Quotes about Persistence
It is the man who carefully advances step by step...who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.
— Alexander Graham Bell
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
— Calvin Coolidge
The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.
— Alexander Graham Bell
The man who walks with God always gets to his destination.
— Henrietta Mears
The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
— Frederick Douglass
We see men who have accumulated great fortunes, but we often recognize only their triumph, overlooking the temporary defeats which they had to surmount before arriving.
— Napoleon Hill
The devil is persistent, but we must never let him set the agenda. We don't negotiate with the enemy, nor do we let him distract us from our calling in life. In the face of opposition, our answer is always the same: I am a child of God, saved by the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, and I choose to live my life by faith according to what God says is true in the power of the Holy Spirit.
— Neil Anderson
Believe, really believe, you can move a mountain, and you can. Not many people believe that they can move mountains. So, as a result, not many people do.
— David Joseph Schwartz
It's gotta feel natural. I'm always into that, and after awhile, if I am working on a song too long and trying to make something out of it that it's not... it's best just to stop and move on.
— Kurt Vile
What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
— Samuel Johnson
He had slipped, climbed, rolled, searched, walked, persevered, that is all. Such is the secret of all triumphs.
— Victor Hugo
Javert, though hideous, was not ignoble.
— Victor Hugo