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Quotes About Persistence

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Fear and I were old buddies, despite my best efforts to the contrary.
~ Peter Straub
Put one foot in front of the other. Keep marching forward, even when doubt, fear, and failure all come knocking at your door.
~ Jared Leto
They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.
~ James Allen
God's Word is pure and sure, in spite of the devil, in spite of your fear, in spite of everything.
~ R. A. Torrey
The 'Amazing' can only be created by facing fear, risk and failure during the process.
~ Joel Brown
I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.
~ Emma Watson
They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.
~ Thomas Bailey Aldrich
You do not have to be fearless, just don't let fear stop you.
~ Charlie Day
Although the road is never ending take a step and keep walking, do not look fearfully into the distance... On this path let the heart be your guide for the body is hesitant and full of fear.
~ Rumi
I have a level of fear going into every project, and that's what keeps me going.
~ Gerard Butler
Study as though you cannot catch up to it, and as though you fear you are going to lose it.
~ Confucius
Fear is something you have to throw into a corner. Constantly. Because it never goes away.
~ F. Lee Bailey
Though you should not fear failure, you should do your very best to avoid it.
~ Conan O'Brien
You can't have good ideas unless you're willing to generate a lot of bad ones.
~ Seth Godin
But that inadequacy, or feeling of inadequacy, never really goes away. You just have to trudge ahead in the rain, regardless.
~ Lorrie Moore
While doubt cannot be expelled, it can be subdued.
~ Richard Baxter
Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I didn't fear failure. I expected failure.
~ Amy Tan
The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
~ Tacitus
The status quo is persistent and resistant. It exists because everyone wants it to. Everyone believes that what they've got is probably better than the risk and fear that come with change.
~ Seth Godin
Still humping the American Dream
~ Hunter S. Thompson
That is what we are, what we do: nose a net, push push, a net that never exists. The knots in the mesh as strong as our own believing. Our own fears.
~ Peter Heller, The Dog Stars
It may take us a little longer to reach the summit, but never fear, we will get there!
~ Barbara Mertz