Persistence famous quotes

But the most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly and with unflagging attention. It must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over. Here, as so often in this world, persistence is the first and most important requirement for success.
-- Adolf Hitler

#Persistence #Yield #Mind

Persistence is the soul of a champion.
-- Alan Webb

#Persistence #Soul #Champion

Only the [Catholic] Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler’s campaign for suppressing truth. I never had any special interest in the Church before, but now I feel a great affection and admiration because the Church alone has had the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual truth and moral freedom. I am forced thus to confess that what I once despised I now praise unreservedly.
-- Albert Einstein

#Persistence #Catholic #Intellectual

Persistence is the most powerful force on earth, it can move mountains.
-- Albert Einstein

#Powerful #Moving #Persistence

Life is just the same as learning to swim. Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!
-- Alfred Adler

#Mistake #Persistence #Swim

The future of the world depends on the full restoration of the Sacred Feminine in all its tenderness, passion, divine ferocity, and surrendered persistence.
-- Andrew Harvey

#Passion #Persistence #Restoration

I believe persistence is a major key to success in any great endeavor. I want to remind folks to PERSIST in whatever they are tackling at the moment!
-- Andy Andrews

#Believe #Persistence #Keys

You are desperate to communicate, to edify or entertain, to preserve moments of grace or joy or transcendence, to make real or imagined events come alive. But you cannot will this to happen. It is a matter of persistence and faith and hard work. So you might as well just go ahead and get started.
-- Anne Lamott

#Real #Hard Work #Persistence

The only things you learn are the things you tame
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#Determination #Persistence

While no road is ever straight, dedication and persistence will always lead you to your dreams.
-- Arte Moreno

#Dream #Persistence #Dedication

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

#Persistence #Opportunity #Goal

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

#Persistence #Challenges #President

I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.
-- Ben Hogan

#Golf #Persistence #Games

Little strokes fell great oaks.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Business #4th Of July #Persistence

Tim Price continues to explore and develop his deeply personal approach to music. Through the years his persistence, determination and passion has enabled him to create a stellar reputation as a multiple woodwind master, composer, producer, author and last but not least educator. Tim is one of the best musicians active today and I'm happy to say he's my friend....
-- Bennie Maupin

#Determination #Passion #Persistence

No great achievement is possible without persistent work.
-- Bertrand Russell

#Persistence #Achievement #Persistent

TV, and the culture it anchors, masks and drowns out the subtle and vital information contact with the real world once provided. There are lessons, enormous lessons, lessons that may be crucial to the planet's persistence as a green and diverse place and also to the happiness of it's inhabitants-that nature teaches and TV can't.
-- Bill McKibben

#Real #Persistence #Anchors

My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.
-- Bjorn Borg

#Giving Up #Fighting #Persistence

My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match.
-- Bjorn Borg

#Being Strong #Giving Up #Persistence

I'm still waiting for perfection. In the meantime, I'll settle for persistence
-- Bo Ryan

#Basketball #Persistence #Perfection

Persistence is a unique mental strength; a strength that is essential to combat the fierce power of the repeated rejections and numerous other obstacles that sit in waiting and are all part of winning in a fast-moving, ever-changing world.
-- Bob Proctor

#Moving #Persistence #Winning

Whatever you accomplish in a lifetime will be in direct proportion to the intensity and persistence of your faith
-- Bob Proctor

#Persistence #Lifetime #Intensity

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 #Persistence

Persistence is the iron quality of success; if you persist long enough you must eventually succeed
-- Brian Tracy

#Persistence #Iron #Long

Persistence is the great measure of individual human character.
-- Brian Tracy

#Perseverance #Character #Persistence

Perhaps the greatest display of self-discipline is persisting when the going gets tough. Persistence is self-discipline in action.
-- Brian Tracy

#Perseverance #Persistence #Self

Persistence is self-discipline in action.
-- Brian Tracy

#Perseverance #Persistence #Self

Implement your plans with courage and persistence. Have complete faith in your ability to succeed and never, ever give up.
-- Brian Tracy

#Success #Giving Up #Persistence

Persistence, persistence, and persistence. The Power can be created and maintained through daily practice - continuous effort.
-- Bruce Lee

#Persistence #Practice #Effort

It doesn't matter if you're good. If you're just good, you won't succeed. If you have patience and persistence and talent and that's it, you will not have a successful career as an actor. The elusive thing you need is luck.
-- Bryan Cranston

#Successful #Persistence #Careers

Poetry requires deliberate movement in its direction, a filament of faith in its persistence, receptivity to its fundamental worthwhileness. Within its unanesthetized heart there is quite a racket going on. Choices have to be made with respect to every mark. Not every mistake should be erased. Nor shall the unintelligible be left out. Order is there to be wrenched from the tangles of words. Results are impossible to measure. A clearing is drawn around the perimeter as if by a stick with a nail on the end.
-- C.D. Wright

#Mistake #Heart #Persistence

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
-- Calvin Coolidge

#Persistence #Men #World

Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
-- Calvin Coolidge

#Inspirational #Determination #Persistence

In life there is nothing more common than talent and intelligence. What is missing is passion, persistence, commitment, and dedication.
-- Calvin Coolidge

#Passion #Commitment #Persistence

I'm a big believer in persistence, don't be greedy and, above all, work hard. It's what keeps me going.
-- Caprice Bourret

#Hard Work #Persistence #Greedy

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.
-- Carl von Clausewitz

#Determination #Military #Persistence

This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation.
-- Carroll Quigley

#Fear #Persistence #Evil

Persistence is a characteristic to which success invariably surrenders.
-- Catherine Ponder

#Persistence #Surrender #Characteristics

Often, failure is success trying to be born in a bigger way, and persistence helps you to experience that greater result.
-- Catherine Ponder

#Persistence #Trying #Way

Through persistence, you can be one of those happy, victorious people who not only chases dreams, but who catches them! The persistent man also perseveres long enough for his dreams to catch up with him!
-- Catherine Ponder

#Dream #Perseverance #Persistence

To make a great dream come true, the first requirement is a great capacity to dream; the second is persistence.
-- Cesar Chavez

#Dream #Persistence #Requirements

Rugby may have many problems, but the gravest is undoubtedly that of the persistence of summer.
-- Chris Laidlaw

#Summer #Persistence #May

Were designed for persistence hunting, which is a mix of running and walking. Whats built into that kind of running is a sense of pleasure. You are designed and built and perfect for this activity, and it should be enjoyable and fun.
-- Christopher McDougall

#Running #Fun #Persistence

Persistence is the key to solving most mysteries.
-- Christopher Pike

#Persistence #Keys #Mystery

Many people in San Francisco know me, and they know my persistence.
-- Cindy Sheehan

#Persistence #San Francisco #People

I warn you, Kelsey, that I'm an extremely patient man. I've had extensive practice in waiting out the enemy. My life as a tiger has taught me that attentive persistence and focused diligence always pay off. Consider yourself forewarned, priyatama. I'm on the hunt. I've caught your scent, and I won't be thwarted in my course.
-- Colleen Houck

#Love #Persistence #Men

There's no genius behind it. It's persistence and listening to people.
-- Craig Newmark

#Persistence #People #Listening

We don't have much in the way of a business strategy. Like no business plan. Which I say to torment all my friends who are VCs or MBAs. That's always entertaining. The deal is, it's a mixture of luck and persistence.
-- Craig Newmark

#Persistence #Mba #Luck

If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do succeed.
-- Curly Howard

#Persistence #Firsts #Succeed

The foundation of the Buddha's teachings lies in compassion, and the reason for practicing the teachings is to wipe out the persistence of ego, the number-one enemy of compassion.
-- Dalai Lama

#Lying #Teaching #Persistence

The writing life requires courage, patience, persistence, empathy, openness, and the ability to deal with rejection. It requires the willingness to be alone with oneself. To be gentle with oneself. To look at the world without blinders on. To observe and withstand what one sees. To be disciplined, and at the same time, take risks. To be willing to fail - not just once, but again and again, over the course of a lifetime.
-- Dani Shapiro

#Writing #Persistence #Rejection

All I had was persistence. Turns out that's all you need...
-- Darren LaCroix

#Persistence #Needs #Turns

For many of us, conversion is an ongoing process and not a onetime event that results from a powerful or dramatic experience. Line upon line and precept upon precept, gradually and almost imperceptibly, our motives, our thoughts, our words, and our deeds become aligned with the will of God. Conversion unto the Lord requires both persistence and patience.
-- David A. Bednar

#Powerful #Persistence #Events

Negative thinking patterns can be immensely deceptive and persuasive, and change is rarely easy. But with patience and persistence, I believe that nearly all individuals suffering from depression can improve and experience a sense of joy and self-esteem once again.
-- David D. Burns

#Self Esteem #Believe #Persistence

What is important is what inspires persistence and determination- in other words what you care about.
-- David Maister

#Inspiring #Determination #Persistence

Successful charitable fund-raising has much in common with managing a business: It requires leadership, persistence, and creativity.
-- David Rockefeller

#Creativity #Successful #Persistence

The Internet is a medium only at the bit level. At the human level, it is a conversation that, because of the persistence and linkedness of pages, has elements of a world. It could only be a medium if we absolutely didn't care about it.
-- David Weinberger

#Persistence #Elements #World

Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.
-- Denis Waitley

#Inspirational #Persistence #Winning

As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
-- Denis Waitley

#Inspirational #Destiny #Persistence

I wish I could say I had some sort of master plan where one role leads to the next role, but a lot of it really is persistence and luck and being prepared when you are asked to jump on a project. There isn't any one rule that I follow. Obviously, I'll always shoot to work with the best actors, directors and filmmakers. I've been incredibly lucky to be able to do that.
-- Dermot Mulroney

#Persistence #Luck #Wish

Sheer persistence is the difference between success and failure.
-- Donald Trump

#Failure #Persistence #Differences

If you run out of ideas follow the road; you'll get there
-- Edgar Allan Poe

#Running #Persistence #Ideas

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success. There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Persistence #Effort #Trying

Franklin's illness...gave him strength and courage he had not had before. He had to think out the fundamentals of living and learn the greatest of all lessons - infinite patience and never ending persistence.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt

#Persistence #Thinking #Fundamentals

Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.
-- Elon Musk

#Giving Up #Persistence #Important

They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than to insufficient application. At the core of every true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in any achievement, and the confidence that by persistence and patience something worthwhile will be realized. Thus talent is a species of vigor.
-- Eric Hoffer

#Inspiration #Persistence #Achievement

It looks like the thing that separates out the capable students from the really successful ones is not so much their knowledge...but their persistence at something,
-- Eric Schmidt

#Successful #Persistence #Looks

After taking risk into account, do more managers than you’d see by chance outperform with persistence? Virtually every economist who studied this question answers with a resounding 'no.'
-- Eugene Fama

#Persistence #Risk #Answers

Persistence in prayer for someone whom we don't like, however much it goes against the grain to begin with, brings about a remarkable change in attitude.
-- F. F. Bruce

#Prayer #Attitude #Persistence

Saving New York City from bankruptcy is like making love to a gorilla. You don't stop when you're tired; you stop when he's tired.
-- Felix Rohatyn

#New York #Tired #Persistence

I don’t think it’s quite that simple. Some people never observe anything, Life just happens to them. They get by on little more than a kind of dumb persistence, and they resist with anger and resentment anything that might lift them out of that false serenity.
-- Frank Herbert

#Persistence #Simple #Thinking

Perseverance may be just as important as speed in the battle for the future.
-- Gary Hamel

#Perseverance #Persistence #Important

Success in any endeavor does not happen by accident. Rather, it’s the result of deliberate decisions, conscious effort, and immense persistence...all directed at specific goals.
-- Gary Ryan

#Persistence #Goal #Effort

Persistence only proves persistence-it does not prove love. The fact that a romantic pursuer is relentless doesn't mean you are special-it means he is troubled.
-- Gavin de Becker

#Mean #Persistence #Special

We shall build on. On through the cynic
-- Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy

#Persistence #Cynic

”Morale is the state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope. It is confidence and zeal and loyalty. It is elan, esprit de corps and determination.”
-- George C. Marshall

#Loyalty #Determination #Persistence

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

#Persistence #Advice #Finding Yourself

The essence of oligarchical rule is not father-to-son inheritance, but the persistence of a certain world-view and a certain way of life ... A ruling group is a ruling group so long as it can nominate its successors... Who wields power is not important, provided that the hierarchical structure remains always the same.
-- George Orwell

#Father #Son #Persistence

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted; it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in which instinct has learned nothing from experience.
-- George Santayana

#Change #Children #Persistence

You go on. You set one foot in front of the other, and if a thin voice cries out, somewhere behind you, you pretend not to hear, and keep going.
-- Geraldine Brooks

#Perseverance #Persistence #Voice

Nowhere can it rain harder and with a more tiresome persistence than in California during the brief season when it rains at all.
-- Gertrude Atherton

#Rain #Persistence #California

Irresolute men are sometimes very persistent in their undertakings, because if they give up their designs they would have to make a second resolution.
-- Giacomo Leopardi

#Giving Up #Persistence #Men

Do your best, and be a little better than you are.
-- Gordon B. Hinckley

#Persistence #Excellence #Self Improvement

There's a better way to speak out against President Putin and call out his bigotry for exactly what it is: speaking up for equal rights and educating people around the world about the persistence of homophobia. Rather than boycott, I, along with several amazing organizations including Athlete Ally and All Out, plan to use the Sochi Games as a teachable moment for the world.
-- Greg Louganis

#Athlete #Gay #Persistence

A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
-- Harvey Mackay

#Motivational #Dream #Persistence

I've known entrepreneurs who were not great salespeople, or didn't know how to code, or were not particularly charismatic leaders. But I don't know of any entrepreneurs who have achieved any level of success without persistence and determination.
-- Harvey Mackay

#Determination #Persistence #Leader

Book marketing is a skill: it takes knowledge, effort, and persistence to really be successful.
-- Heather Hart

#Book #Successful #Persistence

If we could know as intimately as we know our more immediate parents the long line of ancestors through whom the family spirit has passed on its way to us, we should probably become fatalists in face of the apparently overwhelming evidence that there is nothing in us that has not come to us from, or at least through, the Family. Family portrait galleries are a striking confirmation of the persistence of characteristics which ultimately govern the fortunes of successive generations.
-- Helen Bosanquet

#Persistence #Long #Parent

The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
-- Herbert Kaufman

#Persistence #Victory #Habit

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 #Persistence

You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.
-- Isaac Asimov

#Work #Writing #Persistence

Patience, persistence, and power to do are only acquired by work.
-- J. G. Holland

#Work #Persistence

I've been writing since I was six. It is a compulsion, so I can't really say where the desire came from; I've always had it. My breakthrough with the first book came through persistence, because a lot of publishers turned it down!
-- J. K. Rowling

#Book #Writing #Persistence

Persistence is probably the single most common quality of high achievers. They simply refuse to give up. They longer you hang in there, the greater the chance that something will happen in your favor. No matter how hard it seems, the longer you persist the more likely your success.
-- Jack Canfield

#Giving Up #Persistence #Quality

Don't do something just for the money. Money is a side effect of persistence. You persist in things you are interested in. Explore your interests. Then persist. Then enjoy all the side effects.
-- James Altucher

#Persistence #Sides #Side Effects

It’s easier to have courage and trust the process when you feel you’re making headway. Mastery is not persistence when you see a light at the end of the tunnel. True mastery is persistence when you don’t yet see the light.
-- James Arthur Ray

#Persistence #Tunnels #Light

The test of character is not persistence when you expect a light at the end of the tunnel. The true test is performance and persistence when you see no light coming.
-- James Arthur Ray

#Character #Persistence #Tunnels

I've sworn off agnosticism, which I now call cowardly atheism. I've come to the position that in the complete absence of any supporting data whatsover for the persistence of the individual in some spiritual form, it is necessary to operate under the provisional conclusion that there is no afterlife and then be ready to amend that if I find out otherwise.
-- James Cameron

#Spiritual #Persistence #Data

Great beginnings are not as important as the way one finishes.
-- James Dobson

#Wisdom #Persistence #Important

[Robinson Crusoe] is the true prototype of the British colonist. The whole Anglo-Saxon spirit is in Crusoe: the manly independence, the unconscious cruelty, the persistence, the slow yet efficient intelligence, the sexual apathy, the calculating taciturnity.
-- James Joyce

#Persistence #Independence #Apathy