Perseverance Quotes

• I'm very impressed by the imagery in the 'Apologia', which is a kind of sustained poem. It's not just a piece of apologetics of the sort you find in Jesuit literature: 'Why I came over', and so on. It's a tremendously rewarding book but requires perseverance on the part of the reader.

  

  John Cornwell
  • Why
  • Book
  • Literature

• Early intervention programs enrich adverse family environments. The largest effects of the early intervention programs are on noncognitive traits. Now, what do I mean by that? I mean perseverance, motivation, self-esteem, and hard work.

  

  James Heckman
  • Work
  • Family
  • motivation

• The movie business can be very frustrating and very circuitous; there's no straight path. You have to have tremendous perseverance, dedication and passion. You have to want it very, very badly and you have to deal with a lot of rejection.

  

  Denise Di Novi
  • Business
  • Movie
  • Passion

• Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.

  

  Plutarch
  • Up
  • Together
  • Taken

• There's not a lot of other stuff I admire about his content, but there's something about Howard Stern and his perseverance in a very difficult industry. He does tickle me in certain ways with humor.

  

  Ashleigh Banfield
  • Perseverance

• If you are not a better person tomorrow than you are today, what need have you for a tomorrow?

  

  Nachman of Breslov
  • Today
  • Needs
  • Encouragement

• From my dad I learned to be good to people, to always be honest and straightforward. I learned hard work and perseverance.

  

  Luke Bryan
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• Persistence is self-discipline in action.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Action
  • Discipline
  • Persistence

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

  

  Jocko Willink
  • Success
  • Victory
  • Perseverance

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

  

  Anderson Silva
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Age

• Boys, there ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got the raw deals. You've got to say, "I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it." It's called perseverance.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Life
  • Country
  • Bad

• My personal story has always been about perseverance and always getting up when I fall. Maybe I'm not Olympic champion, but I can teach the world about that.

  

  Jeremy Abbott
  • Up
  • World
  • Fall

• We find that people's beliefs about their efficacy affect the sorts of choices they make in very significant ways. In particular, it affects their levels of motivation and perseverance in the face of obstacles. Most success requires persistent effort, so low self-efficacy becomes a self-limiting process. In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, strung together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • People
  • Life
  • Together

• Indomitable perseverance in a business, properly understood, always ensures ultimate success.

  

  Cyrus McCormick
  • Business
  • Success
  • Perseverance

• Twelve Priceless Qualities of Success: 1. The value of time. 2. The success of perseverance. 3. The pleasure of working. 4. The dignity of simplicity. 5. The worth of character. 6. The power of kindness. 7. The influence of example. 8. The obligation of duty. 9. The wisdom of economy. 10. The virtue of patience. 11. The improvement of talent. 12. The joy of originating.

  

  Marshall Field
  • Character
  • Joy
  • Quality

• Who of us is able to read and understand and be entirely confident of the validity of his title to the land he lives on, and which he has redeemed from a state of nature by the most indefatigable industry and perseverance?

  

  William H. Wharton
  • Nature
  • Able
  • Land

• Personally, I've learned about perseverance: when you hear the word 'No,' and when you hear rejection, that it's not always final. And that timing is everything, and you have to stay the course and just keep working hard and know that, when your time comes, that it will be sweet and that it will be the perfect time.

  

  Angela Robinson
  • Time
  • Perfect
  • Sweet

• God grants victory to perseverance.

  

  Simon Bolivar
  • Victory
  • Perseverance
  • Grants

• All of my Polynesian counterparts in the NFL with roots in American Samoa understand how the values embedded in our South Pacific culture - community, hard work, perseverance, respect - contribute directly to our success.

  

  Troy Polamalu
  • Culture
  • Community
  • Values

• 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 didn't have anybody, really, no foundation in life, so I had to make my own way. Always, from the start. I had to go out in the world and become strong, to discover my mission in life.

  

  Tina Turner Ike & Tina Turner
  • World
  • Success
  • Strong

• I think that's still what the American Dream means: that with perseverance, with hard work, you can become something, that the classes won't prevent you from becoming, that there's a movement up that ladder with hard work.

  

  Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • Up
  • Work
  • American

• You need to keep having data points of progress, so even if an investor - and we've all had investors say no to us - there are times where you go back, and you keep them in the loop, and you keep telling them the progress and the perseverance you have.

  

  Payal Kadakia
  • Progress
  • Perseverance

• Passive perception promotes pessimism; Persistent perseverance promises prosperity

  

  Yatin Patel
  • Promise
  • Perception
  • Perseverance

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