Quotations similar to PERSISTENCE - DETERMINATION , WILLPOWER
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90% of all those who fail are not actually defeated. They simply quit. - Paul J Meyer
A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success. - Elbert Hubbard
A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits. - Richard Nixon
All you need is a good idea and the tenacity to make it happen! - Unknown
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there. - Josh Billings
Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years. - Bob Brown
Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting. - Christopher Morley
Constant dripping hollows out a stone. - Lucretius
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential. - Winston Churchill
Defeat is simply a signal to press onward. - Helen Keller
Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal. - Goethe
Don't be discouraged. It's often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock. - Unknown
Don't stop trying, learning, fighting, experimenting, doing, until the miracle happens. - Kim Kiyosaki
Energy and persistence conquer all things. - Benjamin Franklin
Enough shovels of earth, a mountain. Enough pails of water, a river. - Chinese Proverb
Even the woodpeckers owe their success to the fact that they use their heads and keep pecking away until they finish the job they start. - Coleman Cox
Every oak tree started out as a nut who stood his ground. - Unknown
Excellence is achieved through the persistence of purpose. - Anthony Steinberg
Failure is the path of least persistence. - George M Van Valkenburg, Jr
Fall down seven times, stand up eight. - Japanese proverb
Genius, a power that dazzles humans, is oft but perseverance in disguise. - H W Austin
Godlike genius? Godlike nothing - sticking to it is the genius. - Thomas Edison
Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance. - Dr Samuel Johnson
I hated every minute of training, but I said, don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion. - Muhammad Ali
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that don't work. - Thomas Edison
I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000-step process. - Thomas Edison
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. - Theodore Roosevelt
If at first you don't succeed, you're running about average. - M H Alderson
If you never quit, you’re never beaten. - Ted Turner
If you're going through hell, keep going. - Winston Churchill
In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins - not through strength, but through persistence. - Buddha
In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm. In the real world all rests on perseverance. - Goethe
It takes twenty years to become an overnight success. - Eddie Cantor
It’s always too soon to quit. - Norman Vincent Peale
It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer. - Albert Einstein
Let me tell you a secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity. - Louis Pasteur
Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before. - Jacob A Riis
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. - Thomas Edison
My persistence is the measure of the belief I have in myself. - Walt Disney
My success is based on persistence, not luck. - Estee Lauder
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. - Harriet Stowe
Never, never, never, never give up. - Winston Churchill
One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat. - Napoleon Hill
Other people and things can stop you temporarily. You're the only one who can do it permanently. - Zig Ziglar
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is to always try, just one more time. - Thomas Edison
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another. - Walter Elliott
Stubbornly persist, and you will find that the limits of your stubbornness go well beyond the stubbornness of your limits. - Robert Brault
The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win. - Roger Bannister
The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. - Thomas Edison
The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching. - Dennis Green
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. - Unknown
There is no failure except in no longer trying. - Elbert Hubbard
To keep the lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it. - Mother Teresa
Tough times never last. Tough people do. - Robert Schuller
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything. - W Clement Stone
Victory belongs to the most persevering. - Napoleon Bonaparte
We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough. - Helen Keller
We conquer by continuing. - George Matheson
When the world says, "Give up," Hope whispers, "Try it one more time.” - Unknown
When you get into a tight place and it seems that you can't go on, hold on - for that's just the place and the time that the tide will turn. - Harriet Beecher Stowe
When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength. - Gandhi
Winners never quit and quitters never win. - Vince Lombardi
With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable. - Thomas Foxwell Buxton
