Persistence Quotes - Page 31

• Have the confidence to fail. Persistence is key.

  Jessica Walsh

  Keys, Failing

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• No one ever achieved a goal by being interested in its achievement. One must be committed. In fact, in studying the source of people's success, I've found that persistence overshadows even talent as the most valued and effective resource in creating and shaping the quality of life. Most people give up a maddening five feet from their goal!

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Giving Up, Feet

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.334, Simon and Schuster

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• Every one's got it in him, if he'll only make up his mind and stick at it. None of us is born with a stop-valve on his powers or with a set limit to his capacities, There's no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us.

  Charles M. Schwab

  Mind, Expansion, Limits

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• Persistence may not solve everything - at least in our lifetime - but it is truer to the meaning of life for us to wait for another plowing, another seeding, another harvest, then not.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Perseverance, Waiting, Meaning Of Life

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• There are so many different kinds of writing and so many ways to work that the only rule is this: do what works. Almost everything has been tried and found to succeed for somebody. The methods, even the ideas of successful writers contradict each other in a most heartening way, and the only element I find common to all successful writers is persistence-an overwhelming determination to succeed.

  Sophy Burnham

  Determination, Writing, Successful

  Sophy Burnham (2011). “For Writers Only: Inspiring Thoughts on the Exquisite Pain and Heady Joy of the Writing Life from Its Great Practitioners”, p.51, Penguin

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• Success is the process of having a wonderful experience going for, getting, and having what you want.

  Michael Neill

  Gratitude, Want, Wonderful

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• We shall build on.
  On through the cynic

  Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy

  Cynic

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• A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.

  Harvey Mackay

  Motivational, Dream, Goal

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• One mistake does not have to rule a person's entire life.

  Joyce Meyer

  Mistake, Doe, Persons

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• Lucky is where skill meets persistence.

  Robin Sharma

  Success, Skills, Lucky

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from May 25, 2011

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• Persistence is a characteristic to which success invariably surrenders.

  Catherine Ponder

  Surrender, Characteristics

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• The lifeblood of Christianity is not our persistence in moving toward God but God's persistence in moving toward us.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Moving, Christianity

  Twitter post from Sep 10, 2012

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• For a long time I had not approached the forbidden fruit called happiness, but it was now tempting me with a melancholy persistence. I felt as though Sonoko were an abyss above which I stood poised.

  Yukio Mishima

  Long, Fruit, Melancholy

  Yukio Mishima (1958). “Confessions of a Mask”, p.194, New Directions Publishing

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• I don’t think it’s quite that simple. Some people never observe anything, Life just happens to them. They get by on little more than a kind of dumb persistence, and they resist with anger and resentment anything that might lift them out of that false serenity.

  Frank Herbert

  Simple, Thinking, People

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.139, Penguin

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• It's easy .... it's a mind that is open to everything, yet attaches to nothing ... it's called freedom that's what it is, plain and simple!

  Gary Busey

  Acceptance, Simple, Mind

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• What is important is what inspires persistence and determination- in other words what you care about.

  David Maister

  Inspiring, Determination, Inspire

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• When we say that the persistence of competition is ensured by fate, we mean that individual freedom is so guaranteed. The one thing to which fate binds us is liberty.

  John Bates Clark

  Mean, Fate, Competition

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• Rugby may have many problems, but the gravest is undoubtedly that of the persistence of summer.

  Chris Laidlaw

  Summer, May, Rugby

  Chris Laidlaw (1973). “Mud in Your Eye: A Worm's Eye View of the Changing World of Rugby”

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• The secret to life is to put yourself in the right lighting. For some, it's a Broadway spotlight; for others, a lamplit desk. Use your natural powers -- of persistence, concentration, and insight -- to do work you love and work that matters. Solve problems. make art, think deeply.

  Susan Cain

  Art, Thinking, Work You Love

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.264, Broadway Books

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• Constant repetition of tongue-twisters was like lifting weights for me, but patience and persistence have paid off.

  Nicholas Brendon

  Patience, Lifting Weights, Tongue

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• It’s easier to have courage and trust the process when you feel you’re making headway. Mastery is not persistence when you see a light at the end of the tunnel. True mastery is persistence when you don’t yet see the light.

  James Arthur Ray

  Tunnels, Light, Mastery

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• "Softly, softly, catchee monkey," is the West African rendering of a very valuable precept. An awful lot of men fail through lack of patient persistence.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Men, Monkeys, Awful

  Robert Baden-Powell (2013). “Playing the Game: A Baden-Powell Compendium”, p.271, Pan Macmillan

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• What is the use of merely listening to lectures? The real thing is practice.

  Ramakrishna

  Real, Practice, Listening

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• Eventually, if it's on your mind, you stumble on it. You need a certain amount of luck and persistence.

  Jules Feiffer

  Luck, Mind, Needs

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. July 28, 2008.

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• You have to keep plugging away. We are all growing. There is no shortcut. You have to put time into it to build an audience.

  John Gruber

  Growing, Shortcuts, Audience

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