Quotes About Persistence

Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

Our work is never over.

The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.

There is no royal flower strewn path to success. And if there is, I have not found it, for whatever success I have attained has been the result of much hard work and many sleepless nights.

Work harder than anybody you've ever seen. That's what I believe.

I'm far from being god, but I work god damn hard.

With hard work and effort, you can achieve anything.

I'm proud of my work and how far I've come, and I'm proud of the way that I did it.

Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work though difficult problems.

Turning pro is a mindset. If we are struggling with fear, self-sabotage, procrastination, self-doubt, etc., the problem is, we're thinking like amateurs. Amateurs don't show up. Amateurs crap out. Amateurs let adversity defeat them. The pro thinks differently. He shows up, he does his work, he keeps on truckin', no matter what.

There is no substitute for hard work. There is no such thing as an overnight success or easy money.

The simple truth is that in order to become good, you have to be obsessed. You have to put in an awful lot of time and hard work and couple that with desire and unflagging perseverance.

Creativity itself doesn't care at all about results - the only thing it craves is the process. Learn to love the process and let whatever happens next happen, without fussing too much about it. Work like a monk, or a mule, or some other representative metaphor for diligence. Love the work. Destiny will do what it wants with you, regardless.

Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more.

That was my way of getting through difficult times of low confidence - hard work.

We've just got to keep going. More. More work, more action, more results.

Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence.

Sometimes hard work doesn't pay off.

Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best.

Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now.

It needs time. Nobody wants to hear it, but that's the truth: if you want to have success in the future, you have to be ready to work now.

We have much work ahead, to stand still.

I really believe that if you want something bad enough, and you work so hard to get it, and you have it inside, then if you just never stop, it's gonna happen.

Talent! There's no such thing as talent. What they call talent is nothing but the capacity for doing continuous hard work in the right way.