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Quotes About Persistence

You can lay down and die, or you can get up and fight, but that's it - there's no turning back.
~ Jon English
I always want to win because I never want to sit out on the sidelines outside.
~ Kevin Durant
There are going to be little victories that we claim, even if it's finishing 15th and putting the car back in hauler without a scratch on it.
~ Kurt Busch
I believe people have to follow their dreams-I did.
~ Larry Ellison
Hearts will break - yet brokenly, live on.
~ Lord Byron
A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.
~ Nicolas Chamfort
Ability to persevere begins with you, the individual. However, change is rarely easy. In fact, sometimes it is downright formidable.
~ Paul G. Stoltz
If you're hurt, lick your wounds and get up again. If you've given it your absolute best, it's time to move forward.
~ Richard Branson
No matter how long you play the guitar, there's always something else to learn.
~ Tom Petty
A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there.
~ Walt Disney
If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.
~ Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
When you want what you want more than you fear what you want, you will have it.
~ Alan Cohen
It's dogged as does it. It ain't thinking about it.
~ Anthony Trollope
If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing.
~ Ayn Rand
Never give up on your dreams.
~ Barack Obama
Learn to do things right and then do them right every time.
~ Bobby Knight
Ride on! Rough-shod if need be, smooth-shod if that will do, but ride on! Ride on over all obstacles, and win the race!
~ David Copperfield
Kid, you'll move mountains.
~ Dr. Seuss
You always feel when you look it straight in the eye that you could have put more into it, could have let yourself go and dug harder.
~ Emily Carr
Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once.
~ Isaac Asimov
Keep doing what you've been doing and you will keep getting what you've been getting!
~ Jackie Cooper
I've learned that I can pretty much do anything I've wanted to as long as I was methodical and diligent about it. It may not sound very exciting really, but it works.
~ Jamie Hyneman
Not only has one to do one's best, one must, while doing one's best, remain detached from whatever one is trying to achieve.
~ Janwillem van de Wetering
Discipline is just doing the same thing the right way whether anyone's watching or not.
~ Michael J. Fox