top of page
.png){kind=small}
Persistence Quotes
"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."
25
"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!"
24
"I can't go on, I'll go on."
24
"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."
21
"Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?"
21
"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."
21
"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better."
20
"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."
19
"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."
18
"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."
18
"You should persist long enough to conquer."
17
"Have patience and keep working. Everything will come alright in time."
17
"How easy it is to slip.How hard it is to climb.How wise it is to keep in stepAnd never fall behind."
15
"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."
15
"Giving up is the only sure way to fail."
15
"Persistence with hope has infinite power, it can create new ways when there is no way."
14
"Since when is failure more appealing? Never give up."
14
"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."
14
"Persistence is a necessary ingredient for success."
13
"Be persistent like a mosquito, at the end you will get your bite."
13
"To succeed even once you have to try at least once."
13
"So often we quit on the first failure. We must persistent long enough to achieve success."
12
"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!"
12
"You only know you can do something if you keep on doing it."
12
"Step by step a mountain is conquered."
11
"Perhaps you are just close to what you have been waiting for all along and ideas start formulating in your mind and advising you to "give up". Tell them "not me"."
11
"With persistent focus, commitment and enthusiasm, your dream will be reality."
11
"Persistence, perseverance, and continuous improvement are the ingredients for forming a successful person."
11
"Persistence is the fundamental ingredient of true success."
10
"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."
10
"Opportunity may come to the patient, but always comes to the persistent."
10
"Dare to keep moving when it is a must and dare to keep waiting when you have to, but note, you shall always keep waiting if you keep waiting and you shall always keep moving when you keep moving!"
10
"Sharpen your life always; even though it will come to an end like a pencil, we have to keep on writing."
10
"Everyday should be a working day on those difficult tasks. A little bit per day is the only way to make it through. Never feel it can't be done; it can be done with persistent actions, repeated input and consistent attendance!"
10
"Without discipline you would not go far in life."
10
"Talent does not automatically generate success. You can be talentless, but so long as you have fortitude then you will have success."
10
"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."
9
"If you do not have persistence then no amount of education, talent or genius can make up for it."
9
"The secret is not following the right path, it's following that right path to the end. Don't quit, my friend, until you've arrived."
9
"When you find yourself in the thickness of pursuing a goal or dream, stop only to rest. Momentum builds success."
9
"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."
9
"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!"
9
"To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it."
8
"Without continuous encouragement, we may give up."
8
"They say it's impossible.I refuse to believe it. The journey may be difficult and the desired end unlikely. My patience and commitment may be tested by something that won't happen overnight. It may be that I veer off the path or quit before reaching my goal, but that doesn't mean it is impossible."
8
"Get this; without a continuous struggle, your previous struggles will become a waste. Stay on and hold on until the success become evident."
8
"In order to have success we have to make an effort and this demands persistent, diligent hard work."
8
"Persistence is what keeps you hanging on when hanging on gets tough."
8
"I am a slow walker, but I never walk back."
8
bottom of page