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Inspirational Quotes About Persistence

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Index_card_top “Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”
 
John R. Wooden (born 1910);
Basketball Coach, Author
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Index_card_top “It ain't about how hard you can hit. Its about how hard you can get hit, and how much you can take, and keep moving forward.”
 
Rocky Balboa - Quote From The Rocky Balboa Movie.


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“A man may fight fiercely to hold his own in business; but he does not need to fight to get ahead of someone in the elevator, or up the car steps, or at the post office window. And no matter how strong competition is, business and personal courtesy make it easier and pleasanter for everybody.”
 
William H. Hamby (1791-1870);
Author


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Index_card_top “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.”
 
Robert J. Collier (1876-1918);
Writer
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Index_card_top “If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.”
 
Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933);
30th Us President
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Index_card_top “Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and Determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan “Press On” has solved and will always solve the problems of the human race.”
 
Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933);
30th Us President
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Index_card_top “I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.”
 
Jimmy Dean (born 1928);
Musician, Entrepreneur


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Index_card_top “I haven't failed. I've found 10,000 ways that don't work.”
 
Thomas Edison (1847-1931);
Inventor, Businessman
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Index_card_top “I think and think for months and years, ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.”
 
Albert Einstein (1879-1955);
Theoretical Physicist, Philosopher, Nobel Prize Winner
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Index_card_top “Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others let go.”
 
William Feather -


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Index_card_top “Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.”
 
F. Scott Fiztgerald (1896-1940);
Novelist, Screenwriter
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Index_card_top “Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.”
 
Malcolm S. Forbes (1919-1990);
Publisher
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Index_card_top “Energy and persistence conquer all things.”
 
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790);
Politician, Writer, Scientist
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Index_card_top “I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot...and I missed. I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And thats precisely why I succeed.”
 
Michael Jordan (born 1963);
Retired Professional Basketball Player, Businessman
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Index_card_top “Your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.”
 
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865);
16th U.S. President
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Index_card_top “Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.”
 
James Michener (1907-1997);
Author


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Index_card_top “One may go a long way after one is tired.”
 
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Index_card_top “The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”
 
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Index_card_top “Persistence can grind an iron beam down into a needle.”
 
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Index_card_top “You always pass failure on the way to success.”
 
Mickey Rooney (born 1920);
Actor


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Index_card_top “There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.”
 
Beverly Sills (1929-2007);
Opera Soprano


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Index_card_top “Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”
 
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1886);
Author
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Index_card_top “Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
 
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941);
Poet, Playwright, Essayist
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Index_card_top “Never consider the possibility of failure; as long as you persist, you will be successful.”
 
Brian Tracy (born 1944);
Motivational Author
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Index_card_top “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.”
 
Dennis Waitley (born 1933);
Writer
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Index_card_top “Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient. ”
 
Eugene S. Wilson (1900-1981);
Dean Of Admissions At Amherst College


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Index_card_top “Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find that you have crossed the mountain.”
 
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“This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.”
 
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832);
Philosopher, Scientist, Author
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Index_card_top “I will prepare and some day my chance will come.”
 
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865);
16th U.S. President
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“When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven’t. ”
 
Thomas Edison (1847-1931);
Inventor, Businessman
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“This I do know beyond any reasonable doubt. Regardless of what you are doing, if you pump long enough, hard enough and enthusiastically enough, sooner or later the effort will bring forth the reward.”
 
Zig Ziglar (born 1926);
Motivational Author, Speaker
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“To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out the hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it- who can say this is not greatness? ”
 
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863);
Novelist
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“Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm. ”
 
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865);
16th U.S. President
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“Little drops of water wear down big stones. ”
 
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“At 211 degrees, water is hot. At 212 degrees, it boils. And with boiling water, comes steam. And with steam, you can power a train. ”
 
S.L. Parker - Motivational Author


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“One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve. ”
 
George Allen (1918-1990);
American Football Coach


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