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Quotes About Perseverance

Sometimes you can be down and struggling, but as long as you keep working at it, you win.
~ Mike Webster
I don't think anyone just becomes something overnight. I think it's many, many hours in the dark, there's all that time that people don't see you doing smaller things or struggling along. Then suddenly you get a break and people are like, 'He came out of nowhere!'
~ Karl Glusman
You need a stubborn belief in an idea in order to see it realised.
~ James Dyson
The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.
~ Isaac D'Israeli
I have never had to face anything that could overwhelm the native optimism and stubborn perseverance I was blessed with.
~ Sonia Sotomayor
I'm stubborn; I know what I want. I'll dedicate all my efforts to achieving it.
~ Carlo Rubbia
I have my own stubborn attitude about how I want to play and where I want to go.
~ Rory Gallagher
I'm a pretty stubborn guy. I don't quit too easily.
~ Erik Prince
Sport has made me realise that you have to be stubborn and to persevere to get the results. It might take longer in politics, but once you have the right goal and desire, you will reach it.
~ Vitali Klitschko
I started off as a model and struggled for some time until I got a break as an actress. I was too stubborn to let go and was sure I was in the right place at the right time. I just fought and I think that's how I am where I am today.
~ Natasha Henstridge
When things take a long time, I just get really stubborn.
~ Britney Spears
Being stubborn has helped, being selfish is not a bad thing.
~ Herbie Mann
Sometimes I'm more stubborn than I am smart.
~ Pat Summitt
I was a stubborn cuss, and I made some mistakes.
~ Earl Butz
I'm very stubborn. I feel like I'm going to play this season.
~ Candace Parker
I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It goes back to my childhood when I had problems in school because I have a learning disability.
~ Ann Bancroft
I've always been stubborn.
~ Liam McIntyre
My parents have been together for 65 years. They're both really stubborn. They're not quitters.
~ Mary-Louise Parker
The common, the quotidian, is so much more unyielding to me, really stubborn and hard to work with, and I like this because it makes me think and it makes me worry. I can't just plunge my hand into the meat of it. I need new approaches.
~ Ben Marcus
I learned that it's OK to be stubborn about your craft, and it's OK to demand excellence from the industry.
~ Kat Graham
I'm really incredibly stubborn - you can ask my ex-husband. I think when you tell me 'no', if it's something I really want, I'm just going to push harder.
~ Kathryn Stockett
I was told 'no' a lot when I first got to Nashville, but I'm pretty stubborn! That's one of my faults and qualities.
~ Dustin Lynch
My parents weren't keen on the giving up of school at the beginning to go into singing and dancing, but once they saw I was serious about it, they gave support. I was quite stubborn about my decision, and in the end, they realised it was for the best.
~ Kate Bush
I'm stubborn, which is not necessarily admirable.
~ Katharine Ross