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Persistence Quotes

Parents, it seems, have an almost Olympian persistence when it comes to suggesting more secure and lucrative lines of work for their children who have the notion that writing is an actual profession. I say this from experience.

Work Children Persistence Experience

Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the generations to follow.

Persistence Cool Economics Survival

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.

Never Give Up Great Persistence Fight

As for goals, I don't set myself those anymore. I'm not one of these 'I must have achieved this and that by next year' kind of writers. I take things as they come and find that patience and persistence tend to win out in the end.

Goals Patience Myself Persistence

Success is not the absence of failure; it's the persistence through failure.

Success Failure Persistence Through

Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory but rather of embracing common sense with uncommon levels of discipline and persistence.

Patrick Lencioni

Success Persistence Discipline Matter

In 1989, I was on Tiananmen Square with the students, living in their makeshift tents and joining their jubilant singing of the Internationale. In the two decades since, each time that I have gone back, visions from those days seem to return with increasing persistence.

Time Persistence Singing Back Living

Throughout human history, in any great endeavour requiring the common effort of many nations and men and women everywhere, we have learned - it is only through seriousness of purpose and persistence that we ultimately carry the day. We might liken it to riding a bicycle. You stay upright and move forward so long as you keep up the momentum.

Women History Great Persistence Day

Persistence pays off.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Persistence Off Pays

The only recipe is hard work, persistence, and belief.

Julen Lopetegui

Work Hard Work Persistence Belief

Persistence is a pretty important part of making it in this business, which, in retrospect, is the easy part. Maintaining a profile is the difficult part of the job. Somehow or another, I muddled through that system and somehow am around to still enjoy playing for people.

Business Persistence Job People Easy

The truth of the matter is that the people who succeed in the arts most often are the people who get up again after getting knocked down. Persistence is critical.

Truth Persistence People Succeed Up

I swam across Skaneateles Lake, about a mile, when I was 11 years old. I remember feeling when I was in the middle of the lake that I would be there forever, and having no idea where on shore I'd end up. I made it, and I'm proud of the determination and persistence that took.

Determination Persistence Proud End

Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

Success Path Persistence Ambition

Some people mistake grit for sheer persistence - charging up the same hill again and again. But that's not quite what I mean by the word 'grit.' You want to minimize friction and find the most effective, most efficient way forward. You might actually have more grit if you treat your energy as a precious commodity.

Persistence Mistake People Treat You

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

Success Failure Hope Persistence May

The big talent is persistence.

Octavia E. Butler

Persistence Talent Big

Being a writer, writing for a living, is one long persistence game. Everyone wants you to quit. Quite often, you want to quit. You get kicked down. You come up swinging. You keep going. Either you are committed to it, or you aren't.

Persistence Keep Going Writing Game

In my view, it's irreverence, foolish confidence and naivety combined with persistence, open mindedness and a continual ability to learn that created Facebook, Google, Yahoo, eBay, Microsoft, Apple, Juniper, AOL, Sun Microsystems and others.

Confidence Persistence Sun Learn

I've been pretty good about keeping my nose to the grindstone. I feel like I won a lot of matches from hard work and persistence, even maybe when I had better options as far as shot-making.

Work Hard Work Good Persistence Feel

Persistence is a secret weapon for everyone.

Persistence Secret Everyone Weapon

Many people in San Francisco know me, and they know my persistence.

Persistence People Me Know Many San

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

Strength Perseverance Persistence

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

Determination Persistence Energy Must

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