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Quotes About Persistence

A shadow is hard to seize by the throat and dash to the ground.
~ Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
Life in us is like the water in a river.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Don't stop moving - the best time of your life is just around the corner!
~ Denise Austin
I don't think anyone ever gets over anything in life; they merely get used to it.
~ Douglas Coupland
In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.
~ John Masefield
If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you.
~ Louis D. Brandeis
There is only one thing in life you can control: Your own effort.
~ Mark Cuban
Don't let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don't whine. You can be brought low, that's OK, but don't be reduced by them. Just say, 'That's life.'
~ Maya Angelou
True hope responds to the real world, to real life; it is an active effort.
~ Walter Inglis Anderson
There is magic in knocking down your most important domino day after day. All you have to do is avoid breaking the chain, one day at a time, until you generate a powerful new habit in your life.
~ Gary W. Keller
It was June 4, 1979, the first time I went on stage. I didn't know I could do it but I knew I couldn't not do it. I quit everything in my life and this was the one thing I couldn't quit.
~ George Lopez
There wasn't anything in my life that was going to stop me from making movies.
~ George Lucas
I've resolved so many things in my life. I like the idea of showing that you can go through a lot and still be on your feet, still be working, and still be positive about life.
~ Gloria Vanderbilt
We have to be realistic. If we don't win, life will continue.
~ Hayden Fry
I always tell my husband, 'That's it, I quit, I've done all I wanted,' and he's just like, 'Yeah, yeah. Sure.'
~ Helen Mirren
The future is too soon the past. So make perseverance your excellence and go confidently in the direction of your dreams.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Put your life's plan into determined action and go after what you want with all that's in you.
~ Henry J. Kaiser
I have in my own fashion learned the lesson that life is effort, unremittingly repeated.
~ Henry James
Half of life is up - the other half is dealing with it.
~ Henry Rollins
I had to fight my whole life to break out of my circumstances. That's just part of my makeup.
~ Hilary Swank
I've been writing my entire life, and I'll always write.
~ J. K. Rowling
Anybody can have a life. Careers are hard to come by.
~ Jay Leno
If you can refine your skills and eliminate your mistakes, you will start winning. That's the price you must pay to be successful in wrestling, and in most aspects of life.
~ Jay Robinson
When you truly commit in your life, you start receiving more than you could imagine.
~ Jeff Bridges