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Quotes About Persistence

Let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
But you can't just sit around the fireplace and sip Cokes and eat pretzels and get an attitude of confidence. You have to put in hard work.
~ Lee Haney
Hard work never brings fatigue. It brings satisfaction
~ Narendra Modi
Music is the journey. You never arrive in music; the work is never over.
~ Phil Woods
Endurance is lost rapidly if one ceases to work at its maximum.
~ Bruce Lee
Practice is a talent. Perseverance is a talent. Hard work is a talent.
~ Abhinav Bindra
A man will work and slave in obscurity for ten years and then become famous in ten minutes.
~ Robert Ripley
Solid, lasting missionary work is done on our knees.
~ James O. Fraser
The dream is real, my friends. The failure to make it work is the unreality.
~ Toni Cade Bambara
Hard work, honesty, if you keep at it, will get you almost anything.
~ Charlie Munger
It'll work, if God, wind, leads, ice, snow, and all the hells of this damned frozen land are willing.
~ Matthew Henson
No, I haven't failed thousands of times. On the contrary, I have successfully eliminated thousands of ideas that do not work!
~ Thomas A. Edison
Disneyland is a work of love...Drawing up plans and dreaming of what I could do, everything. It was just something I kind of kept playing around with.
~ Walt Disney
Every now and then you're going to get beaten, but we work hard.
~ Chris Paul
I work hard at it [delivery of lyrics], just like I worked hard at getting my masters degree. It's not just something I sit down and do. You have to learn and keep learning.
~ Gil Scott-Heron
Anything can happen with hard work and dedication
~ Jerry West
There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.
~ Greg LeMond
I believe that the road to pre-eminent success in any line of work is to make yourself master of that line of work.
~ Andrew Carnegie
The more you work, the more people can see that you're something different from what's come before.
~ Felicity Jones
If it takes a hundred years, it will be a pity, but I will not cease to work for it as long as I live.
~ Marie Curie
I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you've done the best you can, you can't do any better.
~ Harry S. Truman
It's all about the work. Nothing is going to fall into your lap.
~ Russell Simmons
The secret of all great undertakings is hard work and self-reliance
~ Gustavus Franklin Swift
There's nothing you've ever been successful at that you didn't work on every day.
~ Will Smith