Perseverance Quotes

• If an unusual necessity forces us onward, a surprising thing occurs. The fatigue gets worse up to a certain point, when, gradually or suddenly, it passes away and we are fresher than before!

  

  William James
  • Force
  • Certain
  • Unusual

• My middle name really is perseverance. I've always believed that I had talent, even when I felt like a very inferior sort of person, which I spent a lot of time living my life feeling that I wasn't worthy. But even then I knew that I had something special, and maybe that's what it takes. Maybe people need to have that kind of particular core driving them. But I felt I had talent.

  

  Rita Moreno
  • People
  • Kind
  • Feelings

• God grants victory to perseverance.

  

  Simon Bolivar
  • Victory
  • Perseverance
  • Grants

• 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

• 'Howard The Duck' has a lot of fans, and usually when they come up to me, I just think they're the coolest. Because it takes a lot of strength, a lot of perseverance to love 'Howard the Duck.'

  

  Lea Thompson
  • Up
  • Perseverance

• 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

• Persistence is the great measure of individual human character.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Great
  • Character
  • Humans

• Now then, you of noble mind, who love this profession, come at once to art and accept these precepts: enthusiasm , reverence, obedience, and perseverance. As soon as you can, place yourself under the guidance of a master, and remain with him as long as possible.

  

  Cennino Cennini
  • Long
  • Mind
  • Art

• In junior high school, I learned that I could be good at school. I remember liking the freedom to choose classes and the pleasure of learning and doing well. My perseverance and love of reading had somehow allowed me to overcome many disadvantages of dyslexia, and I read a lot of books for pleasure.

  

  Carol W. Greider
  • Good
  • School
  • Remember

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Persistence is self-discipline in action.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Action
  • Discipline
  • Persistence

• 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

• The longing to behold this pre-established harmony of phenomena and theoretical principles, is the source of the inexhaustible patience and perseverance with which Planck has devoted himself ...

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Patience
  • Harmony
  • Principles

• 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

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

  

  Cyrus McCormick
  • Business
  • Success
  • Perseverance

• Perseverance is more than endurance. It is endurance combined with absolute assurance and certainty that what we are looking for is going to happen.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Perseverance
  • Endurance
  • Assurance

• To succeed, we must have the will to succeed, we must have stamina, determination, backbone, perseverance, self-reliance, and faith.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Faith
  • Self
  • Determination

• Practice is a talent. Perseverance is a talent. Hard work is a talent.

  

  Abhinav Bindra
  • Practice
  • Talent
  • Perseverance

• 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

• I am thankful for the adversities, which have crossed my pathway, for they taught me tolerance, sympathy, self-control, perseverance and some other virtues I might never have known.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Control
  • Tolerance
  • Thankful

• You may get skinned knees and elbows, but it's worth it if you score a spectacular goal.

  

  Mia Hamm
  • Goal
  • Score
  • Knees

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