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Quotes About Persistence

The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
~ Herbert Kaufman
If something stands between you and your success - move it. Never be denied.
~ Dwayne Johnson
If there is no dull and determined effort, there will be no brilliant achievement.
~ Xunzi
You need to make a commitment, and once you make it, then life will give you some answers.
~ Les Brown
Never despair, keep pushing on!
~ Thomas Lipton
Take a lesson from the mosquito. She never waits for an opening - she makes one.
~ Kirk Kirkpatrick
I like to use the hard times of the past to motivate me today.
~ Dwayne Johnson
Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.
~ B. C. Forbes
Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.
~ Saul Bellow
There is an expression among even the most advanced runners that getting your shoes on is the hardest part of any workout
~ Kathrine Switzer
Don't be told something is impossible. There's always a way.
~ Robert Rodriguez
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
~ Jonathan Winters
If we grow weary and give up, the goal remains for someone else to achieve.
~ Zig Ziglar
There Is No Failure. It's Only Un-Finished Success.
~ Raja Ravi Varma
Pain is temporary, glory...lasts forever!
~ George Best
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.
~ Robert H. Schuller
Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.
~ Julius Erving
Just keep going. Everybody gets better if they keep at it.
~ Ted Williams
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.
~ James Whitcomb Riley
If you're not messing up every now and then at practice, you're not doing anything above your ability to progress.
~ Crazy Legs
Wake up determined. Go to bed satisfied.
~ Dwayne Johnson
If you ever get a second chance in life for something, you've got to go all the way.
~ Lance Armstrong
I keep going till that pain says hello to me. I don't say goodbye until that pain says hello. That's a good set.
~ Greg Plitt
Nothing really worth having comes quickly and easily. If it did, I doubt that we would ever grow.
~ Eknath Easwaran