Best 843 quotes in «persistence quotes» category

It only 'doesn't work out' if you quit. Never, ever quit!

It's all about patience and persistence - you often have to expose a child to a new food numerous times before he or she will begin to like it. So keep trying!

It's easy .... it's a mind that is open to everything, yet attaches to nothing ... it's called freedom that's what it is, plain and simple!

It seems far-fetched, even preposterous, to blame the global economic order for the persistence of severe poverty in countries that are ruled by obvious thugs and crooks.

It's not a sin to get knocked down; it's a sin to stay down

It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

It’s easier to have courage and trust the process when you feel you’re making headway. Mastery is not persistence when you see a light at the end of the tunnel. True mastery is persistence when you don’t yet see the light.

I've never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.

I was relentless, even in the face of total lack of encouragement, because much more often than you'd think, sheer persistence is the difference between success and failure.

I will dance and resist and dance and persist and dance. This heartbeat is louder than death.

Keep showing up for your side of the job and give genius a chance to do its part.

Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal.

Lawsuits are not pink teas. They are battles.

Leaders don’t complain about what’s not working. Leaders celebrate what is working and work to amplify it.

Life is just the same as learning to swim. Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!

Lions don't have to roar. There is power in silence, confidence, and persistence. Those who work don't talk, and those who talk don't work. Handle your business. Measure your efforts by results. Focus your time, energy, and activity on mastering and executing a plan.

Little strokes fell great oaks.

Lying is common in social life, often done for benign purposes, seldom draws severe sanctions, and many of the most notable leaders, including the late Steve Jobs, were consummate prevaricators. Told with enough persistence and conviction, what was once untrue can become true, in a self-fulfilling prophecy sort of way.

I've heard a lot of great success stories from writers - how so many of them struggled to get where they are and how persistence pays off. I learned that some writers are good at doing readings and some are not so good at it.

Making the absolute best of ourselves is not an easy task. It is a pleasurable pursuit...but it requires patience, persistence, and perseverance.

Lucky is where skill meets persistence.

Mastery is not a function of I.Q. or natural talent or wealthy parents who can send you to the best school, but rather the result of going through a learning process, fueled by the desire to grow and the persistence to push past any obstacles.

Literature simply becomes richer after you've been fired, rejected, stranded, or had to change a few midnight diapers.

Most fisherman, including this one, cling to their pet stupidities as they would to a battered briar or an old jacket; and their dogged persistence in wrong methods and general wrong-headedness finally wins the a sort of grudging admiration, if not many fish.

Morale is the state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope. It is confidence and zeal and loyalty. It is élan, esprit de corps and determination.

Motivation fuels the attitude that builds the Confidence necessary to sustain the Persistence.

Negative thinking patterns can be immensely deceptive and persuasive, and change is rarely easy. But with patience and persistence, I believe that nearly all individuals suffering from depression can improve and experience a sense of joy and self-esteem once again.

My dad has always been really helpful. He taught me that talent is a bonus, but persistence is what wins out.

My mum used to say to me, 'Spit on yer 'ands and take a fresh 'old.' Keep going even if you have setbacks.

Many people in San Francisco know me, and they know my persistence.

Nick Diaz is a champion so he's got the spirit that comes with it. So he's not going to give up mentally. You see a lot of guys give up mentally and that's why they get knocked out or submitted. They give up mentally before they lose.

Nobody automatically believes in your dream. Nobody! You have to turn it into reality through your own sheer grit, bullheadedness and persistence.

No one ever achieved a goal by being interested in its achievement. One must be committed. In fact, in studying the source of people's success, I've found that persistence overshadows even talent as the most valued and effective resource in creating and shaping the quality of life. Most people give up a maddening five feet from their goal!

No great thing is created suddenly.

Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection.

Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

Obstinacy is will asserting itself without being able to justify itself. It is persistence without a reasonable motive. It is the tenacity of self-love substituted for that of reason and conscience.

No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through

One has to remember that every failure can be a stepping stone to something better.

Our determination to imitiate Christ should be such that we have no time for other matters.

Often, failure is success trying to be born in a bigger way, and persistence helps you to experience that greater result.

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.

Passion + Persistence = Possibility

Perhaps the greatest display of self-discipline is persisting when the going gets tough. Persistence is self-discipline in action.

Perseverance... keeps honor bright: to have done, is to hang quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail in monumental mockery.

Once a person has taken their life, in the inner realms, the suicide will repeat automatically the feelings of despair and fear which preceded his self murder, and go through the act and the death struggle time after time with ghastly persistence... They remain conscious - often entangled in the final scene of the earth life for a very long time, unaware that they have lost the physical body.

Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work though difficult problems.

Persistence is stubbornness with a purpose.

Persistence is the soul of a champion.