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Quotes About Persistence

There are certain people who so ardently and passionately desire a thing that from dread of losing it they leave nothing undone to make them lose it.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult and difficult as if they were easy in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep in the other that it may not be dismayed.
~ Baltasar Gracian
The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.
~ Chinese proverb
With faith, we can conquer the mightiest mountain.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence.
~ James N. Watkins
If you will assume your desire and live there as though it were true, no power on earth can stop it from becoming a fact.
~ Neville Goddard
The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us
~ Voltaire
When you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
And where does the power come from, to see the race to its end? From within.
~ Eric Liddell
Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, will not be given up without a struggle.
~ Shulamith Firestone
Pray on, dear one- the power lies that way
~ Mary Slessor
Do the thing and the power will come.
~ Thomas A. Edison
Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
~ Epictetus
Hope is much more than a mood. It involves a commitment to action.... What we hope for should be what we are prepared to work for...as far as that power lies in us.
~ John Polkinghorne
Persistence, persistence, and persistence. The Power can be created and maintained through daily practice - continuous effort.
~ Bruce Lee
Excitement must lead to immediate action or you will lose the power of momentum. More dreams die because we fail to seize the moment. Do it now!
~ Tony Robbins
After an hour your power goes sour.
~ Frosty Freeze
All human power is a compound of time and patience.
~ Honore de Balzac
Thousands of people have talent. I might as well congratulate you for having eyes in your head. The one and only thing that counts is: Do you have staying power?
~ Noel Coward
Genius is only the power of making continuous efforts.
~ Elbert Hubbard
What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
~ Napoleon Hill
A half-hearted spirit has no power. Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Average people enter into their endeavors headlong and without care.
~ Epictetus
Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome his power, broken his will.
~ Stephen Ambrose
Will power is but the unflinching purpose to carry the task you set for yourself to fulfillment.
~ George S. Clason