Category Detail for Persistence (16 Quotes)

  Author Category Subject Content
1 Ray Kroc Business Persistence Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education alone will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
2 Samuel Johnson Business Persistence Few things are impossible to dilligence and skill...Great works are performed, not by strength, but perseverance.
3 Thomas Jefferson General Persistence I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have it.
4 Francis Bacon General Persistence A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
5 Robert Frost General Persistence The best way out is always through.
6 Edmund Burke General Persistence Our patience will achieve more than our force.
7 Josh Billings General Persistence Consider the postage stamp: Its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.
8 Confucius General Persistence Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
9 W.H. Murray General Persistence Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
10 W.C. Field General Persistence Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim up stream.
11 C. E. Welch General Persistence Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the "impossible," we very soon would find the truth of that old saying that nothing is impossible...Abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.
12 Diane Westlake General Persistence Whatever the struggle continue the climb it may be only one step to the summit.
13 Gordon B. Hinckley Lds Persistence You have not failed until you quit trying.
14 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Literature Persistence 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.
15 Shakespeare Literature Persistence Violent fires soon burn out themselves; Small showers last long, but sudden storms are short. Richard II Act. II Sc. 1
16 Babe Ruth Sports Persistence It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.