Persistence Quotes - Page 28

• If you wish to be out front, then act as if you were behind.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

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• Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.

  John Heywood

  Inspirational, Hope, Heart

  John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.461

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• Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

  Bob Brown

  Inspirational, Success, Men

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

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• I want to remind you that success in life is based on hard slogging. There will be periods when discouragement is great and upsetting, and the antidote for this is calmness and fortitude and a modest yet firm belief in your competence. Be sure that your priorities are in order so that you can proceed in a logical manner, and be ever mindful that nothing will take the place of persistence.

  Walter Annenberg

  Inspirational, Order, Priorities

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• One has to remember that every failure can be a stepping stone to something better.

  Colonel Sanders

  Encouraging, Encouragement, Moving Forward

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• Yes! to this thought I hold with firm persistence;
  The last result of wisdom stamps it true;
  He only earns his freedom and existence
  Who daily conquers them anew.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wisdom, Freedom, Lasts

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1912). “Faust”

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• Truly, “thoughts are things,” and powerful things at that, when they are mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire for their translation into riches, or other material objects.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Powerful, Desire

  "The Prosperity Bible: The Greatest Writings of All Time on the Secrets to Wealth and Prosperity".

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• Riches don't respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence.

  Napoleon Hill

  Wish, Desire, Riches

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Wallace Wattles, Charles F. Haanel, Napoleon Hill “Think, Thank, Thunk - Self-Help Collection”, Lulu.com

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• The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

  Dale Carnegie

  Success, Will And Determination, Achievement

  Dale Carnegie, J. Oliver Crom, Michael A. Crom (2003). “The Sales Advantage: How to Get It, Keep It, and Sell More Than Ever”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• If you have a job without aggravations, you don't have a job.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Inspirational, Funny, Jobs

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• The major difference between the big shot and the little shot is the big shot is just a little shot who kept on shooting.

  Zig Ziglar

  Happiness, Inspiring, Success

  Zig Ziglar (2010). “See You at the Top”, p.89, Pelican Publishing

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• Fight one more round. When your arms are so tired that you can hardly lift your hands to come on guard, fight one more round. When your nose is bleeding and your eyes are black and you are so tired that you wish your opponent would crack you one on the jaw and put you to sleep, fight one more round - remembering that the man who always fights one more round is never whipped.

  James J. Corbett

  Motivational, Sports, Perseverance

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• Nothing worthwhile was ever accomplished without the will to start, the enthusiasm to continue and, regardless of temporary obstacles, the persistence to complete

  Waite Phillips

  New Beginnings, Enthusiasm, Obstacles

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• If you walk along the street you will encounter a number of scientific problems. Of these, about 80 per cent are insoluble, while 19½ per cent are trivial. There is then perhaps half a per cent where skill, persistence, courage, creativity and originality can make a difference. It is always the task of the academic to swim in that half a per cent, asking the questions through which some progress can be made.

  Hermann Bondi

  Creativity, Science, Skills

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• We don't have much in the way of a business strategy. Like no business plan. Which I say to torment all my friends who are VCs or MBAs. That's always entertaining. The deal is, it's a mixture of luck and persistence.

  Craig Newmark

  Mba, Luck, Mixtures

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• If a teacher told me to revise, I thought that meant my writing was a broken-down car that needed to go to the repair shop. I felt insulted. I didn't realize the teacher was saying, 'Make it shine. It's worth it.' Now I see revision as a beautiful word of hope. It's a new vision of something. It means you don't have to be perfect the first time. What a relief!

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Beautiful, Teacher, Writing

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• Difficulties will assail you only when you lack in concentration and persistence.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Concentration, Difficulty

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• We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence.

  Cornel West

  Inspirational, Relationship, Loyalty

  Cornel West (2009). “Brother West”, p.160, Hay House, Inc

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• Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted; it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in which instinct has learned nothing from experience.

  George Santayana

  Change, Children, Past

  George Santayana (2011). “The Life of Reason: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense”, p.172, MIT Press

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• I'm still waiting for perfection. In the meantime, I'll settle for persistence

  Bo Ryan

  Basketball, Nba, Perfection

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• I am worried by the Blessed Virgin’s messages to Lucy of Fatima. This persistence of Mary about the dangers which menace the Church is a Divine warning against the suicide of altering the Faith, in Her liturgy, Her theology and Her soulI hear all around me innovators who wish to dismantle the Sacred Chapel, destroy the universal flame of the true Faith of the Church, reject Her ornaments and make Her feel remorse for Her historical past.

  Pope Pius XII

  Suicide, Blessed, Past

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• Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate. The world doesn’t need any more gray. On the other hand, we can’t get enough color. Mediocrity is nobody’s goal and perfection shouldn’t be either. We’ll never be perfect. But remember these three P’s: Passion + Persistence = Possibility.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Passion, Hands, Color

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• He could totally be your boyfriend," [Angel] went on with annoying persistence. "You guys could get married. I could be like a junior bridesmaid. Total could be your flower dog.

  James Patterson

  Relationship, Dog, Flower

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• Individual and team discipline ultimately come down to practicing a small set of principles over a long period of time. Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory, but rather embracing common sense with uncommon levels of discipline and persistence. Said in yet another way, discipline is to an athlete what scales are to a musician. Mastering the scales is what allows the musician to perform music. Mastering the skills of self discipline is what enables a person to become an accomplished elite athlete.

  Mike Hebert

  Volleyball, Team, Athlete

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• So the important thing in a military operation is victory, not persistence.

  Sun Tzu

  Military, War, Victory

  Sun Tzu (2005). “The Art of War”, p.65, Shambhala Publications

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