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Quotes About Perseverance

Work alone will efface the footsteps of work.
~ James Whistler
The great difference between those who succeed and those who fail does not consist in the amount of work done by each but in the amount of intelligent work.
~ Og Mandino
One thing they don't tell you about doing experimental physics is that sometimes you must work under adverse conditions... like a state of sheer terror.
~ William Kenneth Hartmann
One becomes more interested in a job of work after the first impulse to drop it has been overcome.
~ Fulton J. Sheen
Things hardly ever work on the first try. We'll make another, a better one.
~ Anthony Doerr
I have to work extra hard because I am dyslexic. People said that I couldn't be an actress, but I'm proving them wrong. Acting has helped me overcome the challenge.
~ Bella Thorne
Every true work of God has had its bitter enemies - not only outside, but also inside - just as in the days of Nehemiah.
~ Dwight L. Moody
Focused, hard work is the real key to success.
~ John Carmack
All roads lead home in the end. You've got to keep that in mind always - in your work and in your life.
~ Chiwetel Ejiofor
Properly speaking, such work is never finished; one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has done one's best.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
~ Thomas A. Edison
Make a painting you can work on for a long period, and make it look like it doesn't show any effort.
~ Alex Katz
It took me years and years of trial efforts to work out that there is absolutely no knitting triumph I can achieve that my husband will think is worth being woken up for.
~ Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
Remember there is no success without hard work.
~ Sophocles
I'm not too fond of the hard work and the constant battle with self-doubt that goes on when I write, but I figure that's part of the territory.
~ Robert Sheckley
In fact, as a spin bowler, you have to work on the batsman over after over.
~ Richie Benaud
Failure of your company is not failure in life. Failure in your relationships is.
~ Evan Williams
I also work out because I have scoliosis. I have to maintain certain strength in my core.
~ Joan Smalls
And still the time, especially in the economy, is very tough, very difficult. It's necessary to be active still, to work, to fight, to make our economy more competitive.
~ Aleksander Kwasniewski
work is happiness. No one can take my work from me and therefore no one can take my happiness from me.
~ Marie Corelli
I believe in fate, I believe in hard work, and I feel like if I just keep marching, the path will kind of appear before me.
~ Tatyana Ali
I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.
~ Taylor Caldwell
No matter how big the glam squad, or how dramatic the dress, sometimes things just don't work out.
~ Jennifer Hudson
Pessimism is not only unwarranted, it is also a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you think the cause is lost, it will be. No one works hard for a cause they think will lose.
~ Lawrence Reed