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Quotes About Persistence

A poor photographer meets chance one out of a hundred times and a good photographer meets chance all the time.
~ Brassai
All great acheivements require time.
~ Maya Angelou
To keep going in baseball, you have to learn all the time. I love to play. When I can't get outs, I'll stop.
~ Fernando Valenzuela
One step at a time is all it takes to get you there.
~ Emily Dickinson
The first time I lose I drink whiskey, second time I lose I drink gin. Third time I lose I drink anything 'cause I think I'm gonna win.
~ Gram Parsons
I'll never worry about not being successful. I'll just take it one day at a time, one season at a time. And play as hard as I can.
~ Bo Jackson
The days followed one another patiently. Right back at the beginning of the multiverse they had tried all passing at the same time, and it hadn't worked.
~ Terry Pratchett
I climbed like a billion stairs... its not like I can take them two at a time.
~ Danny DeVito
Good things take time, as they should. We shouldn't expect good things to happen overnight. Actually, getting something too easily or too soon can cheapen the outcome.
~ John Wooden
When you're climbing Mount Everest, nothing is easy. You just take one step at a time, never look back and always keep your eyes glued to the top.
~ Jacqueline Susann
Do your best, one shot at a time, and then move on.
~ Nancy Lopez
Resistance to unwanted circumstances has the power to keep those circumstances alive and well for a very long time.
~ Pema Chodron
I never lost a tennis match, I just ran out of time
~ Jimmy Connors
If you're really looking for something in particular, it helps to take your time.
~ Billy Gibbons
It's taken me a long time to learn to accept the risks and just be willing to try it over and over again.
~ Uma Thurman
The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be done.
~ Will Durant
For me as leader my time is nearly over but for Scotland the campaign continues and the dream will never die.
~ Alex Salmond
If you procrastinate when faced with a big difficult problem... break the problem into parts, and handle one part at a time.
~ Robert Collier
I believe it will take time to find a solution to the problem. Thus we must have patience.
~ Boutros Boutros-Ghali
You can get anywhere if you simply go one step at a time.
~ Dave Ramsey
It is those who concentrate on but one thing at a time who advance in this world
~ Og Mandino
The human will is an amazing thing. Time after time, it has triumphed against unbelievable odds.
~ Stephen Covey
Search, no matter what situation you are in. O thirsty one, search for water constantly. Finally, the time will come when you will reach the spring.
~ Rumi
Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate, Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow