1,034 Quotes About Persistence

Lack of persistence is one of the major causes of failure. Moreover, experience with thousands of people has proved that lack of persistence is a weakness common to the majority of men. It is a weakness which may be overcome with effort.

You need to recognize and sweep aside certain weaknesses which stand between you and your goals. Your persistence develops into a respected, proved, progressive power.

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

One thing we all know, if one does not possess PERSISTENCE, one does not achieve noteworthy success in any calling.

[Robinson Crusoe] is the true prototype of the British colonist. The whole Anglo-Saxon spirit is in Crusoe: the manly independence, the unconscious cruelty, the persistence, the slow yet efficient intelligence, the sexual apathy, the calculating taciturnity.

My message to you all is of hope, courage and confidence. Let us mobilize all our resources in a systematic and organized way and tackle the grave issues that confront us with grim determination and discipline worthy of a great nation.

What we resist persists.

Don't stop trying, learning, fighting, experimenting, doing, until the miracle happens.

Success is when persistence meets preparation.