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Quotes About Persistence

Nothing worth having comes easy.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
I have a single track mind. I work on an idea for a long time. It's like getting acquainted with a person, and I don't get acquainted easily.
~ Georgia O'Keeffe
Failure makes me work even harder.
~ Michael Jordan
I tried for modelling work but it was a bit slow and that's when I took a part-time job at McDonalds. It gave me income while I was waiting for my big break and at the very least I could eat.
~ Sharon Stone
No one is an overachiever. How can you rise above your level of competency? Everyone is an underachiever to different degrees. The harder you work, the more luck you will have.
~ John Wooden
If you work hard, it will pay off in the end.
~ Lindsey Vonn
Writing is very hard work and knowing what you're doing the whole time.
~ Shelby Foote
Let us strive on to finish the work we are in.
~ Abraham Lincoln
No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.
~ Kathe Kollwitz
Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
~ George Herbert
You have to keep banging away at something until you get it to work. I think women are maybe better at that.
~ Thelma Schoonmaker
There is no substitute for work.
~ Vince Lombardi
There's no one who's dropped on top of the mountain. You've got to work your way to the top.
~ Al McGuire
I am tired in the Lord's work, but not tired of it.
~ George Whitefield
Lessons didn't really work out for me, so I went to the old school, listening to records and learning what I wanted to learn.
~ Dimebag Darrell
If you always think about your dreams or goals, work steadfastly towards them and continue to challenge yourself, you will definitely be able to realise those dreams or goals.
~ Tadashi Yanai
Work hard at work worth doing.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Effort and hard work construct the bridge that connects your dreams to reality.
~ Daisaku Ikeda
Gradually work your way towards the hard stuff. That will help you avoid injury and you'll be most likely to stick with it.
~ Miesha Tate
If you work it will lead to something. It's the people who do all of the work all the time who eventually catch on to things.
~ Corita Kent
Surely, in the work of the Lord, it is what we do after we think we have done enough that really counts with him, for that's when the blessings flow.
~ Hartman Rector, Jr.
Work, finish, publish.
~ Michael Faraday
. . . Wait, my child, wait and work on. Patience, patience. . . . .
~ Swami Vivekananda
Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it's still just work.
~ Sinclair Lewis