Perseverance Quotes - Page 35

• Nick Diaz is a champion so he's got the spirit that comes with it. So he's not going to give up mentally. You see a lot of guys give up mentally and that's why they get knocked out or submitted. They give up mentally before they lose.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Sports, Giving Up, Persistence

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• I think that with a lot of hard work and dedication, I feel that I could be the best in the world. I'm still only 35 years old... I have a fresh start physically and mentally, and I feel that I can achieve my goal to be the best again.

  Mario Lemieux

  Sports, Hard Work, Persistence

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• Perceptions of impossibility are commonly disspelled by unmitigated courage and perseverance.

  Wes Fesler

  Achievement, Perception, Impossibility

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• As long as the day lasts, let's give it all we got.

  David O. McKay

  Long, Giving, Lasts

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• It's dogged as does it.

  Anthony Trollope

  Doe

  'The Last Chronicle of Barset' (1867) ch. 61

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• When the worms are scarce, what does a hen do? Does she stop scratching? She does not. She scratches all the harder. A lot of businessmen have been showing less sense than a hen since orders became scarce. They have laid off salesmen; they have stopped or reduced their advertising; they have simply resigned themselves to inaction and, of course, to pessimism. If a hen knows enough to scratch all the harder when the worms are scarce, surely businessmen ... ought to have gumption enough to scratch all the harder for business.

  B. C. Forbes

  Order, Gumption, Hens

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• How you start is important, very important, but in the end it is how you finish that counts. It is easier to be a self-starter than a self-finisher. The victor in the race is not the one who dashes off swiftest but the one who leads at the finish. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter in life's race. In America we breed many hares but not so many tortoises.

  B. C. Forbes

  Self, America, Race

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• When you want a thing deeply, earnestly and intensely, this feeling of desire reinforces your will and arouses in you the determination to work for the desired object. When you have a distinct purpose in view, your work becomes of absorbing interest. You bend your best powers to it; you give it concentrated attention; you think of little else than the realization of this purpose; your will is stimulated into unusual activity, and as a consequence you do your work with an increasing sense of power.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Determination, Thinking, Views

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• Act with a determination not to be turned aside by thoughts of the past and fears of the future.

  Robert E. Lee

  Determination, Past, Fear Of The Future

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• When business is not all that it should be there is a temptation to sit back and say, Well, what's the use! We've done everything possible to stir up a little business and there is nothing doing so what's the use of trying! There is always a way. There was a way in and there is a way out. And success comes to the man who grits his teeth, squares his jaw, and says, There is a way for me and, by jingo, I'll find it. The stagnator gathers green scum, finally dries up and leaves an unsightly hollow.

  Cliff Sloan

  Men, Squares, Temptation

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• A determination to succeed is the only way to succeed that I know anything about.

  William Feather

  Determination, Way, Succeed

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• The three indispensable of genius are: understanding, feeling, and perseverance; the three things that enrich genius are: contentment of mind, the cherishing of good thoughts, and the exercise of memory

  Robert Southey

  Memories, Exercise, Feelings

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• In the end, it's all about perseverance.

  Dean Koontz

  Funny Wedding, Ends

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• The American Dream is freedom, prosperity, peace-and liberty and justice for all. That's a big dream. It's not always easy to achieve, but that's the ideal. More than any country in history we've made gains toward a democracy that is enviable throughout the world. Dreams require perseverance if they are to be realized, and fortunately we're a hard-working country and people. We are the luckiest people in history, just by the fact that we are Americans.

  Donald Trump

  Dream, Country, Hard Work

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• In all their wars against the French they [the Americans] never showed such conduct, attention and perseverance as they do now.

  Thomas Gage

  War, Military, America

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• Just because you didn't start out perfect doesn't mean you can't have an excellent result in the end.

  Debi Thomas

  Success, Sports, Mean

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• The difference between being a winner and being a loser is how you pick yourself up again, especially when you're down for the third or fourth or twentieth time!

  Susan Humphreys

  Success, Sports, Persistence

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• You know, many of you kids can't relate to what it takes to get to the top rung, the top of the heap, to have success. We're looking for things that come in a minute. It just doesn't happen.

  Dave Winfield

  Success, Sports, Kids

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• The Yankee: In acuteness and perseverance, he resembles the Scotch. In frugal
  neatness, he resembles the Dutch. But in truth, a Yankee is nothing else on earth
  but himself.

  Frances Trollope

  Scotch, Yankees, Earth

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• Practice is a talent. Perseverance is a talent. Hard work is a talent.

  Abhinav Bindra

  Hard Work, Practice, Talent

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• Don't be discouraged, but know that suffering produces perseverance, perseverance brings character, and character brings hope, and this is a hope which will not disappoint us.

  Jon Foreman

  Character, Suffering, Discouraged

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• Three rules of success in fashion: perseverance, dream a bit and be passionate about it.

  Grace Coddington

  Dream, Fashion, Three

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• Making the absolute best of ourselves is not an easy task. It is a pleasurable pursuit...but it requires patience, persistence, and perseverance.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Persistence, Tasks, Easy

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• And, more importantly, reach for the stars. And realize that it is never too late – not now, not ever – for you to pursue your passion, your pursuit of perfection. And most importantly, your perseverance for making it happen.

  Debbi Fields

  Stars, Passion, Perfection

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• Who of us is able to read and understand and be entirely confident of the validity of his title to the land he lives on, and which he has redeemed from a state of nature by the most indefatigable industry and perseverance?

  William H. Wharton

  Nature, Land, Titles

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