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Persistence Quotes
"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better."
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"I will take all the action there is, and even if I fail and fail and fail and fail and fail, I know like I know, that the door to this opportunity will one day get weakened by the forces of my attempts, and breaks wide open for me to get in."
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"You thought you had the choice to stay still or move forward, but your didn't. As long as your heart kept pumping an your blood kept blowing and your lungs kept filling, you didn't. The pang she felt for Tibby carried something like envy. You couldn't stand still for anything short of death, and God knew she had tried."
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"Until is a very important word. It means that you will never give up."
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"He knew that she took life as it came, opposed her tough-fibered mind to whatever obstacles there might be, fought on with a determination that would not recognize defeat, and kept on fighting even when she saw defeat was inevitable."
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"Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?"
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"The thing with giving up is you never know. You never know whether you could have done the job. And I'm sick of not knowing about my life."
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"I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full."
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"Encourage yourself and do it bit by bit. It may appear tough, but every single bite of it every day is an endorsement that all will be chopped off sooner. Nothing is too difficult!"
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"You've got to stick at a thing, a particular thing, until you succeed.I feel that's the only way to succeed - by concentrating on something in particular. Once you know what you've got to do you will succeed, you will succeed."
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"You only know you can do something if you keep on doing it."
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"The reason people fail to reach their goals is because they give up too early. They don't understand that most successes are built upon foundations of multiple attempts."
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"Giving up is the only sure way to fail."
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"You should persist long enough to conquer."
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"Have patience and keep working. Everything will come alright in time."
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"The most fascinating thing to me about your letter is that buried beneath all the anxiety and sorrow and fear and self-loathing, there's arrogance at its core. It presumes you should be successful at twenty-six, when really it takes most writers much longer to get there."
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"How easy it is to slip.How hard it is to climb.How wise it is to keep in stepAnd never fall behind."
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"Persistence is the fundamental ingredient of true success."
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"Persistence with hope has infinite power, it can create new ways when there is no way."
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"The main aim of some people is to criticize you to stop, and then they can start what you have stopped! Keep moving on in the right direction when you know deep within you where you are heading towards! Don't give up!"
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"If you are going to devote your time to do something you claim you love, take this thought; "Can I pursue this till the end? Am I sure I will never give up on it?" This is persistence."
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"In the movie business, the ones we call Lucky are usually those idiots who are just too damn stubborn to take no for an answer. Come to think of it, the movie business is kind of like life."
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"Since when is failure more appealing? Never give up."
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"Giving up isn't a deed. It is 'discontinuity' of a deed."
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"For some, putting in the time or work to be prepared and live deliberately is natural. For others? It's work. However, as in the words of Thomas Jefferson, "If you want something you have never had, you must be willing to do something you have never done."
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"To succeed even once you have to try at least once."
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"To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it."
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"Opportunity may come to the patient, but always comes to the persistent."
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"Persistence is a necessary ingredient for success."
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"There's a reason why golfers walk forward to their next shot. It's to move on."
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"With persistent focus, commitment and enthusiasm, your dream will be reality."
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"Be persistent like a mosquito, at the end you will get your bite."
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"Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time."
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"Step by step a mountain is conquered."
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"So often we quit on the first failure. We must persistent long enough to achieve success."
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"All my problems bow before my stubbornness."
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"If you do not have persistence then no amount of education, talent or genius can make up for it."
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"Persistence, perseverance, and continuous improvement are the ingredients for forming a successful person."
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"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root."
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"When you find yourself in the thickness of pursuing a goal or dream, stop only to rest. Momentum builds success."
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"I believe that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there will still be one more sound: that of man's puny, inexhaustible, voice still talking! ...not simply because man alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because man has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion, sacrifice and endurance."
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"What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended."
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"Never give up because when you give up, dreams get lost."
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"Patience is a virtue, but there comes a moment when you must stop being patient and take the day by the throat and shake it. If it fights back; fine. I'd rather end up bloody at the end of the day, then unhurt with no progress made, no knowledge gained. I'd rather have a no, then nothing. I'd forgotten that about myself."
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"Live in your dream. Refuse to wake up until it is completely over. Then dream again."
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"Strong enough to make holes in the rock are tiny drops of water that persist to fall. Persistence is the attitude that breaks down mountains one rock at a time!"
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"Talent does not automatically generate success. You can be talentless, but so long as you have fortitude then you will have success."
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"Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence."
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"Keep trying is success and giving up is failure."
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