Quotes and Sayings about Persistence
"Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence."
- Hal Borland
(Related: Meaning, Patience, Persistence, Trees)
"Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in."
- Bill Bradley
(Related: Success, Ambition, Persistence)
"To make our way, we must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity. We must gear ourselves to work hard all the way. We can never let up."
- Ralph Bunche
(Related: Work, Persistence, Tenacity)
"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
(Related: Persistence, Thinking, Writing)
"Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak."
- Thomas Carlyle
(Related: Soul, Perseverance, Discouragement, Persistence)
"Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success."
- Dale Carnegie
(Related: Success, Quality, Enthusiasm, Persistence, Sense)
"When we say that the persistence of competition is ensured by fate, we mean that individual freedom is so guaranteed. The one thing to which fate binds us is liberty."
- John Bates Clark
(Related: Competition, Fate, Freedom, Liberty, Persistence)
"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
(Related: Education, Talent, Genius, People, Determination, Nothing, Persistence, Will, World)
"Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance."
- Anthony J. D'Angelo
(Related: Ignorance, Passion, Persistence)
"Ambition is the path to success, persistence is the vehicle you arrive in."
- William Eardley IV
(Related: Success, Ambition, Persistence)
"The art of love is largely the art of persistence."
- Albert Ellis
(Related: Art, Love, Persistence)
"Writing is the only thing I've ever done with persistence, except for being married."
- Richard Ford
(Related: Being, Persistence, Writing)
"Energy and persistence conquer all things."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Energy, Persistence)
"The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows."
- Milton Glaser
(Related: Talent, Desire, Persistence, Will)
"Paralyze resistance with persistence."
- Woody Hayes
(Related: Persistence)
"Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel."
- Napoleon Hill
(Related: Character, Man, Persistence)
"Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success."
- Napoleon Hill
(Related: Success, Patience, Persistence)
"The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job."
- Napoleon Hill
(Related: Job, Persistence)
"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
(Related: Men, Failure, Majority, Persistence)
"A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success."
- Elbert Hubbard
(Related: Success, Failure, Effort, May, Persistence)
"As for goals, I don't set myself those anymore. I'm not one of these 'I must have achieved this and that by next year' kind of writers. I take things as they come and find that patience and persistence tend to win out in the end."
- Paul Kane
(Related: Goals, End, Patience, Persistence, Writers)
"Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory."
- Herbert Kaufman
(Related: Success, Courage, Failure, Habit, Victory, Ambition, Persistence)
"What staggers me is not the persistence of illusion, but the persistence of the world in the face of illusion."
- A. G. Mojtabai
(Related: Illusion, Persistence, World)
"Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it to a higher level requires the same dedication and persistence that any art form does."
- Walter Murch
(Related: Art, Dedication, Film, Now, Persistence)
"Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence."
- Colin Powell
(Related: Success, Work, Failure, Hard work, Learning, Loyalty, Perfection, Persistence, Result)
"This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation."
- Carroll Quigley
(Related: Power, Knowledge, Evil, Inflation, Persistence, Public, Secrecy)
"The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come."
- James Whitcomb Riley
(Related: Determination, Enthusiasm, Discouragement, Energy, Persistence)
"Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these."
- James Whitcomb Riley
(Related: Determination, Effort, Man, Persistence, Will)
"I rewrote it and I took all your notes. Read it again, that kind of persistence paid off."
- David Steinberg
(Related: Persistence)
"When I meet successful people I ask 100 questions as to what they attribute their success to. It is usually the same: persistence, hard work and hiring good people."
- Kiana Tom
(Related: Success, Work, People, Successful, Hard work, Hiring, Persistence, Questions)
"Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning."
- Denis Waitley
(Related: Success, Winning, Effort, Energy, Persistence)
"As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time."
- Denis Waitley
(Related: Time, Day, Destiny, Persistence, Pursuit, Will)