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“You know, many of you kids can't relate to what it takes to get to the top rung, the top of the heap, to have success. We're looking for things that come in a minute. It just doesn't happen.”

Knows Happens Kids Success Sports Minutes Perseverance Relate Persistence

Author:Dave Winfield

“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.”

Should Kind Running Fun Perfect Pleasure Walking Activity Built Persistence Hunting Enjoyable

Author:Christopher McDougall

“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”

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Author:Walt Disney

“To abstain from the enjoyment which is in our power, or to seek distant rather than immediate results, are among the most painful exertions of the human will.”

Humans Results Painful Persistence Enjoyment Exertion Human Will

Book:Political Economy: Reprinted from the Original Edition

Source: Political Economy: Reprinted from the Original Edition

“What matters most in a child’s development, they say, is not how much information we can stuff into her brain in the first few years. What matters, instead, is whether we are able to help her develop a very different set of qualities, a list that includes persistence, self-control, curiosity, conscientiousness, grit, and self-confidence. Economists refer to these as noncognitive skills, psychologists call them personality traits, and the rest of us sometimes think of them as character.”

Source: How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character

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

People Long Enough Sticks Persistence

Book:Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

Source: Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

“Modern man is conditioned to expect instant gratification, but any success or triumph realized quickly, with only marginal effort, is necessarily shallow. Meaningful achievement takes time, hard work, persistence, patience, proper intent and self-awareness. The path to success is punctuated by failure, consolidation, and renewed effort.”

“Luck is predictable; the harder you work, the luckier you get.”

“Making the absolute best of ourselves is not an easy task. It is a pleasurable pursuit...but it requires patience, persistence, and perseverance.”

Easy Tasks Absolutes Perseverance Pursuit Persistence Easy Tasks

Author:Sarah Ban Breathnach

“The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the other will recede. What stands in your way is that you have a much too willful will. You think that what you do not do yourself does not happen.”

Thinking Way Trying Doe Happens Success Goal Learning Willing Succeed Perseverance Sake Shooting Persistence Hitting Key To Success Arrows Road To Success Recipe For Success Doings

Book:Zen

Source: Zen

“Whatever you accomplish in a lifetime will be in direct proportion to the intensity and persistence of your faith”

Direct Lifetime Accomplish Persistence Proportion Intensity

Author:Bob Proctor

“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.”

World Moving Winning Waiting Essentials Unique Obstacles Persistence Rejection Combat Fierce Mental Strength

Author:Bob Proctor

“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.”

Years Today Lasts Passion Masters Approach Musician My Friends Determination Active Reputation Producers Persistence Composer Multiple Educator Through The Years Stellar

Author:Bennie Maupin

“The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.”

Source: The Sales Advantage: How to Get It, Keep It, and Sell More Than Ever

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

Desire Wish Plans Constant Riches Persistence Definite

Book:Think, Thank, Thunk - Self-Help Collection

Source: Think, Thank, Thunk - Self-Help Collection

“I will dance and resist and dance and persist and dance. This heartbeat is louder than death.”

Inspirational Death Dance Persistence Persist Heartbeat Resisting Inspirational Dance

Author:Suheir Hammad

“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.”

“If at first you don't succeed, try hard work.”

“We are not a failure just because we fail at something. Nobody is a failure unless they quit trying!”

“Worrying gets you nowhere. If you turn up worrying about how you're going to perform, you've already lost. Train hard, turn up, run your best and the rest will take care of itself.”

“As long as hierarchy persists, as long as domination organises humanity around a system of elites, the project of dominating nature will continue to exist and inevitably lead our planet to ecological extinction.”

“Honour belongs to those who never forsake the truth even when things seem dark and grim, who try over and over again, who are never discouraged by insults, humiliation and even defeat.”

Source: Conversations With Myself

“There is one prevailing key to success. Do what you resolve to do. Then you'll be a success. If you can discipline yourself to follow through on your promises to yourself, your self-esteem goes up. Persistence is self-discipline in action. Self-discipline is the foundation of self-confidence .”

Ifs Self Action Self Esteem Keys Discipline Promise Foundation Self Confidence Esteem Persistence Resolve Self Discipline Key To Success Prevailing Follow Through Promises To Yourself

Author:Brian Tracy

“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.”

Giving Matter Hard Seems Happens Chance Common Quality Greater Giving Up Refuse Favors Persistence Persist Achiever Hang In There

Author:Jack Canfield

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

Inspirational Quality Talent Resources Valuable Persistence Quality Of Life

Author:Tony Robbins

“Well, in regards to surfing, I’ve learned that there is always another wave coming. Translated that means there is always tomorrow. No matter how badly you get caught inside, if you can just hang in there and keep paddling, the set is going to pass and there will be a lull afterwards. So don’t give up, just take your pounding, wait until the set passes, then make your move.”

“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.”

Ifs Men Firsts Doe Stills Turns Plans Failing Creating Majority Persistence

Book:Napoleon Hill Collection

Source: Napoleon Hill Collection

“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.”

Mean Doe Facts Special Prove Persistence Relentless

Book:The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals that Protect Us from Violence

Source: The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals that Protect Us from Violence

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

Doe Ability Achievement Ordinary Extraordinary Persistence

Author:Ralph Marston

“I remember as a child of eight being told by a young friend that I had killed Christ. That was news to me. It's a common experience for the Jewish young. Should later generations of Germans be burdened with the guilt arising from the profound inhumanity of their ancestors? Revenge may be sweet, but guilt is non-transferable. Still, hatreds survive with the persistence of cockroaches.”

“Two little mice fell in a bucket of cream. The first mouse quickly gave up and drowned. The second mouse, wouldn't quit. He struggled so hard that eventually he churned that cream into butter and crawled out. Gentlemen, as of this moment, I am that second mouse.”

“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.”

Feels Interest Church Moral Path Special Intellectual Praise Catholic Affection Campaigns Persistence Admiration Catholic Church Despised Special Interests Suppressing Moral Freedom

Author:Albert Einstein

“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.”

Feels Ends Light Process Easier Persistence Mastery Tunnels Have Courage Light At The End Of The Tunnel End Of The Tunnel

Author:James Arthur Ray

“The single most important route of success is persistence - never, ever give up!”

Inspirational Giving Important Giving Up Persistence Routes Never Ever Give Up

Author:Terry Matthews

“Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.”

“Rugby may have many problems, but the gravest is undoubtedly that of the persistence of summer.”

May Problem Summer Persistence Rugby

Book:Mud in Your Eye: A Worm's Eye View of the Changing World of Rugby

Source: Mud in Your Eye: A Worm's Eye View of the Changing World of Rugby

“Every obstacle yields to stern resolve.”

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Book:The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

“Constant repetition of tongue-twisters was like lifting weights for me, but patience and persistence have paid off.”

Weight Paid Patience Constant Tongue Persistence Repetition Lifting Paid Off Patience And Persistence Lifting Weights Twister

Author:Nicholas Brendon

“"Softly, softly, catchee monkey," is the West African rendering of a very valuable precept. An awful lot of men fail through lack of patient persistence.”

Men Failing West Patient Valuable Awful Persistence Monkeys Rendering

Book:Playing the Game: A Baden-Powell Compendium

Source: Playing the Game: A Baden-Powell Compendium

“When we say that the persistence of competition is ensured by fate, we mean that individual freedom is so guaranteed. The one thing to which fate binds us is liberty.”

Mean Individual Liberty Fate One Thing Competition Persistence Individual Freedom

Author:John Bates Clark

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

Important Care Inspiring Inspire Determination Persistence Professionalism

Author:David Maister

“Failure is often the line of least persistence.”

Inspirational Motivational Lines Failure Persistence

Author:Zig Ziglar

“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.”

Persons Evil Fear Activity Persistence Firm Inflation Maximum Secrecy Anonymity

Book:Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time

Source: Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time

“Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward.”

Father Brave Persistence Courageous Have Faith Be Brave Boldness Prosperous Be Courageous Leadership Courage

Author:Thomas A. Edison

“It's easy .... it's a mind that is open to everything, yet attaches to nothing ... it's called freedom that's what it is, plain and simple!”

Mind Easy Simple Acceptance Persistence Plain And Simple

Author:Gary Busey

“What is the use of merely listening to lectures? The real thing is practice.”

Real Use Action Practice Listening Persistence Lectures Real Things

Author:Ramakrishna

“The lifeblood of Christianity is not our persistence in moving toward God but God's persistence in moving toward us.”

Moving Christianity Persistence

Author:Tullian Tchividjian

“Nothing will work unless you do.”

“All great achievements require time.”

“Persistence is a characteristic to which success invariably surrenders.”

Surrender Persistence Characteristics

Author:Catherine Ponder

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