Persistence Quotes

Courage is the first of human qualities, because it is the quality that guarantees all the others. - Winston Churchill

Inspiration comes when you stick your elbows on the table, your bottom on the chair and you start sweating. Choose a theme, an idea, and squeeze your brain until it hurts. That's called inspiration.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

In conservation, the motto should always be 'never say die'.

Gerald Durrell

Love, endure, persist... Everything will return to you, innocent fool!

Raheel Farooq

People don't just live one life. They keep coming back until they get it right.

C.R. Strahan

She knew she could answer it. She knew how to put one foot in front of the other even when every step hurt. And she knew there was pain in the journey, but there was also great beauty. She’d seen it standing on rooftops and in green eyes and in the smallest, ugliest rock. She would find the answer.

Veronica Rossi

To shine and outshine the shining stars, to take your abilities to the greatest height, to sit on top of the world, you must fortify yourself with persistence, the determination and willingness to stay in the same direction over a long period of time whatever the cost might be.

Ogwo David Emenike

As you think and act, so your world becomes.

T. Scott McLeod

I will not be defined by the marks left on me by the world, but by the mark I leave on the world (referring to the facial scars he still carries from his successful 1991 battle against cancer, which caused him to be turned down for a customer service job because he was "too ugly").

James Houston Turner

Most of Csongor's time in T'Rain had been spent blundering about in a state of hapless newbie confusion. Only his long experience as a system administrator, struggling with Byzantine software installations, had prevented hum from plummeting into despair and simply giving up. Not that any of the sysadmin's knowledge and skills were applicable here. The psychological stance was the thing: the implicit faith, a little naive and a little cocky, that by banging his head against the problem for long enough he'd be able to break through in the end.

Neal Stephenson

Temporary setbacks are overshadowed by persistence.

Quentin L. Cook

I have never seen a heavyweight champion apologize for a knockout

Jock J. Davis

Persistence is a necessary ingredient for success.

Debasish Mridha

The art of love is largely the art of persistence.

Albert Ellis

Persistence is often a detective's greatest ally.

Lara Adrian

Inspiring qualities make some people to feel a little uneasy.

Auliq-Ice

... if they are persistent enough, even tiny drops of water, over time, can change the rock forever. And it will never change back." - Zoe

Veronica Roth

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

Max Beerbohm

You will never know what you can accomplish until you really put in persistent effort and never giving up.

Lailah Gifty Akita

People stagger, but they pick up a tattered thread and wind it back onto a spool.

Donia Bijan

Your persistent problems are because of your response to common misfortune.

Bryant McGill

As the tides of life rise and fall, life is constant, like the waves crashing upon the shore. Persistence is the key in high and low times…

James A. Murphy

She and me? We the same in some fings. We live. The others, those orphan kids, they dead. Because she and me, we want to live and we do anyfing to make that happen. That's the difference between us and the others.

Melina Marchetta

In algorithms, as in life, persistence usually pays off.

Steven S. Skiena

start something, with a knowledge to end it.

Krishna Sagar

We have begun a fight that it may be will take many a generation to complete...but you know that men are not put into this world to go the path of ease; they are put into this world to go the path of pain and struggle...We have given our lives to the enterprise, and that is richer and the moral is greater.

Woodrow Wilson

Never underestimate the hidden power of one very determined person. There is nothing more powerful than determination and persistence.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

It's a funny word, persistence. It means not giving up, but it also means just passing on through time.

Ahmir Questlove Thompson

Either you make things happen or you quit.

Vivian Weissman

Believing in yourself truly means trusting your capability to think, learn, do, and deliver better results. In that case, it doesn’t matter where you’re starting from. As you keep going, you’re developing into a better person.

SuccessCoach Nilesh

For success, don't take the path of least resistance. Take the path of most persistence.

Michele Jennae

Yes, this man had the persistence of an insect.

Patrick Modiano

Be persistent like a mosquito, at the end you will get your bite

Bangambiki Habyarimana

Patient is a persistent act.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Love becomes imprudent only when it is impatient to enjoy; but when it is a matter of procuring the return of a happiness to which a baleful combination of circumstances has raised impediments, love sees and foresees all that the most subtle perspicacity can discover.

Giacomo Casanova

The source of all things, the luminescence, has more forms than heaven's stars, sure. And one good thought is all it takes to make it shine. But a single mistake can burn down a forest in your heart, hiding all the stars, in all the skies. And while a mistake's till burning, ruined love or lost faith can make you think you're done, and you can't go on. But it's not true. It's never true. No matter what you do, no matter where you're lost, the luminescence never leaves you. Any good thing that dies inside can rise again, if you want it hard enough. The heart doesn't know how to quit, because it doesn't know how to lie. You lift your eyes from the page, fall into the smile of a perfect stranger, and the searching starts all over again. It's not what it was. It's always different. It's always something else. But the new forest that grows back in a scarred heart is sometimes wilder and stronger than it was before the fire. And if you stay in there, in that shine within yourself, that new place of light, forgiving everything and never giving up, sooner or later you'll always find yourself right back there where love and beauty made the world: at the beginning. The beginning. The beginning.

Gregory David Roberts

The author describes the adoption process in which he and his wife participated as "a paperwork pregnancy".

David Platt

Inspiration does not linger in one place over time, therefore human effort shouldn't be scaled on earlier attempt.

Unarine Ramaru

If you never persisted, you will never succeed.

Vann Chow

Persistence is a writer's best friend disguised as a bully.

A.M. McKnight

Persistence Pays...Period.

Sotero M Lopez II

Persistence is what keeps you hanging on when hanging on gets tough.

Debasish Mridha

Persistence to fight for what you want is what separates those who win and those who don't.

Tony Curl

The people you need to make your goals and visions happen aren’t just going to call you or walk up to you and hand you an opportunity. You have to go to them. And you must have a plan for how you will approach them.

La La Anthony

Persistence is victory. Just . . . keep . . . going. It doesn’t matter if things aren’t going the way you thought they would or if you’re facing a disappointment. The only defeat is in quitting. If you keep going, you’re winning.

Mara Schiavocampo

My father told me never to take my foot off a ladder to kick at someone who was kicking at me. When I did that, I would no longer be climbing. While they are kicking, my father told me, I should keep stepping. They can kick only one time. If I continued to climb, they would be left behind. In trying to hurt me, to impede my progress, they would get left behind because they allowed themselves to get sidetracked from their agenda.

Steve Harvey

There are two ways to do great mathematics. The first is to be smarter than everybody else. The second way is to be stupider than everybody else — but persistent.

Raoul Bott

We ain't giving up," I said. "We done gone this far.

Ernest J. Gaines

For while it is of no particular importance how many things you start in life, it is of great importance how many you finish!

Josephine Daskam Bacon

Your voice is strongest when you remain firm, when you are not moved by your circumstance. For we must not permit others to define who we are or what we stand for.

Lorna Jackie Wilson

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is, that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

Henry Ward Beecher

Persistence is the key to solving most mysteries.

Christopher Pike

You meet dozens of people who tell you you can't do it. Surround yourself with the people who believe you will do it. Seek out and spend time with those rare people who tell you, no BS, why you haven't done it yet, what it takes to do it, and how they could help you do it. Note how this advice works whether 'it' is robbing a bank, opening a gallery, or writing a bestseller. "It" is up to you. But you can't do it alone.

Heather Grace Stewart

As long as there’s breath in You - PERSIST!

Bernard Kelvin Clive

Slight persistent effort can move you successfully forward in anything you do.

Kelli Wilson

I took off my sweatshirt and dropped it on the grass and set off around the track. As soon as I started running, the world changed. The bodies spread out across the green of the football field were parts of a scene remembered, not one real at this moment. The secret of effort is to keep on, I told myself. Not for the world would I have stopped then, and yet nothing- not even if I had been turned handsome as a reward for finishing- could have made up for the curious pain of the effort.

Harold Brodkey

The HillI have come this far on my own legs,missing the bus, missing taxis,climbing always. One foot in front of the other,that is the way I do it.It does not bother me, the way the hill goes on.Grass beside the road, a tree rattlingits black leaves. So what?The longer I walk, the farther I am from everything.One foot in front of the other. The hours pass.One foot in front of the other. The years pass.The colors of arrival fade.That is the way I do it.

Mark Strand

He taught me how small, day-by-day decisions add up to the great consequences and that every thoughtful and educated decision I made about my life would eventually lead me to a clear and more satisfying understanding of my calling.

Eric Motley

I promise permanence. I promise persistence. I promise that falling in love was just the beginning for us.

Liz Newman

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