Quotes About Persistence

You have to do the work. You have to make the opportunity. It doesn't find you, you find it.

When you're not practicing, someone somewhere is. And when the two of you meet, assuming roughly equal ability, the other person will win.

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. Every job is a self portrait of the person who did it ... Autograph your work with excellence.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting!

To be successful, all you have to do is work half-days; you can work the first twelve hours or the second twelve hours.

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.

In every position that I've been in, there have been naysayers who don't believe I'm qualified or who don't believe I can do the work. And I feel a special responsibility to prove them wrong.

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand

The elevator to success is out of order, but the stairs are always open.

I have always believed that if you want to achieve anything special in life you have to work, work, and then work some more.

One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.

Practice makes perfect. After a long time of practicing, our work will become natural, skillfull, swift, and steady.

Never let anyone in life tell you that you can't have something that you are willing to work for.

Opportunity usually shows up in overalls and looking like work.

The minute we think we went hard, go harder. We gotta work.

As educators we need to understand that there is no finish line in our work.

To the young: Work, work, work, and then work some more!

You get up early in the morning and you work all day. That's the only secret.

I didn't just show up for work, as has sometimes been said. I also showed up to work.

It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions.

Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there.

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.

Gradualness, gradualness, and gradualness. From the very beginning of your work, school yourself to severe gradualness in the accumulation of knowledge.

I'm OK with being the Old Spice Guy because before I was the Old Spice Guy I was the guy looking for work on his couch.