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Quotes About Persistence

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
~ Hal Borland
Today's patience can transform yesterday's discouragements into tomorrow's discoveries. Today's purposes can turn yesterday's defeats into tomorrow's determination.
~ William Arthur Ward
He that can have patience can have what he will.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Patience and perseverance are necessary in autosuggestion, as well as in everything else.
~ Émile Coué
Patience is eternal genius
~ Michelangelo
Everything comes if a man will only wait.
~ Benjamin Disraeli, Tancred
And you very soon find out, if you have not found it out before, that patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.
~ Thomas Huxley
All things pass... Patience attains all it strives for.
~ Teresa of Avila
Learning patience takes a lot of patience!
~ Tim Hansel
All good things come to those who wait.
~ Paullina Simons
Patience is a virtue, but impatience gets things done.
~ Chelsea Clinton
Patience wins the race.
~ Bernard Barton
Take up an idea, devote yourself to it, struggle on in patience, and the sun will rise for you.
~ Swami Vivekananda
There is nothing which so certifies the genuineness of a man's faith as his patience and his patient endurance, his keeping on steadily in spite of everything.
~ Martyn Lloyd-Jones
A stumble may prevent a fall.
~ Thomas Fuller
Even if I should never see a native converted, God may design by my patience and continuance in the Word to encourage future missionaries.
~ Henry Martyn
Patience is a virtue. Keep doing what you want to do and eventually things will happen.
~ Arian Foster
You have to have patience in this field.
~ Walter Schloss
I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000-step process.
~ Thomas A. Edison
Take courage and work on. Patience and steady work- this is the only way.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Have patience. Stocks don't go up immediately.
~ Walter Schloss
There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
If you really want your films to say something that you hope is unique, then patience and stamina, thick skin and a kind of stupidity, a mule-like stupidity, is what you really need.
~ Terry Gilliam
What is so certain of victory as patience?
~ Selma Lagerlöf