Perseverance Quotes - Page 25

• I look for struggle in the roles I choose - struggle and perseverance.

  Vera Farmiga

  Struggle, Roles, Looks

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, film.avclub.com. March 30, 2011.

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• Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On

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• When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Cheer

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• All things are difficult before they are easy.

  Thomas Fuller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Gnomologia". Book by Thomas Fuller, 560, 1732.

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• Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Work, Bad Day, Moral Growth

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• Watch the turtle. He only moves forward by sticking his neck out.

  Lou Gerstner

  Moving, Turtles, Watches

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• If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Happiness, Inspiring, Success

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• You may get skinned knees and elbows, but it's worth it if you score a spectacular goal.

  Mia Hamm

  Softball, Goal, Elbows

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• The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.

  Lorraine Hansberry

  Happiness, Inspiring, Success

  "To Be Young, Gifted and Black : Lorraine Hansberry in Her Own Words" by Lorraine Hansberry, (p. 137), 1969.

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• If you rest, you rust.

  Helen Hayes

  Funny, Life, Teaching

  Helen Hayes, Katherine Hatch (1991). “My life in three acts”

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• Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.

  Arthur Helps

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.

  Bell Hooks

  Happiness, Success, Fear

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• When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.

  Bell Hooks

  Happiness, Success, Fear

  "Bell hooks talks to John Perry Barlow". www.lionsroar.com. September 1, 1995.

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• Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Sunset, Persistence, Goal

  Elbert Hubbard (1922). “Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard ...”

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• A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.

  Robert Hughes

  Motivational, Determination, Soul

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  Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Inspiring, Happiness, Success

  Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.155, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.

  Thomas Huxley

  Men, Feet, Long

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1893). “Selected works of Thomas H. Huxley”

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• And you very soon find out, if you have not found it out before, that patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

  Thomas Huxley

  Inspirational, Life, Patience

  "Critiques and Addresses".

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• I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.

  June Jordan

  Life, Happiness, Success

  1978 Address to Black Writers Conference, Howard University. Collected as 'Where Is the Love?' in Moving Towards Home (1989).

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• If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Basketball, Wisdom

  Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”

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

  Herbert Kaufman

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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  The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  Twitter post from Aug 24, 2015

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• I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

  Stephen Leacock

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.91, University of Toronto Press

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