Quotes About Persistence

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

Asking in faith requires honesty, effort, commitment, and persistence.

While persistence offers no guarantees, it does give 'luck' a chance to operate.

For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency. If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic. People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness. People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware. Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world. Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional. The art of love is largely the art of persistence.

Average people and the average community can change the world. You can do it just based on common sense, determination, persistence and patience.

The single most important route of success is persistence - never, ever give up!

In 1989, I was on Tiananmen Square with the students, living in their makeshift tents and joining their jubilant singing of the Internationale. In the two decades since, each time that I have gone back, visions from those days seem to return with increasing persistence.

The challenge of statesmanship is to have the vision to dream of a better, safer world and the courage, persistence, and patience to turn that dream into reality.

The majority of people are ready to throw their aims and purposes overboard, and give up at the first sign of opposition or misfortune. A few carry on DESPITE all opposition, until they attain their goal. These few are the Fords, Carnegies, Rockefellers, and Edisons. There may be no heroic connotation to the word persistence, but the quality is to the character of man what carbon is to steel.

The truth of the matter is that the people who succeed in the arts most often are the people who get up again after getting knocked down. Persistence is critical.

To be an entrepreneur, it just takes a lot of persistence, dedication, and drive. No matter what happens, you have to be wiling to get back up and try again.

Passion and persistence are what matter. Dreams are achievable and you can make your fantasy come true, but there are no shortcuts. Nothing happens without hard work.

The key to success is to not take rejection personally, to know that having faith counts the most when we feel scared the most, that a delay is not a denial and that persistence above all else will prove to be a powerful ally. Oh - and most importantly - do what you LOVE.

The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.

Tim Price continues to explore and develop his deeply personal approach to music. Through the years his persistence, determination and passion has enabled him to create a stellar reputation as a multiple woodwind master, composer, producer, author and last but not least educator. Tim is one of the best musicians active today and I'm happy to say he's my friend.

One of the tests that I frequently use in an interaction is I push on the idea and what I'm looking for is both flexibility & persistence.

Successful trout fishing isn't a matter of brute force or even persistence, but something more like infiltration.

Grit is not just simple elbow-grease term for rugged persistence. It is an often invisible display of endurance that lets you stay in an uncomfortable place, work hard to improve upon a given interest, and do it again and again.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

Passion + Persistence = Possibility

To make a great dream come true, the first requirement is a great capacity to dream; the second is persistence.

O may I join the choir invisible of those immortal dead who live again in minds made better by their presence; live in pulses stirred to generosity, in deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn for miserable aims that end with self, in thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, and with their mild persistence urge men's search to vaster issues.

Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence.

Whatever you accomplish in a lifetime will be in direct proportion to the intensity and persistence of your faith

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

The great ones in life are not those who are handed silver spoons. Their excellence comes from digging into the raw ore of their own character, through hard work, persistence and faith turning whatever they touch into gold.

Never has man reached his destination by persistence in deviation from the straight path.

Persistence prevails, like a stream that is temporarily blocked by boulders and then collects force enough to overflow onward.

A man without persistence will never make a good shaman or a good physician.

I seek the truth...it is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance that does harm.

Persistence is the great measure of individual human character.

God is not bothered by your persistence. Keep asking.