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Quotes About Persistence

The Negro's problem will not be solved by running away.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Quitting is leading too.
~ Nelson Mandela
It wasn't until late high school and early college that I gained enough size and skill to make me welcome on intramural basketball teams.
~ Paul D. Boyer
If you have a dream , don't waste your energies explaining why.
~ Paulo Coelho
We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.
~ Orison Swett Marden
Very few people are capable of sustained effort, and that's the reason why we have comparatively few outstanding successes.
~ Roger McDonald
He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
~ Seneca the Younger
I hold a doctrine, to which I owe not much, indeed, but all the little I ever had, namely, that with ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.
~ Sir Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet
To win, you've got to put the ball in the macramé.
~ Terry McGuire
You become what you do most of the time.
~ Tony Robbins
After the final no there comes a yes And on that yes the future world depends.
~ Wallace Stevens
The bumps are what you climb on.
~ Warren W. Wiersbe
If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly. (on not perfectionism to put things off) .
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Fake it, you will make it. But you have to believe it.
~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi
Then I buckled up my shoes, and I started.
~ James A. Baldwin
It was quite tough, not many opportunities. I remember in primary school, one of my teachers said, "As for you young man, you haven't got much of a future."
~ John Ilhan
Successful people are people of (mo.ti.va.tion), motivation, and action.
~ Jon Jones
You can only see one thing clearly, and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that, and cling to it through thick and thin.
~ Kathleen Norris
And the mile once again becomes the focal point where it's always been
~ Ron Pickering
Persevere on, my brave lads, We have only just begun. Never despond! Never say enough!
~ Swami Vivekananda
People who succeed at the highest level are not lucky; they're doing something differently than everyone else.
~ Tony Robbins
Start slowly, then taper off.
~ Walt Stack
I tried it 100 or a million times it couldn't happen again. If I could, I would have carried on playing.
~ Alex Ferguson
The door on which we have been knocking all our lives will open at last.
~ C. S. Lewis