Persistence Quotes - Page 15

• If at first you don't succeed, try hard work.

  William Feather

  Success, Perseverance, Hard Work

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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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• If at first you don't succeed, try management.

  Stephen Hawking

  Success, Perseverance, Life Sucks

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• I've never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.

  Charles Kettering

  Commitment, Sitting Down, Stumbling

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• You've done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination.

  Ralph Marston

  Positive, Success, Determination

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• The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs... one step at a time.

  Joe Girard

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  Joe Girard, Robert Casemore (1979). “How to Sell Yourself”, Simon & Schuster

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• Once a person has taken their life, in the inner realms, the suicide will repeat automatically the feelings of despair and fear which preceded his self murder, and go through the act and the death struggle time after time with ghastly persistence... They remain conscious - often entangled in the final scene of the earth life for a very long time, unaware that they have lost the physical body.

  Annie Besant

  Suicide, Struggle, Taken

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• Failure is often the line of least persistence.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Motivational, Failure

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• Your persistence is, in fact, the true measure of your belief in yourself and your ability to succeed. Each time that you persist in the face of adversity and disappointment, you build the habit of persistence.

  Brian Tracy

  Perseverance, Disappointment, Adversity

  Brian Tracy (2009). “Flight Plan: The Real Secret of Success”, p.136, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• Persistence is the most powerful force on earth, it can move mountains.

  Albert Einstein

  Powerful, Moving, Mountain

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• Persistence and discipline. Without those two, you have nothing, no matter how talented you are.

  Alrick Brown

  Discipline

  Source: aalbc.com

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• Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Perseverance, Persevere, Persist

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• It looks like the thing that separates out the capable students from the really successful ones is not so much their knowledge...but their persistence at something.

  Eric Schmidt

  Successful, Looks, Students

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• I don't believe in luck. ... It's persistence, hard work, and not forgetting your dream.

  Janet Jackson

  Dream, Believe, Hard Work

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• 90% of all those who fail are not actually defeated. They simply quit.

  Paul J. Meyer

  Quitting, Failing, Defeated

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• Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Giving Up, Hard Work, Two

  "Outliers". Book by Malcolm Gladwell, November 18, 2008.

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• If your plan isn't working, adjust your plan. Never give up.

  Matt Martin

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Giving Up

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• Most people with a big idea, great talent and/or something to say don't get lucky at first. Or second. Or even third. It's so easy to conclude that if you're not lucky, you're not good. So persistence becomes an essential element of good, because without persistence, you never get a chance to get lucky.

  Seth Godin

  Encouraging, Ideas, People

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• I'm proof that great things can happen to ordinary people if they work hard and never give up.

  Orel Hershiser

  Sports, Perseverance, Giving Up

  Orel Hershiser (1990). “Out of the Blue”, Jove Books

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• Making the absolute best of ourselves is not an easy task. It is a pleasurable pursuit...but it requires patience, persistence, and perseverance.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Perseverance, Tasks, Easy

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• Franklin's illness...gave him strength and courage he had not had before. He had to think out the fundamentals of living and learn the greatest of all lessons - infinite patience and never ending persistence.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Thinking, Fundamentals, Lessons

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• For all of us today, the battle is in our hands. The road ahead is not altogether a smooth one. There are no broad highways to lead us easily and inevitably to quick solutions. We must keep going.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Educational, Hands, Battle

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.145, Beacon Press

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• Unless God has raised you up for this very thing, you will be worn out by the opposition of men and devils. But if God be for you, who can be against you? Are all of them together stronger than God? O be not weary of well doing!

  John Wesley

  Men, Devil, Together

  John Wesley (1980). “John Wesley”, p.86, Oxford University Press

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• Lions don't have to roar. There is power in silence, confidence, and persistence. Those who work don't talk, and those who talk don't work. Handle your business. Measure your efforts by results. Focus your time, energy, and activity on mastering and executing a plan.

  Les Brown

  Silence, Focus, Effort

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• Smile, breathe and go slowly.

  Nhat Hanh

  Inspirational, Life, Positivity

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