Perseverance Quotes - Page 34

• Home run hitters strike out a lot.

  Reggie Jackson

  Running, Home, Strikes

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• People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit.

  George Allen

  Determination, Persistence, People

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• In commitment, we dash the hopes of a thousand potential selves.

  Lord Byron

  Commitment, Self, Thousand

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• They, therefore, who are hasty in their devotions and think a little will do, are strangers both to the nature of devotion and the nature of man; they do not know that they are to learn to pray, and that prayer is to be learnt as they learn other things, by frequency, constancy, and perseverance.

  William Law

  Christian, Prayer, Men

  William Law (1728). “A Practical Treatise Upon Christian Perfection”, p.445

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• Quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.

  George Allen

  Determination, Men, Persistence

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• I think that you appreciate that there are extraordinary men and women and extraordinary moments when history leaps forward on the backs of these individuals, that what can be imagined can be achieved, that you must dare to dream, but that there's no substitute for perseverance and hard work and teamwork because no one gets there alone; and that, while we commemorate the... the greatness of these events and the individuals who achieve them, we cannot forget the sacrifice of those who make these achievements and leaps possible.

  Chris Carter

  Teamwork, Dream, Hard Work

  Matt Hurwitz, Chris Carter (2009). “The Complete X-Files: Behind the Series, the Myths, and the Movies”, Insight Editions

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• He who labors diligently need never despair.

  Menander

  Labor Day, Despair, Needs

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• I feel anxious for the fate of our monarchy, or democracy, or whatever is to take place. I soon get lost in a labyrinth of perplexities; but, whatever occurs, may justice and righteousness be the stability of our times, and order arise out of confusion. Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.

  Abigail Adams

  Fate, Order, Justice

  Abigail Adams, John Adams, L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Mary-Jo Kline (1975). “The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784”, p.113, UPNE

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• Perseverance is not a passive submission to circumstances-it is a strong and active response to the difficult events of life.

  Elizabeth George

  Encouraging, Strong, Events

  Elizabeth George (2007). “Finding God's Path Through Your Trials: His Help for Every Difficulty You Face”, p.52, Harvest House Publishers

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• If at first you don't succeed, try management.

  Stephen Hawking

  Success, Persistence, Life Sucks

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• Whenever faced with a challenge, I dig deep within myself and summon my spiritual and physical forces. This gives me the focus, determination, perseverance, and support I need to succeed.

  Gail Devers

  Spiritual, Determination, Giving

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• I want to accept all the difficulties that face me in life with perseverance and patience.

  Ameen Rihani

  Want, Faces, Accepting

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• The will is the spirit of perseverance, and perseverance holds clear success.

  Ameen Rihani

  Spirit, Clear

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• Even if you have money, access to MoCap technology, and strong choreographic and computer-animation abilities, don't try to make a film like this if you don't have a lot of patience, perseverance and a deep affinity for risk-taking.

  Martine Epoque

  Strong, Technology, Risk

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• All the talent in the world is useless without perseverance.

  Steve Morse

  Useless, World, Talent

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• My children, if you desire perseverance, be devout to our Blessed Lady.

  Philip Neri

  Children, Blessed, Desire

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• In this fight I want to show people who are in poverty, downtrodden or denied that you can succeed. I want my performance to be an inspiration to people. You have to stay in the moment and keep moving ahead. I just want to show everyone that you can find answers to your problems and afflictions with hard work and perseverance.

  Tavoris Cloud

  Moving, Inspiration, Hard Work

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• Crush your individuality first. Shake off the dreams of personal comfort. Then start to work. Inch by inch you shall have to proceed. It needs courage, perseverance and very strong determination. No difficulties and no hardships shall discourage you. No failure and betrayals shall dishearten you. No travails (!) imposed upon you shall snuff out the revolutionary will in you. Through the ordeal of sufferings and sacrifice you shall come out victorious. And these individual victories shall be the valuable assets of the revolution.

  Bhagat Singh

  Crush, Dream, Strong

  Bhagat Singh (1986). “Selected writings of Shaheed Bhagat Singh”

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• What comes to a person in his or her life, however difficult it may be, perhaps will help a person move closer to God. The response to tribulation is abr, which is patience, perseverance, steadfastness, and resolve. Allāh loves the patient; part of the reason the tribulation comes is to draw the quality of patience out of them - He loves this quality.

  Hamza Yusuf

  Moving, Quality, May

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• The entrepreneurial life is one of challenge, work, dedication, perseverance, exhilaration, agony, accomplishment, failure, sacrifice, control, powerlessness…but ultimately, extraordinary satisfaction.

  David S. Rose

  Sacrifice, Dedication, Agony

  "Dieter F. Uchtdorf's address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints". Interview with Martin Zwilling, www.forbes.com. May 9, 2011.

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• The movie business can be very frustrating and very circuitous; theres no straight path. You have to have tremendous perseverance, dedication and passion. You have to want it very, very badly and you have to deal with a lot of rejection.

  Denise Di Novi

  Passion, Dedication, Rejection

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• My middle name really is perseverance. I've always believed that I had talent, even when I felt like a very inferior sort of person, which I spent a lot of time living my life feeling that I wasn't worthy. But even then I knew that I had something special, and maybe that's what it takes. Maybe people need to have that kind of particular core driving them. But I felt I had talent.

  Rita Moreno

  Names, People, Feelings

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think what people love about the Steve Jobs story is not just the track record at Apple, but that comeback story, that he was thrown out of Apple, came back and built the company even greater. And that perseverance is so important in terms of entrepreneurship. And nobody is a better role model for that, for all entrepreneurs all over the world than Steve Jobs.

  Steve Case

  Jobs, Thinking, Apples

  "What Does Future Hold for Tech World, Apple Without Jobs?". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 6, 2011.

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• Prayer unaccompanied by perseverance leads to no result.

  John Calvin

  Prayer, Results

  John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.803, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The potential elite runner must realize that hard means hard, easy means easy and they must patiently seek out what combinations work for them. They have to learn to be persistent and patient with their training and racing.

  Frank Shorter

  Sports, Mean, Persistence

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