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Quotes About Persistence

It's a lot of work to keep reinventing yourself and coming up with new stuff, but that's what it takes to be in show business.
~ Donny Osmond
Everybody is given a Dream... you may have to work for it however.
~ Richard Bach
This veridic nose arrives everywhere a quarter of an hour before its master. Ten shoemakers, good round fat ones too, go and sit down to work under it out of the rain.
~ Cyrano de Bergerac
Most people will not do the hard work it takes to make success easy. Don't be like most people.
~ Jeffrey Gitomer
You don't think I work 14 hours a day right now?! I mean, I still put in the hours, I still do the work.
~ Frank Zappa
I will work when failures seek rest.
~ Og Mandino
Bravery comes when you commit to doing the work.
~ Chris Brogan
Hard work, courage and commitment - these are the key elements for success.
~ Dalia Grybauskaite
If it does not work the first time, try, try again. Then quit. No need to be an idiot.
~ W. C. Fields
Rowing is a sport for dreamers. As long as you put in the work, you can own the dream.
~ Jim Dietz
Don't get discouraged, and think positive all the time. Don't get down on yourself if you lose out a couple of times. It's just a lot of hard work.
~ Larisa Oleynik
You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.
~ Al Kaline
Every rejection is incremental payment on your dues that in some way will be translated back into your work.
~ James Lee Burke
Life is a challenge. Realize that and work, every day, to rise up and meet it.
~ Denise Austin
To work with undaunted energy! What fear! Who is powerful enough to thwart you.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Themes recur again and again in my work.
~ Eve Arnold
Those who work the hardest are the last to surrender.
~ Rick Pitino
There are no shortcuts to victory. We must commit ourselves to the slow, painstaking work of foreign policy day by day and year by year.
~ Richard Lugar
Regarding one's career: always be prepared, no short cuts - hard work is the only alternative that really works.
~ Kiana Tom
Beauty, unlike the rest of the gifts handed out at birth, does not require dedication, patience and hard work to pay off. But it's also the only gift that does not keep on giving.
~ Paulina Porizkova
Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. 'Get up early, work late - and strike oil.'
~ Joey Adams
Work alone will efface the footsteps of work.
~ James Whistler
Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.
~ Eugenio Montale
One becomes more interested in a job of work after the first impulse to drop it has been overcome.
~ Fulton J. Sheen