Persistence Quotes - Page 11

• If I hadn't had the talent, the networks wouldn't have televised my fights. No one has made me; I made myself. I paid my dues

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Success, Sports, Perseverance

  FaceBook post by SUGAR RAY LEONARD from Jul 19, 2013

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• Yeah I want it all, that's why I strive for it

  Drake

  Success, Perseverance, Determination

  Song: Successful, 2009

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• Before the start of the '76 Olympics, I'd had 160 amateur fights. I won 155 and lost five

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Success, Sports, Perseverance

  FaceBook post by SUGAR RAY LEONARD from Oct 23, 2013

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• Literature simply becomes richer after you've been fired, rejected, stranded, or had to change a few midnight diapers.

  Christian Bauman

  Change, Writing, Rejection

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• If you play to win as I do, the game never ends.

  Stan Mikita

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• As long as you've done your best, making mistakes doesn't matter. You and I are human; we will mess up. What counts is learning from your mistakes and getting back up when life has knocked you down.

  Shawn Johnson

  Perseverance, Mistake, Gymnastics

  Shawn Johnson (2012). “Winning Balance: What I’ve Learned So Far about Love, Faith, and Living Your Dreams”, p.62, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Business is always a struggle. There are always obstacles and competitors. There is never an open road, except the wide road that leads to failure. Every great success has always been achieved by fight. Every winner has scars.The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will-power to develop themselves. So choose to be among the few today.

  Chris Kirubi

  Moving On, Success, Perseverance

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• When life takes the wind out of your sails, it is to test you at the oars.

  Robert Breault

  Inspirational, Life, Moving On

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• When you've got something to prove, there's nothing greater than a challenge.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Inspirational, Courage, Perseverance

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• I didn't feel good today- little things here and there- but that's the nature of this game. You just keep pushing, being mentally and physically ready. Some days are better than others, but even if you don't feel so good, you get yourself going.

  Mike Matheny

  Life, Motivational, Baseball

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• I have no Napoleonic dream. I'm just hard-working and pragmatic.

  Roman Abramovich

  Motivational, Dream, Perseverance

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• A failure is like fertilizer; it stinks to be sure, but it makes things grow faster in the future.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Funny, Success

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• But hope has an astonishing resilience and strength. Its very persistence in our hearts indicates that it is not a tonic for wishful thinkers but the ground on which realists stand.

  Kathleen Norris

  Heart, Resilience, Realist

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• Sheer persistence is the difference between success and failure.

  Donald Trump

  Motivational, Success, Life Lesson

  Donald J. Trump, Tony Schwartz (2009). “Trump: The Art of the Deal”, p.147, Ballantine Books

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• The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Determination

  Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

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• If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

  Samuel Johnson

  Motivational, Perseverance, Determination

  Samuel Johnson (1834). “The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia: A Tale”, p.14

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• Our levels of desire, patience, persistence, and confidence end up playing a much larger role in success than sheer reasoning powers. Feel motivated and energized, we can overcome almost anything. Feeling bored and restless, our minds shut off and we become increasingly passive.

  Robert Greene

  Bored, Feelings, Mind

  Robert Greene (2012). “Mastery”, p.26, Profile Books

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• Improvement of one's economic position is helped more by cool persistence than by hot enthusiasm.

  William Feather

  Hot, Enthusiasm, Improvement

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• The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball

  Vince Lombardi (2012). “What it Takes to be Number One”, p.70, Thomas Nelson Inc

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  Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Vigilance in watching opportunity, tact and daring in seizing upon opportunity, force and persistence in crowding opportunity to its utmost of possible achievement - these are the martial virtues which must command success

  Austin Phelps

  Inspirational, Opportunity, Goal

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• From the hindsight of history George Washington seems larger than life, more statuesque than man. Too bad! Washington's greatness as a leader was courage under fire and persistence in the face of obstacles. Yet even he at times doubted himself. But he put those doubts aside and forged ahead, convinced of his noble purpose.

  John Baldoni

  Greatness, Men, Leader

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• If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.

  Isaac Asimov

  Inspirational, Rejection, Talent

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• The people who get what they’re after are very often the ones who just stick around long enough.

  Austin Kleon

  Long, People, Sticks

  Austin Kleon (2014). “Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered”, p.183, Workman Publishing

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• There is genius in persistence. It conquers all opposers. It gives confidence. It annihilates obstacles. Everybody believes in a determined man. People know that when he undertakes a thing, the battle is half won, for his rule is to accomplish whatever he sets out to do.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Confidence, Perseverance, Believe

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