Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

George Carlin

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

Francis Bacon

In one and the same fire, clay grows hard and wax melts.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

I give you points for persistence, but you lose a few for being slow on the uptake. (Rae)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Success is when persistence meets preparation.

Nora Ephron

I have for many years been puzzled by the persistence of Hugh Hefner. Why is he still here?

Achievement does not require extraordinary ability. Achievement comes from ordinary abilities applied with extraordinary persistence.

Michelle Malkin

As an early-and-often chronicler of Chicago-on-the-Potomac, I am amazed at the stubborn and clingy persistence of President Barack Obama's snowblowers in the media. See no scandal, hear no scandal, speak no scandal.

Ma Jian

In 1989, I was on Tiananmen Square with the students, living in their makeshift tents and joining their jubilant singing of the Internationale. In the two decades since, each time that I have gone back, visions from those days seem to return with increasing persistence.

Mary Kay Ash

You can eat an elephant one bit at a time.

Michael Chabon

With patience and calm, persistence and stoicism, good handwriting and careful labeling, they would meet persecution, indignity, and hardship head-on.

Ted Turner

If you never quit, you're never beaten.

Norah O'Donnell

Persistence is incredibly important. Persistence proves to the person you're trying to reach that you're passionate about something, that you really want something.

Marcus Buckingham

Spend the most time with your best people. ... Talent is the multiplier. THe more energy and attention you invest in it, the greater the yield. The time you spend with your best is, quite simply, your most productive time. ... Persistence directed primarily toward your non-talents is self-destructive. ... You will reprimand yourself, berate yourself, and put yourself through all manner of contortions in an attempt to achieve the impossible.

90% of all those who fail are not actually defeated. They simply quit.

Seth Godin

Persistence isn't using the same tactics over and over. Persistence is having the same goal over and over.

David Weinberger

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.

Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work though difficult problems.

Louis Sachar

It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward.

Harvey Mackay

Make the second effort your second nature.

Napoleon Hill

Lack of persistence is one of the major causes of failure. Moreover, experience with thousands of people has proved that lack of persistence is a weakness common to the majority of men. It is a weakness which may be overcome with effort.

Napoleon Hill

You need to recognize and sweep aside certain weaknesses which stand between you and your goals. Your persistence develops into a respected, proved, progressive power.

Napoleon Hill

One thing we all know, if one does not possess PERSISTENCE, one does not achieve noteworthy success in any calling.

Napoleon Hill

Riches don't respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence.

Napoleon Hill

Persistence is the direct result of habit. The mind absorbs and becomes a part of the daily experiences upon which it feeds. Fear, the worst of all enemies, can be effectively cured by forced repetition of acts of courage.

Napoleon Hill

If the first plan which you adopt does not work successfully, replace it with a new plan; if this new plan fails to work, replace it in turn with still another, and so on, until you find a plan which does work. Right here is the point at which the majority of men meet with failure, because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

Napoleon Hill

The basis of persistence is the Power of Will.

Mahatma Gandhi

The Charkha, which is the embodiment of willing obedience and calm persistence, must therefore succeed before there is civil disobedience.

Octavia Butler

The big talent is persistence.

Norman Vincent Peale

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them.

Tony Robbins

Persistence overshadows even talent as the most valuable resource shaping the quality of life.

Les Brown

Lions don't have to roar. There is power in silence, confidence, and persistence. Those who work don't talk, and those who talk don't work. Handle your business. Measure your efforts by results. Focus your time, energy, and activity on mastering and executing a plan.

Terry Tempest Williams

Wherever we are, we can call for and create these kinds of settings for authentic dialogue. This is the seedbed of social change. In a voiced community, we all flourish. But it's not easy. Revolutionary patience and persistence is required. It can be messy, it is unpredictable, and change, especially structural change takes time - time and leadership and the will of an engaged community. What is needed? In a word, courage.