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Positive Quotes about Persistence

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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu

Related topics: Wisdom Inspirational Nature Live-By Urgency Time Simple Simplicity Perseverance

Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb

Life is not about how fast you run
or how high you climb
but how well you bounce.
- Vivian Komori

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water,
yet nothing can resist it.
- Lao Tzu

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You are never given a wish without also
being given the power to make it true.
You may have to work for it, however.
- Richard Bach

Never give up on the most important goals in your life.
Never give up on your life purpose.
Never give up on your core values.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.
- the character Morpheus in the movie The Matrix

 

We can do anything we want to
if we stick to it long enough.
- Helen Keller

Ideas, yes.
Inspiration, yes.
Creativity, yes.
Planning, yes.
Perseverance, yes.
More perseverance, yes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
- George Savile

When the water starts boiling
it is foolish to turn off the heat.
- Nelson Mandela

Never, never, never give up.
- Winston Churchill

Patience, persistence, and perseverance.
A little more each day, a little better each day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

No great thing is created suddenly.
- Epictetus

If a warrior is to succeed at anything,
the success must come gently,
with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.
- Carlos Castaneda

You can have anything you want -
if you want it badly enough.
You can be anything you want to be,
do anything you set out to accomplish
if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
- Abraham Lincoln

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman,
before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
- John Quincy Adams

The probability that we may fail
in the struggle ought not to deter us
from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
- Abraham Lincoln

Energy and persistence conquer all things.
- Benjamin Franklin

Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.
- Virgil

It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
- Eddie Cantor

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
- Benjamin Disraeli

When you find your path, you must not be afraid.
You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes.
Disappointment, defeat, and despair are
the tools God uses to show us the way.
- Paulo Coelho

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 alone are omnipotent.
- Calvin Coolidge

I'm not a genius.
I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.
You have only to persevere to save yourselves.
- Winston Churchill

Genius is one percent inspiration
and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
- Thomas Edison

The key to everything is patience.
You get the chicken by hatching the egg,
not by smashing it open.
- Arnold H. Glasgow

The price of success is hard work,
dedication to the job at hand,
and the determination that whether we win or lose,
we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
- Vince Lombardi

Keep moving. Don't stop. But don't rush.
Don't race around.
Sure and steady gets you there every time.
- Neale Donald Walsch

It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill

The sum of wisdom is that
time is never lost that is devoted to work.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Patience, persistence and perspiration
make an unbeatable combination for success.
- Napoleon Hill

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools,
but the gentle touches of air and water
working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
- Henry David Thoreau

The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
- Herbert Kaufman

Persistence prevails when all else fails.
- Anonymous

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

Balance activity with serenity,
wealth with simplicity,
persistence with innovation,
community with solitude,
familiarity with adventure,
constancy with change,
leading with following.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A little more persistence,
a little more effort, and
what seemed hopeless failure
may turn to glorious success.
- Elbert Hubbard

When you get into a tight place
and everything goes against you,
till it seems you cannot hold on a minute longer,
never give up then, for that is just
the place and time the tide will turn.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe

I think and think for months and years.
Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false.
The hundredth time I am right.
- Albert Einstein

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?
- Henry David Thoreau

The world will persist in exhibiting before you
what you persist in affirming the world is.
- Emma Curtis Hopkins

In the councils of government,
we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence,
whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power
exists and will persist.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence,
whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
The potential for the disastrous rise
of misplaced power exists and will persist.
We must never let the weight of this combination
endanger our liberties or democratic processes.
We should take nothing for granted.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower in his Farewell Address of January, 17 1961

What you resist, persists.
- Carl Jung

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy

Life's most persistent and urgent question is,
'What are you doing for others?'
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The distinction between the past, present and future
is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
- Albert Einstein

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
- Albert Einstein

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace.
A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being
that places harmony in one's life.
- Peace Pilgrim

He who is persistent will realize God.
So try your best to make meditation
a regular experience in your life.
- Paramahansa Yogananda

Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather

The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu

The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There are trivial truths and there are great truths.
The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
- Niels Bohr

Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news.
The good news is that you don't know how great you can be!
How much you can love!
What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
- Anne Frank

These are not dark days -
these are great days.
- Winston Churchill

There is a great future in front of you,
you can leave your past behind.
- Joel Osteen

Great spirits have always encountered
violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein

Great talents are the most lovely
and often the most dangerous
fruits on the tree of humanity.
They hang upon the most slender twigs
that are easily snapped off.
- Carl Jung

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson

Confidence is the most important single factor in this game,
and no matter how great your natural talent,
there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
- Jack Nicklaus

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks
in great and honorable courses
with a sure hope and trust in itself.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

Keep courage. Whatever you do,
do not feel sorry for yourself.
You will win in a great age of opportunity.
- Richard L. Evans

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak.
Strong convictions precede great actions.
- Louisa May Alcott

You will become as small as your controlling desire;
as great as your dominant aspiration.
- James Allen


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