Persistence!

  1. It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. ~ Albert Einstein
  2. Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them. ~ Ann Landers
  3. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. ~ Aristotle
  4. As long as there's breath in You--Persist! ~ Bernard Kelvin Clive
  5. No great achievement is possible without persistent work. ~ Bertrand Russell
  6. Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in. ~ Bill Bradley
  7. Champions keep playing until they get it right. ~ Billy Jean King
  8. My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories. ~ Bjorn Borg
  9. Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. ~ Calvin Coolidge
  10. Persistence and determination are always rewarded. ~ Christine Rice
  11. Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence. ~ Colin Powell
  12. Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success. ~ Dale Carnegie
  13. A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success. ~ Elbert Hubbard
  14. Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries. ~ James A. Michener
  15. The most essential factor is persistence--the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come. ~ James Whitcomb Riley
  16. Money grows on the tree of persistence. ~ Japanese Proverb
  17. Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity. ~ Louis Pasteur
  18. Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time. ~ Marabel Morgan
  19. If you can't fly, then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
  20. You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it. ~ Maya Angelou
  21. It always seems impossible until it is done. ~ Nelson Mandela
  22. Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did. ~ Newt Gingrich
  23. Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone ~ Pablo Picasso
  24. He conquers who endures. ~ Persius
  25. Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
  26. Press on. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. ~ Ray Kroc
  27. To persist with a goal, you must treasure the dream more than the costs of sacrifice to attain it. ~ Richelle E. Goodrich
  28. If you do not have persistence then no amount of education, talent, or genius can make up for it. ~ Stephen Richards
  29. The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense. ~ Thomas Edison
  30. Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. ~ Thomas Edison
  31. Permanence, perseverance, and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragement, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak. ~ Thomas Carlyle
  32. I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. ~ Thomas Jefferson
  33. We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are. ~ Tobias Wolff
  34. All right Mister, let me tell you what winning means... you're willing to go longer, work harder, give more than anyone else. ~ Vincent Lombardi
  35. Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. ~ William James
  36. Continuous effort--not strength or intelligence--is the key to unlocking our potential. ~ Winston Churchill
  37. Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." ~ Winston Churchill
  38. Paralyze resistance with persistence. ~ Woody Hayes
  39. Consider the postage stamp: Its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. ~ Josh Billings