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May 15, 2011 by kevinstilley

Perseverence / Persistence / Determination – select quotes

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The only difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is extraordinary determination.
~ Mary Kay Ash

A man can get discouraged many times, but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
~ John Burroughs

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan “press on” has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
~ Calvin Coolidge

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.
~ Marie Curie

A champion is one who gets up even when he can’t.
~ Jack Dempsey

The difference in winning and losing is most often… not quitting.
~ Walt Disney

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
~ Benjamin Disraeli

We will either find a way or make one.
~ Hannibal

Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.
~ Elbert Hubbard

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
~ Herbert Kaufman

Ninety percent of all those who fail are not actually defeated. They simply quit.
~ Paul J. Meyer

Trying times are not the times to stop trying.
~ Ray Owen

I am grateful for all of my problems. After each one was overcome, I became stronger and more able to meet those that were still to come. I grew in all my difficulties.
~ J.C. Penney

Heroism consists of hanging on one minute longer.
~ Norwegian Proverb

It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.
~ Babe Ruth

Perseverance is more efficacious than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they stand together, yield themselves us when taken little by little.
~ Sertorius, in Plutarch’s Lives

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.
~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, from Salt-Cellars

Anyone can CARRY HIS BURDEN
however hard, until nightfall.
Anyone, can DO HIS WORK,
however hard, one day.
Anyone can live SWEETLY, PATIENTLY, LOVINGLY,
until the sun goes down.
And this is all that life really is.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe

There is no such thing as natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls.
— Lee Trevino

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end.
~ Denis Waitley

We are made to persist. That’s how we find out who we are.
~ Tobias Wolff

Most people who fail in their dreams fail not from lack of ability but from lack of commitment.
~ Zig Ziglar

For you need endurance, so that after you have done God’s will, you may receive what was promised.
~ Bible, Hebrews 10:36

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