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Quotes About Persistence

In France it was Joan of Arc; in the Crimea it was Florence Nightingale; in the deep south there was Rosa Parks; in India there was Mother Teresa and in Florida there was Katherine Harris.
~ Larry Gatlin
John McCain responded to critics who say he's too old for a sixth term by saying that his mother is 103 years old and doing well. The crazy thing is that even she is somehow younger than John McCain.
~ Jimmy Fallon
I'm relentless. My mother says I could sell ice to the Eskimos.
~ Sharon Stone
The best lesson that I've learned from my mother is that she just never accepted no for an answer and I think that's something that has stayed with me.
~ Liya Kebede
I'm just proud that I created something that helped me pay my bills because I was so flat broke. I was borrowing money from my mother to stay afloat, and that was kind of uncomfortable.
~ Marc Cherry
The best piece of advice that my mother gave me is to never have a plan B. She told me to stick to plan A because if you have a plan B you will inevitably fall back on it.
~ Zoe Tapper
Cindy Sheehan is one tough mother. And nothing you say or anyone else is gonna slow her down.
~ Phil Donahue
You killed more people than anybody in history." "Be the best at whatever you do, that's what my mother always told me.
~ Orson Scott Card
Against the rules. She's on it, like a hound on a fox.'Her name is Annie.
~ Ali Land, Good Me, Bad Me
You could be the world's best garbage man, the world's best model; it don't matter what you do if you're the best.
~ Muhammad Ali
Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there.
~ Zig Ziglar
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the aeroplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
~ Henry Ford
Knowing Is Not Enough; We Must Apply. Wishing Is Not Enough; We Must Do.
~ Johann von Goethe
A winner is a dreamer who never gives up
~ Nelson Mandela
Just do the best you can. No one can do more than that.
~ John Wooden
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability to overcome.
~ Maya Angelou
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...
~ Henry David Thoreau
Physical fitness can neither be acquired by wishful thinking nor by outright purchase.
~ Joseph Pilates
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Don't stop when you're tired; stop when you're done.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.
~ Mark Twain
I will come again & conquer you because as a mountain you can't grow, but as a human, I can
~ Edmund Hillary
Good things don't come to those who wait. They come to those who agitate!
~ Julian Bond
Opportunities Don't Come Knocking On The Door. They Present Themselves When You Knock The Door Down!
~ Greg Plitt