Persistence Quotes

The author describes the adoption process in which he and his wife participated as a paperwork pregnancy.

~ David Platt

Inspiration does not linger in one place over time, therefore human effort shouldn't be scaled on earlier attempt.

~ Unarine Ramaru

If you never persisted, you will never succeed.

~ Vann Chow

Persistence is a writer's best friend disguised as a bully.

~ A.m. Mcknight

Persistence Pays...Period.

~ Sotero M Lopez Ii

Persistence is what keeps you hanging on when hanging on gets tough.

~ Debasish Mridha

Persistence to fight for what you want is what separates those who win and those who don't.

~ Tony Curl

Persistence is victory. Just . . . keep . . . going. It doesn’t matter if things aren’t going the way you thought they would or if you’re facing a disappointment. The only defeat is in quitting. If you keep going, you’re winning.

~ Mara Schiavocampo

My father told me never to take my foot off a ladder to kick at someone who was kicking at me. When I did that, I would no longer be climbing. While they are kicking, my father told me, I should keep stepping. They can kick only one time. If I continued to climb, they would be left behind. In trying to hurt me, to impede my progress, they would get left behind because they allowed themselves to get sidetracked from their agenda.

~ Steve Harvey

There are two ways to do great mathematics. The first is to be smarter than everybody else. The second way is to be stupider than everybody else — but persistent.

~ Raoul Bott

Your voice is strongest when you remain firm, when you are not moved by your circumstance. For we must not permit others to define who we are or what we stand for.

~ Lorna Jackie Wilson

Persistence is a necessary ingredient for success.

~ Debasish Mridha

The art of love is largely the art of persistence.

~ Albert Ellis

Persistence is often a detective's greatest ally.

~ Lara Adrian

Inspiring qualities make some people to feel a little uneasy.

~ Auliq Ice

... if they are persistent enough, even tiny drops of water, over time, can change the rock forever. And it will never change back. - Zoe

~ Veronica Roth

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

~ Max Beerbohm

You will never know what you can accomplish until you really put in persistent effort and never giving up.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

People stagger, but they pick up a tattered thread and wind it back onto a spool.

~ Donia Bijan

Your persistent problems are because of your response to common misfortune.

~ Bryant Mcgill

As the tides of life rise and fall, life is constant, like the waves crashing upon the shore. Persistence is the key in high and low times…

~ James A. Murphy

She and me? We the same in some fings. We live. The others, those orphan kids, they dead. Because she and me, we want to live and we do anyfing to make that happen. That's the difference between us and the others.

~ Melina Marchetta

In algorithms, as in life, persistence usually pays off.

~ Steven S. Skiena

start something, with a knowledge to end it.

~ Krishna Sagar

We have begun a fight that it may be will take many a generation to complete...but you know that men are not put into this world to go the path of ease; they are put into this world to go the path of pain and struggle...We have given our lives to the enterprise, and that is richer and the moral is greater.

~ Woodrow Wilson

Never underestimate the hidden power of one very determined person. There is nothing more powerful than determination and persistence.

~ Ziad K. Abdelnour

It's a funny word, persistence. It means not giving up, but it also means just passing on through time.

~ Ahmir Questlove Thompson

Either you make things happen or you quit.

~ Vivian Weissman

Believing in yourself truly means trusting your capability to think, learn, do, and deliver better results. In that case, it doesn’t matter where you’re starting from. As you keep going, you’re developing into a better person.

~ Successcoach Nilesh

For success, don't take the path of least resistance. Take the path of most persistence.

~ Michele Jennae

Courage is the first of human qualities, because it is the quality that guarantees all the others. - Winston Churchill

~ Cara Charles

Inspiration comes when you stick your elbows on the table, your bottom on the chair and you start sweating. Choose a theme, an idea, and squeeze your brain until it hurts. That's called inspiration.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

In conservation, the motto should always be 'never say die'.

~ Gerald Durrell

Love, endure, persist... Everything will return to you, innocent fool!

~ Raheel Farooq

People don't just live one life. They keep coming back until they get it right.

~ C.r. Strahan

She knew she could answer it. She knew how to put one foot in front of the other even when every step hurt. And she knew there was pain in the journey, but there was also great beauty. She’d seen it standing on rooftops and in green eyes and in the smallest, ugliest rock. She would find the answer.

~ Veronica Rossi

To shine and outshine the shining stars, to take your abilities to the greatest height, to sit on top of the world, you must fortify yourself with persistence, the determination and willingness to stay in the same direction over a long period of time whatever the cost might be.

~ Ogwo David Emenike

As you think and act, so your world becomes.

~ T. Scott Mcleod

I will not be defined by the marks left on me by the world, but by the mark I leave on the world (referring to the facial scars he still carries from his successful 1991 battle against cancer, which caused him to be turned down for a customer service job because he was too ugly).

~ James Houston Turner

Most of Csongor's time in T'Rain had been spent blundering about in a state of hapless newbie confusion. Only his long experience as a system administrator, struggling with Byzantine software installations, had prevented hum from plummeting into despair and simply giving up. Not that any of the sysadmin's knowledge and skills were applicable here. The psychological stance was the thing: the implicit faith, a little naive and a little cocky, that by banging his head against the problem for long enough he'd be able to break through in the end.

~ Neal Stephenson