Persistence Quotes - Page 11

• When life takes the wind out of your sails, it is to test you at the oars.

  Robert Breault

  Inspirational, Life, Moving On

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• Faith, sympathy - fiery faith and fiery sympathy! Life is nothing, death is nothing, hunger nothing, cold nothing. Glory unto the Lord - march on, the Lord is our General. Do not look back to see who falls - forward - onward! Thus and thus we shall go on, brethren. One falls, and another takes up the work

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Life, Moving On

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1916, Manonmani Publishers

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• As long as you've done your best, making mistakes doesn't matter. You and I are human; we will mess up. What counts is learning from your mistakes and getting back up when life has knocked you down.

  Shawn Johnson

  Perseverance, Mistake, Gymnastics

  Shawn Johnson (2012). “Winning Balance: What I’ve Learned So Far about Love, Faith, and Living Your Dreams”, p.62, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• When you've got something to prove, there's nothing greater than a challenge.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Inspirational, Courage, Perseverance

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• You must be really bad, because it is a puzzle. Creating anything is hard. It’s a cliché thing to say, but every time you start a job, you just don’t know anything. I mean, I can break something down, but ultimately I don’t know anything when I start work on a new movie. You start stabbing out, and you make a mistake, and it’s not right, and then you try again and again. The key is you have to commit. And that’s hard because you have to find what it is you are committing to.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Inspirational, Movie, Moving On

  "A Higher Calling" by Lynn Hirschberg, www.nytimes.com. December 19, 2008.

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

  Suheir Hammad

  Inspirational, Death, Dance

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• If I hadn't had the talent, the networks wouldn't have televised my fights. No one has made me; I made myself. I paid my dues

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Success, Sports, Perseverance

  FaceBook post by SUGAR RAY LEONARD from Jul 19, 2013

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• Before the start of the '76 Olympics, I'd had 160 amateur fights. I won 155 and lost five

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Success, Sports, Perseverance

  FaceBook post by SUGAR RAY LEONARD from Oct 23, 2013

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• Business is always a struggle. There are always obstacles and competitors. There is never an open road, except the wide road that leads to failure. Every great success has always been achieved by fight. Every winner has scars.The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will-power to develop themselves. So choose to be among the few today.

  Chris Kirubi

  Moving On, Success, Perseverance

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• And your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become criticism. Ask it, whenever it wants to spoil something for you, why something is ugly, demand proofs from it, test it, and you will find it perhaps bewildered and embarrassed, perhaps also protesting. But don't give in, insist on arguments, and act in this way, attentive and persistent, every single time, and the day will come when, instead of being a destroyer, it will become one of your best workers-perhaps the most intelligent of all the ones that are building your life.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Life, Time, Giving Up

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• Well, in regards to surfing, I’ve learned that there is always another wave coming. Translated that means there is always tomorrow. No matter how badly you get caught inside, if you can just hang in there and keep paddling, the set is going to pass and there will be a lull afterwards. So don’t give up, just take your pounding, wait until the set passes, then make your move.

  Gerry Lopez

  Inspirational, Positive, Moving On

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• A failure is like fertilizer; it stinks to be sure, but it makes things grow faster in the future.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Funny, Success

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• But hope has an astonishing resilience and strength. Its very persistence in our hearts indicates that it is not a tonic for wishful thinkers but the ground on which realists stand.

  Kathleen Norris

  Heart, Resilience, Realist

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• Sheer persistence is the difference between success and failure.

  Donald Trump

  Motivational, Success, Life Lesson

  Donald J. Trump, Tony Schwartz (2009). “Trump: The Art of the Deal”, p.147, Ballantine Books

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• The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Determination

  Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

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• 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

  Motivational, Perseverance, Determination

  Samuel Johnson (1834). “The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia: A Tale”, p.14

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• Being gifted intellectually is only a small part of the equation of success. Concentrate on the factors you have control over: persistence, self-discipline, confidence. Far more failures are due to lack of will than lack of ability.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Softball, Sports, Motivation

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• Vigilance in watching opportunity, tact and daring in seizing upon opportunity, force and persistence in crowding opportunity to its utmost of possible achievement - these are the martial virtues which must command success

  Austin Phelps

  Inspirational, Opportunity, Goal

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• Implement your plans with courage and persistence. Have complete faith in your ability to succeed and never, ever give up.

  Brian Tracy

  Success, Giving Up, Succeed

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• Success in any endeavor does not happen by accident. Rather, it’s the result of deliberate decisions, conscious effort, and immense persistence...all directed at specific goals.

  Gary Ryan

  Goal, Effort, Decision

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• If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.

  Isaac Asimov

  Inspirational, Rejection, Talent

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• The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball

  Vince Lombardi (2012). “What it Takes to be Number One”, p.70, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Faith in the continuance and enhancement of the intrinsic values--faith in truth, in beauty, in friendship, in love and harmony of life--in short, faith in reason and the worth of spiritual life--such faith is only another name for faith in the persistence of spiritual individuality. For, I repeat, these values are real only as functions of personal experience and deed. To have faith in the permanence of intrinsic values is to assume the enduring reality of selves who know truth, feel beauty, who love and win spiritual harmony.

  Joseph Alexander Leighton

  Spiritual, Real, Winning

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• Continued persistence overcomes almost all resistance.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Overcoming, Resistance

  FaceBook post by Mark Victor Hansen from Aug 03, 2010

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• Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

  Joyce Brothers

  Positive, Success, Determination

  "The Pocket Philosopher/ Psychologist" by Mark J. Merten, (p. 87), 2004.

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