Persistence Quotes
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more
common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will
not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Calvin Coolidge
If you live long enough, you’ll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you’ll be a better person. It’s how
you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.
Bill Clinton
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a
minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence
is the habit of victory.
Herbert Kaufman
When I meet successful people I ask 100 questions as to what they attribute their success to. It is usually the
same: persistence, hard work and hiring good people.
Kiana Tom
Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort
or try another approach is the secret of winning.
Denis Waitley
As long as we are persistent in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow.
Denis Waitley
Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.
Anthony J. D’Angelo
We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.
Helen Keller
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
Benjamin Disraeli
There is no failure except in no longer trying.
Elbert Hubbard
A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to
glorious success.
Elbert Hubbard
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see
happen.
Frank Lloyd Wright
The heights by great men reached and kept – Were not attained by sudden flight, – But they, while their
companions slept, – Were toiling upward in the night.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
Benjamin Franklin
Some give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a
victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.
Herodotus
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either
of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as
perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
Thomas Edison
Ambition is the path to success, persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.
William Eardley IV
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.
Napoleon Hill
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there
seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie
By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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