Perseverance Quotes - Page 39

• It's important to just keep wanting whatever it is you want and fight for it, desperately.

  Susan Sarandon

  Determination, Fighting, Important

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• I didn't know the odds were so stacked against me. I went for TV shows and never got them. But I kept glued to the pursuit. I was the biggest fool in town, but ultimately I was the biggest fool in town with a job.

  Julia Roberts

  Jobs, Odds, Tv Shows

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• The surest method against scandal is to live it down by perseverance in well-doing, and by prayer to God that He would cure the distempered mind of those who traduce and injure us.

  Herman Boerhaave

  Prayer, Mind, Scandal

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• We are still a country where hard work and perseverance can earn you a better life... Yet we are rightfully troubled that many of our people are still caught in what seems to be a pervasive, unending financial struggle... every American deserves an equal opportunity to achieve success.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Struggle, Hard Work

  Marco Rubio’s speech on poverty, hotair.com. January 8, 2014.

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• All the information you need is available to you to have a successful career in music, if you're paying attention, and not closed off to anything. Remember, Perseverance is King.

  Bradley Joseph

  Kings, Successful, Careers

  Interview with Fred Wheeler, Indie Journal, 2002.

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• There is a fine line between perseverance and madness.

  Lynda Obst

  Lines, Madness, Fine

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• You plant a garden one flower at a time. ... You write a book one word at a time, clean a closet one shelf at a time, run a marathon one step at a time. If you feel defeated by some large task, get your spade and dig the first hole.

  Jeanne Marie Laskas

  Running, Determination, Flower

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• Sink twice before you strike out for land.

  Mary Butts

  Land, Strikes

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• Nobody wanted me. I just kept writing books and learning my craft. Most writers aren't very good in the beginning.

  Phyllis A. Whitney

  Book, Writing, Crafts

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• The Orenda is a powerful story from history, folklore and the imagination, based on the universality of human cruelty, superstition and perseverance. Wonderful writing.

  Linden MacIntyre

  Powerful, Writing, Imagination

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• Therefore let the Saints be diligent in building the Temple, and all houses which they have been, or shall hereafter be, commanded of God to build; and wait their time with patience in all meekness, faith, perseverance unto the end.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Waiting, House, Temples

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• No worthy enterprise can be done by us without continual plodding and wearisomeness to our faint and sensitive abilities.

  John Milton

  Done, Sensitive, Worthy

  John Milton (1835). “Prose Works”, p.181

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• Two roads diverged in a wood, I took the one less travelled I'm patient so that's one less hassle If I dream it, I can live it I've seen the light with vivid imagery I need to write with fits of energy But it's hard tryin' to get where I'm goin' Without a hint or an omen It's too late to turn around Perseverance, gotta learn it now But I'm stubborn how Am I supposed to survive this rollercoaster hurtlin' to the ground?

  Danny Denzongpa

  Dream, Writing, Light

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• With hearts fortified with these animating reflections, we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare, that, exerting the utmost energy of those powers, which our beneficent Creator hath graciously bestowed upon us, the arms we have compelled by our enemies to assume, we will, in defiance of every hazard, with unabating firmness and perseverance employ for the preservation of our liberties; being with one mind resolved to die freemen rather than to live as slaves.

  John Dickinson

  Heart, Reflection, Mind

  John Dickinson (1891). “The Life and Writings of John Dickinson”

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• I believe that I am very lucky to have close friends who are faithful. From my friends, I have learned the importance of perseverance.

  Julia Cameron

  Believe, Faithful, Lucky

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• I believe that the dark night of the soul is a common spiritual experience. I believe, too, that the answer is continued seeking and perseverance. It helps to know that others have endured a loss of faith.

  Julia Cameron

  Spiritual, Believe, Loss

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• Artmaking involves skills that can be learned. . . In large measure becoming an artist consists of learning to accept yourself, which makes your work personal, and in following your own voice, which makes your work distinctive. . . Even talent is rarely distinguishable, over the long run, from perseverance and lots of hard work.

  David Bayles

  Running, Hard Work, Artist

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• Even talent is rarely distinguishable, over the long run, from perseverance and lots of hard work.

  David Bayles

  Running, Hard Work, Long

  David Bayles, Ted Orland (2001). “Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking”, p.3, Image Continuum Press

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• Sometimes the only difference between those who attain and those who don't is perseverance.

  Dutch Sheets

  Differences, Sometimes

  Dutch Sheets (2012). “Dream: Discovering God's Purpose for Your Life”, p.119, Bethany House

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• When I think about parallels between myself and an Olympian, I believe that success in the world of business is underpinned by very similar principles of perseverance and hard work.

  Lakshmi Mittal

  Motivational, Believe, Hard Work

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• Becoming a professional artist takes talent and perseverance, even more so when the field is photography.

  Clyde Butcher

  Photography, Artist, Fields

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• My songs have always had hope and perseverance in them - I never write songs that have no escape hatch, no positivity.

  Jakob Dylan

  Song, Writing, Positivity

  "Jakob Dylan: 'Writing songs is a trade like anything else'". Interview with Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2012.

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• Refuse all thoughts except one: the thought 'I am'. The mind will rebel in the beginning, but with patience and perseverance it will yield and keep quiet. Once you are quiet, things will begin to happen spontaneously and quite naturally, without any interference on your part.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Yield, Mind, Rebel

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• Perseverance is the key to starting a successful business.

  Sara Blakely

  Successful, Keys, Starting

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• The lives of great men and women are miracles of patience and perseverance.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Men, Miracle, Men And Women

  Mary Baker Eddy (2000). “The Christian Science Journal”

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