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• Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one’s own genes in the generations to follow.

  Lewis Thomas

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Persistence, Economics

• My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.

  Bjorn Rune Borg

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Persistence

• As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.

  Denis Waitley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Persistence

• Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

  Colin Luther Powell

  Topics in Failure, Perfection, Success, Work

  Tags in Learning, Loyalty, Persistence

• What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Topics in Inspirational, Power

  Tags in Persistence, Exists, Exactly, Determination

• The art of love is largely the art of persistence.

  Albert Ellis

  Topics in Art, Love

  Tags in Persistence, Largely

• Education will not take the place of persistence the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘press on’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Topics in Education

  Tags in Persistence, Determination

• 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 derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘press on’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Persistence, Perseverance, Talent, Determination

• Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Topics in Soul

  Tags in Persistence, Permanence, Things, Weak, Strong

• The most essential factor is persistence – the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.

  James Whitcomb Riley

  Tags in Persistence

• Never give up.

  Nancy Kerrigan

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Persistence, Motivation

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

  John Quincy Adams

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Persistence, Patience, Courage, Difficulties

• E. M. Forster never gets any further than warming the teapot. He’s a rare fine hand at that. Feel this teapot. Is it not beautifully warm? Yes, but there ain’t going to be no tea.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Persistence, Readiness

• In this world, there is nothing softer or thinner than water. But to compel the hard and unyielding, it has no equal. That the weak overcomes the strong, that the hard gives way to the gentle — this everyone knows. Yet no one asks accordingly.

  Lao Tzu

  Topics in Kindness

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• Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Topics in Commitment, Effort

  Tags in Persistence, Courage

• The best way out is always through.

  Robert Frost

  Topics in Failure

  Tags in Persistence, Courage

• If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.

  W. C. Fields

  Topics in Humor, Success

  Tags in Persistence, Again

• Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.

  Jane Addams

  Topics in Effort

  Tags in Persistence

• For every failure, there’s an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Topics in Commitment, Failure

  Tags in Persistence, Creativity

• Arriving at one point is the starting point to another.

  John Dewey

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Persistence