Steve Jobs Quotes

I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance... Unless you have a lot of passion about this, you're not going to survive. You're going to give it up. So you've got to have an idea, or a problem or a wrong that you want to right that you're passionate about otherwise you're not going to have the perseverance to stick it through.

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• A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation and encourages perseverance.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Purpose
  • Sacrifice
  • Innovation

• No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Success
  • Effort
  • Perseverance

• Without this tremendous passion for power, influence, and advantage which money gives, how could nature develop the highest type of man? Without this infinite longing, whence would come the discipline which industry, perseverance, tact, sagacity, and frugality give?

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Money
  • Power
  • Nature

• Acting is equal parts talent and perseverance.

  

  Zach McGowan
  • Acting
  • Talent
  • Perseverance

• In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Good
  • Long
  • Help

• Imagination, devotion, perseverance, together with divine grace, will assure your success.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Together
  • Success
  • Imagination

• Having kids and a relationship at such an early age definitely built up my hunger and perseverance to succeed.

  

  Anderson Silva
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Age

• Luck is a component that a lot of people in the arts sometimes fail to recognise: that you can have talent, perseverance, patience, but without luck you will not have a successful career.

  

  Bryan Cranston
  • People
  • Career
  • Luck

• We truly believe with hard work, dedication and perseverance, we can become the best at what we do. No one wants to become mediocre.

  

  Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Dedication

• Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.

  

  Pele
  • Work
  • Success
  • Learning

• The entrepreneurial life is one of challenge, work, dedication, perseverance, exhilaration, agony, accomplishment, failure, sacrifice, control, powerlessness... but ultimately, extraordinary satisfaction.

  

  David S. Rose
  • Life
  • Work
  • Control

• Perseverance is also key to success in any endeavor, but without perseverance in combat, there can be no victory.

  

  Jocko Willink
  • Success
  • Victory
  • Perseverance

• A 41-inch bust and a lot of perseverance will get you more than a cup of coffee - a lot more.

  

  Jayne Mansfield
  • Coffee
  • Perseverance

• I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It's a voice of pain and victory.

  

  Anthony Hamilton
  • Pain
  • Victory
  • Patience

• The stubbornness I had as a child has been transmitted into perseverance. I can let go but I don't give up. I don't beat myself up about negative things.

  

  Phylicia Rashad
  • Up
  • Perseverance

• Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

  

  John Quincy Adams
  • Patience
  • Obstacles
  • Perseverance

• I haven't knocked all the doors I need to knock down, but I can see it happening more and more. It will just take more perseverance and work.

  

  Little Simz
  • Work
  • Perseverance

• I am proud to represent people who care so deeply about their communities. Their perseverance and strength only motivates me more as their representative in Congress.

  

  Martha Roby
  • People
  • Proud
  • Perseverance

• We have to build a better education in this country. We need to step it up.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Up
  • Country
  • Education

• I have tremendous respect for teens who navigate the quagmire that is modern religion. If there is any message in my books, I want it to be that it's okay to ask questions, and it's okay to come up with a belief system all your own. Teens who change their worldviews in the face of tremendous social pressure are heroes to me.

  

  Rae Carson
  • Up
  • Change
  • Respect

• Prayer implies surrender to the will of the giver, demand preconceives a right to receive. Pray, my dear, and you shall receive.

  

  Zeina
  • Prayer

• Any artist who respects himself ought to be, and in every sense of the term, an emigre.

  

  Witold Gombrowicz
  • Artist
  • Term
  • Ought

• I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance... Unless you have a lot of passion about this, you're not going to survive. You're going to give it up. So you've got to have an idea, or a problem or a wrong that you want to right that you're passionate about otherwise you're not going to have the perseverance to stick it through.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Perseverance
  • Entrepreneurs