Determination And Persistence Quotes

If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.

Michael Jordan

Motivational, Basketball, Running

Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”

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Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.

Denis Waitley

Determination, Wrestling, Giving

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History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

B. C. Forbes

Inspirational, Perseverance, Courage

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A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

Elbert Hubbard

Inspirational, Success, Perseverance

Elbert Hubbard (2005). “Loyalty in Business: One and Twenty Other Good Things”, p.29, Cosimo, Inc.

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Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.

Gail Devers

Motivational, Faith, Sports

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

Leonardo da Vinci

Inspirational, Life, Perseverance

Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.250, GENERAL PRESS

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We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.

Jesse Owens

Inspirational, Motivational, Running

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.

Marie Curie

Inspirational, Strength, Confidence

"Madame Curie: A Biography". Book by Eve Curie Labouisse translated by Vincent Sheean, 1937.

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Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

Og Mandino

Inspirational, Motivational, Success

Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World”, p.25, Bantam

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A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

Colin Powell

Motivational, Dream, Determination

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The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Inspirational, Change, Positive

Quoted in Providence Journal-Bulletin, 8 June 1994

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Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.

James Whitcomb Riley

Motivational, Determination, Persistence

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I ran and ran and ran every day, and I acquired this sense of determination, this sense of spirit that I would never, never give up, no matter what else happened.

Wilma Rudolph

Motivational, Determination, Giving Up

Wilma Rudolph (1977). “Wilma”

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Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Christopher Morley

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.

Will Rogers

Inspirational, Funny, Success

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The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Inspirational, Success, Perseverance

'The Ladder of Saint Augustine' (1850)

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If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

Dale Carnegie

Perseverance, Determination, Jobs

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If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

Michael Jordan

Inspirational, Basketball, Wisdom

Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”

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Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

Michael Jordan

Motivational, Basketball, Sports

Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”

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I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

Stephen Leacock

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.91, University of Toronto Press

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It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Motivational, Leadership, Perseverance

Address at Oglethorpe University, 22 May (1932)

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Nelson Mandela said: 'It always seems impossible until it's done.' Peace is possible.

John Bonifaz

Motivational, Perseverance, War

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Decide carefully, exactly what you want in life, then work like mad to make sure you get it!

Hector Crawford

Motivational, Positive, Perseverance

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Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

Jacob August Riis

Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

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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.

Plutarch

Perseverance, Taken, Persistence

Plutarch (2015). “Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography”, p.761, 谷月社

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