Quotes about Persistence
I have got a self-confidence that I have the ability but felt I was not being lucky and was an unlucky person.
— Michail Antonio
Research is so unpredictable. There are periods when nothing works and all your experiments are a disaster and all your hypotheses are wrong.
— Francis Collins
I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.
— Abraham Lincoln
Just because Fate doesn't deal you the right cards, it doesn't mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.
— Les Brown
All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
— Babe Ruth
I've been through a lot. I've had so many ups and downs in my career. I think a lot of it is you just have to be the same guy every day.
— Ryan Fitzpatrick
A pearl never loses its value, not even when covered with dirt.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
You can switch off all the lights, but that won't stop the sun from rising.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
There is no magic to achievement. It's really about hard work, choices, and persistence.
— Michelle Obama
Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
— Booker T. Washington
Everybody is looking for instant success, but it doesn't work that way. You build a successful life one day at a time.
— Lou Holtz
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
— Vince Lombardi