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Quotes About Persistence

Running well is a matter of having the patience to persevere when we are tired and not expecting instant results.
~ Robert de Castella
To lose patience is to lose the battle.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
It is difficult to be patient but to waste the rewards of patience is worse.
~ Abu Bakr
Character never quits; and with patience and persistence; Dreams do come true!
~ Pete Maravich
Patience, he thought. So much of this was patience - waiting, and thinking and doing things right. So much of all this, so much of all living was patience and thinking.
~ Gary Paulsen, Hatchet
Long patience and application saturated with your heart's blood-you will either write or you will not-and the only way to find out whether you will or not is to try.
~ Jim Tully
Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.
~ Ovid
Patience is the mother of will.
~ G. I. Gurdjieff
Patience is the healthiest ingredient of our life.
~ Umar
I think patience is the best thing to try to embrace.
~ Alessia Cara
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
~ Edmund Burke
How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
~ William Shakespeare
He who has infinite patience and infinite energy at his back, will alone succeed.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.
~ Friedrich Schiller
Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.
~ Margaret Atwood
Instruct thyself for time and patience favor all.
~ Pythagoras
I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Seek patience and passion in equal amounts. Patience alone will not build the temple. Passion alone will destroy its walls.
~ Maya Angelou
Great patience is called for on the hard path that I have entered on.
~ Edgar Degas
Have patience. Everything is difficult before it is easy.
~ Saadi
I will not be distracted by noise, chatter, or setbacks. Patience, commitment, grace, and purpose will guide me.
~ Louise Hay
I believe that, with anything in life, if you have the patience, desire and passion, you can do whatever you set your mind to.
~ Ed Viesturs
I practice Transcendental Meditation and I had enough exercise. I am one who thinks that not only need to have patience, we must persevere. If you do it right you'll see results.
~ Juan Manuel Santos
Learn to wait; invariably either things will change or your heart will.
~ Jonathan Carroll