Here’s a collection of my favorite quotes on Persistence.
“A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence.” – Jim Watkins
“There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.” – Sophie Swetchine
“Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan Press On! has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.” ― Calvin Coolidge
“Energy and persistence conquer all things.” – Benjamin Franklin
“Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.” – Napoleon Hill
“Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.” – Bill Bradley
“The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.” ― Thomas A. Edison
“Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.” – John D. Rockefeller
“To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will. ‘I will drink the ocean,’ says the persevering soul; ‘at my will mountains will crumble up.’ Have that sort of energy, that sort of will; work hard, and you will reach the goal.” – Swami Vivekananda
“Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.” – John Quincy Adams
“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” – Robert Collier
“Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.” – Orison Swett Marden
“The people who get what they’re after are very often the ones who just stick around long enough.” ― Austin Kleon
“Let me tell you the secret that has led to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.” – Louis Pasteur
“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” – Albert Einstein
“Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.” – Newt Gingrich
“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
“If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.” – Thomas Carlyle
“We are made to persist. That’s how we find out who we are.” ― Tobias Wolff
“Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.” ― James A. Michener
“If you are going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius
“When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you couldn’t hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that’s just the place and time that the tide’ll turn.” – Harriet Beecher Stowe
“When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.” – Walter Elliott
“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.” – Maya Angelou
“Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.” – Benjamin Disraeli
“A failure is not always a mistake. It may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.” – B. F. Skinner
“Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.” – Julie Andrews
“Champions keep playing until they get it right.” – Billie Jean King
“A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.” – Elbert Hubbard
“Saints are sinners who kept on going.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
“You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you’re working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist.” ― Isaac Asimov
“Talent is nothing without persistence.” – Dean Crawford
“With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.” – Thomas Foxwell Buxton
“No great achievement is possible without persistent work.” – Bertrand Russell
“If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.” – Samuel Johnson
“This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.” – Pablo Picasso
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