PERSISTENCE QUOTES
quotations about persistence
What destiny sends, bear! Whoever perseveres will be crowned.
JOHANN GOTTFRIED HERDER
attributed, Beautiful Thoughts from German and Spanish Authors
Those who persevere understand that luck is something only failures believe in. Perseverance has other names -- persistence, determination, a can-do attitude. Success in life depends on your willingness to never give up, even when the reward is delayed.
HARVEY MACKAY
"Persistence is the key to success in our lives", Albany Times Union, March 19, 2018
Persistence is a fruit of the spirit. The spirit that enables one to cross from patience to longsuffering without knowing.
JOYCELYN DANKWA
Persistence Has Great Gain
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
attributed, Proverbial Wisdom: Proverbs, Maxims and Ethical Sentences, of Interest to All Classes of Men
If you are unhappy about something change it. Choose what you want in life, create your plan to get it, put your plan into action and follow through with persistence.
LATORRIA FREEMAN
Turn My Life Around
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
Major in Success
Diamonds are only chunks of coal,
That stuck to their jobs, you see.
MINNIE RICHARD SMITH
"Stick to Your Job", Poor Richard's Anthology of Thoughts on Success
Habit is persistence in practice.
OCTAVIA E. BUTLER
Bloodchild and Other Stories
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
speech, July 12, 2006
Persistence is a writer's best friend disguised as a bully.
A. M. MCKNIGHT
Goslyn County
Persistence guarantees that results are inevitable.
PARAMAHANSA YODANANDA
Sayings of Paramahansa Yogananda
Nothing can be done except little by little.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE
My Heart Laid Bare and Other Prose Writings
A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
ELBERT HUBBARD
attributed, The Search for the North Pole
More and more I have come to admire resilience.
Not the simple resistance of a pillow, whose foam
returns over and over to the same shape, but the sinuous
tenacity of a tree: finding the light newly blocked on one side,
it turns in another. A blind intelligence, true.
But out of such persistence arose turtles, rivers,
mitochondria, figs--all this resinous, unretractable earth.
JANE HIRSHFIELD
"Optimism"
Everywhere we look we see signs of persistence in those that are creating the most challenging and rewarding results. It is not always natural; it's a learned trait. What this means though, is that success is simply a choice.
JUSTIN SACHS
The Power of Persistence
When resistance closes the door against you, remember that persistence holds the key.
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR
Daily Drive 365
The truth is that persistence equals success. What I mean by this is that if we look at those who are the most successful in the world, persistence is the common denominator.
JUSTIN SACHS
The Power of Persistence
A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence.
ANONYMOUS
Persistence is like mowing the lawn, one blade at a time.
ANN MACINDOO
attributed, The Power of Persistence
Persistence is not sitting idle. Persistence is not a virtue if you sit back and wait for your problem to solve itself.
VINCENT N. PAUL
Persistence Works