Persistence Quotes - Page 28

• That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. and the best of me is diligence.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Ordinary, Fit

  William Shakespeare (2001). “King Lear”, p.63, Classic Books Company

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• If there's any single talent a writer needs, it's persistence. If you can keep at your writing and you can learn as you write, you can tell any story you want to tell.

  Octavia Butler

  Writing, Needs, Stories

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• If you walk along the street you will encounter a number of scientific problems. Of these, about 80 per cent are insoluble, while 19½ per cent are trivial. There is then perhaps half a per cent where skill, persistence, courage, creativity and originality can make a difference. It is always the task of the academic to swim in that half a per cent, asking the questions through which some progress can be made.

  Hermann Bondi

  Creativity, Science, Skills

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• But the moment you turn a corner you see another straight stretch ahead and there comes some further challenge to your ambition.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Perseverance, Stay Strong, Ambition

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• I think you just have to keep knocking down doors, you have to keep being aggressive, and even if somebody says 'No', then you have to knock on the next door.

  Magic Johnson

  Sports, Perseverance, Thinking

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• Illegitimis non carborundum.
  Lat., Don't let the bastards grind you down.

  Joseph Stilwell

  Latin, Grind, Porridge

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• My mum used to say to me, 'Spit on yer 'ands and take a fresh 'old.' Keep going even if you have setbacks.

  Lesley Garrett

  Used, Spit, Mum

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• And every historic effort to forge a democratic project has been undermined by two fundamental realities: poverty and paranoia. The persistence of poverty generates levels of despair that deepen social conflict the escalation of paranoia produces levels of distrust that reinforce cultural division. Rae is the most explosive issue in American life precisely because it forces us to confront the tragic facts of poverty and paranoia despair, and distrust. In short, a candid examination of race matters takes us to the core of the crisis of American democracy (p. 107).

  Cornel West

  Reality, Two, Issues

  Cornel West (2017). “Race Matters: With a New Introduction”, p.107, Beacon Press

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• Difficulties will assail you only when you lack in concentration and persistence.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Concentration, Difficulty

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• There's no such thing as a lost cause, or a dead end. Through persistence, attitude, and creativity, there's always an escape route.

  Urijah Faber

  Attitude, Creativity, Mma

  FaceBook post by Urijah Faber from Oct 08, 2013

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• I started to get so many letters from unlikely people; a single mum going, "I watch your show, I'm not into survival, but I hold down four jobs and I get it when you say it's about persistence and putting a positive attitude into things during difficult times." That for me was a great liberator to realize that the show isn't about me running around, jumping off stuff and flexing muscles, it's about inspiring people. That makes me really happy.

  Bear Grylls

  Running, Jobs, Attitude

  "​I Went Camping With Bear Grylls, And Survived". Interview with Wes Siler, gizmodo.com. November 20, 2014.

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• Painted time is a different zone. This is why I don't believe that a painting - although I've been accused of it many times now - can be truly topical. A painting's physicality gives it a different persistence and a different perception.

  Luc Tuymans

  Believe, Giving, Perception

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• Whenever I look at the history of presidents I deeply admire - the one thing that I'm always struck by is persistence. It's a quality that's underrated. Being able to plough through, being able to stay buoyant in the face of challenges.

  Barack Obama

  Challenges, President, Quality

  "Mitt Romney and Barack Obama talk leadership in dueling 60 Minutes interviews". www.cbsnews.com. September 24, 2012.

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• Persistence and love of one's work is the key.

  Paul Russo

  Keys, And Love, Persistence And Love

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• If a teacher told me to revise, I thought that meant my writing was a broken-down car that needed to go to the repair shop. I felt insulted. I didn't realize the teacher was saying, 'Make it shine. It's worth it.' Now I see revision as a beautiful word of hope. It's a new vision of something. It means you don't have to be perfect the first time. What a relief!

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Beautiful, Teacher, Writing

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• My advice: Just keep movin' straight ahead. Every now and then you find yourself in a different place.

  George Carlin

  Advice, Finding Yourself, Different

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• The drive to be useful is encoded in our genes. But when we gather in very large numbers, as in the modern nation-state, we seem capable of levels of folly and self-destruction to be found nowhere else in all of nature. But if we keep at it and keep alive, we are in for one surprise after another. We can build structures for human society never seen before, thoughts never heard before, music never heard before.

  Lewis Thomas

  Self, Numbers, Alive

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• All ancient books which have once been called sacred by man, will have their lasting place in the history of mankind, and those who possess the courage, the perseverance, and the self-denial of the true miner, and of the true scholar, will find even in the darkest and dustiest shafts what they are seeking for,-real nuggets of thought, and precious jewels of faith and hope.

  Max Muller

  Perseverance, Real, Book

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• Patience and perseverance at lengthAccomplish more than anger or brute strength.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Perseverance, Brutes, Patience And Perseverance

  Jean de La Fontaine, James Michie (1979). “La Fontaine: Selected”, Viking Adult

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• We are born in this world to lose as well as to gain, to have happiness as well as misery. Enrich your mind by understanding this and improve, gaining stability thereby.

  Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

  Understanding, Mind, World

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• At every crossway on the path that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past. Let us have no fear that the fair towers of former days be sufficiently defended. The least that the most timid among us can do is not to add to the immense dead weight that nature drags along.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Past, Men, Add

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• There is a groan that unites men and women, rich and poor, in any nation. These muscle pains are "explained" in every culture, but the universal fact of this persistence must mean that no adequate therapy exists.

  Patrick David Wall

  Pain, Mean, Men

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• Successful trout fishing isn't a matter of brute force or even persistence, but something more like infiltration.

  John Gierach

  Successful, Lakes, Sea

  John Gierach (2010). “Even Brook Trout Get The Blues”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• Time and persistence has shown me that I can succeed at sharing my art with others as a musician while running my own music business. And that kind of success is as good as I could have ever wished for.

  Bradley Joseph

  Running, Art, Succeed

  "New Faces of Jazz: Bradley Joseph" by Ned Radinsky and Cicily Janus,

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• I think a mantra I always told myself is, "No matter how many times somebody pitches the ball at you, if you swing every time, eventually one of them is going to connect." Being yourself and persistence are two things that became my daily mantras, I suppose.

  Jamie Bell

  Being Yourself, Thinking, Swings

  Interview with Robert Pattinson, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 20, 2015.

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