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Quotes About Persistence

Most of us who aspire to be tops in our fields don't really consider the amount of work required to stay tops.
~ Althea Gibson
The guys who stick around are the smartest guys and the guys who are the most self-driven. You have to have drive. The coaches can only take you so far. You have to want to learn and work.
~ Aaron Rodgers
Work at your craft, write daily, and follow your dreams because dreams do come true.
~ Christopher Paul Curtis
I love the mentality that when push comes to shove, simply work harder and the results will come.
~ Greg Plitt
The key to hitting is just plain working at it. Work, that's the real secret.
~ Ted Williams
To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.
~ Anna Pavlova
Long shots do come in and hard work, dedication and perseverance will overcome almost any prejudice and open almost any door.
~ John H. Johnson
I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.
~ Margaret Thatcher
Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.
~ Peter Marshall
All worthwhile endeavors are 90% work and 10% love, and only the love should show.
~ Chuck Jones
The will to work must dominate, for art is long and time is brief.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Life is difficult no matter what, but hard work and perseverance make it a lot easier.
~ Donald Trump
It will all work out in the end. You must keep faith in yourself, and leave the rest to God.
~ Leon Brown
Never lose the childlike wonder. Show gratitude... Don't complain; just work harder... Never give up.
~ Randy Pausch
Want a good body? Work at it. Want to be a success? Work at it. Want to be truly exceptional? Be a touch insane... You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.
~ Henry Rollins
Any reward that is worth having only comes to the industrious. The success which is made in any walk of life is measured almost exactly by the amount of hard work that is put into it.
~ Calvin Coolidge
He who labors diligently need never despair for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
~ Menander
I owe my sucess in one per cent to my talent, in ten per cent to luck, and in ninety per cent to hard word. Work, work, and more work is the secret to success.
~ Ignacy Jan Paderewski
If you fall down, get up and walk again. If you can't walk, crawl. If that idea fails, have another one It doesn't happen by accident. It takes a lot of hard work.
~ Dick Clark
That was the turning point. It was as though the signal was there, 'This is the disease you're going to have to work against.' I never really stopped to think about anything else. It was that sudden.
~ Gertrude B. Elion
I work with Garry no matter what. What I wanted to keep going was the streak.
~ Hector Elizondo
The simplest things in music are the ones that count. The simplest thing are, of course, also the most difficult to achieve and take years of work.
~ Pablo Casals
Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.
~ George Edward Woodberry
In business, when you fail at something, when something doesn't work, you say okay, we've learned that that's not a path to go down.
~ Michael Bloomberg