.”
– Og Mandino

“But the moment you turn a corner you see another straight stretch ahead and there comes some further challenge to your ambition.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now.”
– P. T. Barnum

“There are very few cases of overnight success. Most success cases–including rock bands who seem to explode out of nowhere–involve longer term persistence and commitment to an interest.”
– Patrick Combs

“He conquers who endures.”
– Persius

“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.”
– Piero Ferrucci

“God is with those who persevere.”
– Quran

“Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection.”
– Rabindranath Tagore

“By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Just do what you do best.”
– Red Auerbach

“As a means to success, determination has this advantage over talent – that it does not have to be recognized by others.”
– Robert Brault

“Stubbornly persist, and you will find that the limits of your stubbornness go well beyond the stubbornness of your limits.”
– Robert Brault

“Saints are sinners who kept on going.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson

“Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.”
– Robert Schuller

“Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.”
– Samuel 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, when something doesn’t come easily but we throw ourselves into trying, when we’re not afraid to appear less than perfectly polished.”
– Sharon Salzberg

“What we resist persists.”
– Sonia Johnson

“Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it.”
– St. Teresa Of Avila

“I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance…”
– Steve Jobs

“When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop there. But if you keep going, and live with the problem and peel more layers of the onion off, you can often times arrive at some very elegant and simple solutions.”
– Steve Jobs

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