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Quotes About Persistence

Go to College, Stay in school, If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.
~ Muhammad Ali
No one starts out on top. You have to work your way up. Some mountains are higher than others, some roads steeper than the next. There are hardships and setbacks, but you can't let them stop you. Even on the steepest road, you must not turn back. You must keep going up. In order to reach the top of the mountain, you have to climb every rock.
~ Muhammad Ali
I've never let anyone talk me into not believing in myself.
~ Muhammad Ali
Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong.
~ Muhammad Ali
Entrena mientras ellos duermen, estudia mientras ellos se divierten, persiste mientras ellos descansen y vive lo que ellos sueñan.
~ Muhammad Ali
You don't lose when you get knocked down. You lose when you stay down.
~ Muhammad Ali
Often it isn't the mountains ahead that wear you out, it's the little pebble in your shoe.
~ Muhammad Ali
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
~ Muhammad Ali
I've wrestled with alligators, I've tussled with a whale. I done handcuffed lightning And throw thunder in jail. You know I'm bad. just last week, I murdered a rock, Injured a stone, Hospitalized a brick. I'm so mean, I make medicine sick.
~ Muhammad Ali
Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong.
~ Muhammad Ali
Ba kuja sar niham keh chun zanjir Har dare halqa-e dare digar-ast (Hide—but where? Each door I close opens another.) —Anonymous (found in a ghazal by Mir Taqi Mir)
~ Unknown
When I die, don't let my death stop the resistance.
~ Muqtada al Sadr
Just trying to make it out alive," Han said. Which was honestly his ultimate goal for any day if you looked close enough.
~ Mur Lafferty
No art or learning is to be pursued halfheartedly...and any art worth learning will certainly reward more or less generously the effort made to study it.
~ Murasaki Shikibu
But planted in our flesh these valleys stand, everywhere we begin to know the illness, are forced up, and our times confirm us all.
~ Muriel Rukeyser
Final perseverance is the doctrine that wins the eternal victory in small things as in great
~ Muriel Spark
Stubbornness is cartoonish thinking that anything is possible. This is the inexhaustible energy of success.
~ Unknown
A hobby accompanied by more effort on your part, will result in a great career.
~ Unknown
All great things are hidden and difficult to achieve. But once you figure it out, you will start to live.
~ Unknown
Anyone who wish to become a genius must seek for the process and not the final product. Forget about the shortcuts and take the longest road. The future and all the prizes shall be yours!
~ Unknown
By putting your mind into action, you can simply achieve anything that you keep craving for.
~ Unknown
Complaining is a necessity rather than a choice. As you overcome one complaint, another rises, like a ladder meant to make you great.
~ Unknown
Continuous reading is the price that each author must pay.
~ Unknown
Destiny is smiling at the people who are going to become successful, but are still struggling in the present moment.
~ Unknown