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Quotes about Persistence

Think of this: the morning glory has been blossoming for so long without permission that in some gardens it is no longer censored.  What does that tell you?

Anne Pitkin
Source: Cries of The Spirit, Page: 33-34 (from Blue Morning Glory
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Keep walking, though there’s no place to get to.
Don’t try to see through the distances.
That’s not for human beings.
Move within, but don’t move the way fear makes you move.

Mevlana Jelalu'ddin Rumi : Persian sufi mystic
Mevlana Rumi (1207 - 1273)
Source: The Illuminated Rumi, Page: 31
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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

Robert Lee Frost : American poet, winner of Pulitzer prize in 1923, '30, '36, & '42
Robert Frost
Source: Civilization's Quotations: Life's Ideal
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The dream was always running ahead of one. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was a miracle.

Anaïs Nin : American-French writer
Anais Nin (1903 - 1977)
Source: Quotable Women - A Celebration
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There's a myth that all you need to do is outline your vision and prove it's right—then, quite suddenly, people will line up and support you.

In fact, the opposite is true. Remarkable visions and genuine insight are always met with resistance. And when you start to make progress, your efforts are met with even more resistance. Products, services, career paths... whatever it is, the forces for mediocrity will align to stop you, forgiving no errors and never backing down until it's over.

If it were any other way, it would be easy. And if it were any other way, everyone would do it and your work would ultimately be devalued. The yin and yang are clear: without people pushing against your quest to do something worth talking about, it's unlikely it would be worth the journey. Persist.

Seth Godin : Gaia Explorer
Seth Godin
Source: The Forces of Mediocrity: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/03/the-forces-of-m.html
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It is always to early to quit.

Norman Vincent Peale : American pastor, author of The Power of Positive Thinking in 1952
Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)
 
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"You will miss 100% of the shots you never take". ~ Wayne Gretzky 
"Decide today that your goals are worth shooting for". ~ Della Credicott

Wayne Gretzky (1961 - )
 
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Persistence Persistence Persistence. With the wind kissing my face and the ground supplying the grace / There is very little to impede the need. The need to succeed / Standing alone I discovered the reason for heart / For there stood the enemy. Wishing to stop me before I start / They will hold your ankles. Pull you down by the wrists / They will kick, bite, and push. They will-will resist / With little life left to see. Steady came my plea / For as long as I am me. I will-will persist

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When you look at the accomplishments of accomplished people and you say, "Boy, that must have been really hard," you know, when you look at something that looks hard, that was probably easy. And conversely, when you look at something that looks easy, that was probably hard. And so you're never going to know which is which until you actually go and do it. So just go and do it, try it, learn from it. You'll fail at some things, that's a learning experience that you need so that you can take that on to the next experience. And don't let people who you may respect and who you believe know what they're talking about, don't let them tell you it can't be done, because often they will tell you it can't be done, and it's just because they don't have the courage to try.

Pierre Omidyar : Gaia Child
Pierre Omidyar
Source: Academy of Achievement: Pierre Omidyar Interview: http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/omi0int-1
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A vision not lived remains only a dream…

Terrill Welch
Source: "Your Blooming Success!" article, copyright Terrill Welch - A Woman behind Women 2006
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Let your mistakes be a comma, and not a period.

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Every Warrior of the Light has felt afraid of going into battle.
Every Warrior of the Light has, at some time in the past, lied or betrayed someone.
Every Warrior of the Light has trodden a path that was not his.
Every Warrior of the Light has suffered for the most trivial of reasons.
Every Warrior of the Light has, at least once, believed he was not a Warrior of the Light.
Every Warrior of the Light has failed in his spiritual duties.
Every Warrior of the Light has said 'yes' when he wanted to say 'no.'
Every Warrior of the Light has hurt someone he loved.
That is why he is a Warrior of the Light, because he has been through all this and yet has never lost hope of being better than he is.

Paulo Coelho : author of The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho
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The same rain that wears down stone, can refresh each of us.

Risto Rein
 
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I seek the truth...it is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance that does harm.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus : Roman Emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
Marcus Aurelius (121 - 180)
Source: Meditations
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I seek the truth...it is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance that does harm.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus : Roman Emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
Marcus Aurelius (121 - 180)
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Energy and persistence conquer all things.

Benjamin Franklin : American entrepreneur, statesman, scientist & philosopher
Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
 
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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 : American personal development expert
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Some of my cousins who had the great advantage of University education used to tease me with arguments to prove that nothing has any existence except what we think of it. . . . These amusing mental acrobatics are all right to play with. They are perfectly harmless and perfectly useless. . . . I always rested on the following argument. . . We look up to the sky and see the sun. Our eyes are dazzled and our senses record the fact. So here is this great sun standing apparently on no better foundation than our physical senses. But happily there is a method, apart altogether from our physical senses, of testing the reality of the sun. It is by mathematics. By means of prolonged processes of mathematics, entirely separate from the senses, astronomers are able to calculate when an eclipse will occur. They predict by pure reason that a black spot will pass across the sun on a certain day. You go and look, and your sense of sight immediately tells you that their calculations are vindicated. So here you have the evidence of the senses reinforced by the entirely separate evidence of a vast independent process of mathematical reasoning. We have taken what is called in military map-making "a cross bearing." . . . When my metaphysical friends tell me that the data on which the astronomers made their calculations, were necessarily obtained originally through the evidence of the senses, I say, "no." They might, in theory at any rate, be obtained by automatic calculating-machines set in motion by the light falling upon them without admixture of the human senses at any stage. When it is persisted that we should have to be told about the calculations and use our ears for that purpose, I reply that the mathematical process has a reality and virtue in itself, and that once discovered it constitutes a new and independent factor. I am also at this point accustomed to reaffirm with emphasis my conviction that the sun is real, and also that it is hot - in fact hot as Hell, and that if the metaphysicians doubt it they should go there and see.

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill : British prime minister during World War II, winner of Nobel Prize for literature 1953
Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
Source: Winston S. Churchill, My Early Life, Fontana, London, 1972, pp 123-124.
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A Winner's Blueprint for Achievement BELIEVE while others are doubting. PLAN while others are playing. STUDY while others are sleeping. DECIDE while others are delaying. PREPARE while others are daydreaming. BEGIN while others are procrastinating. WORK while others are wishing. SAVE while others are wasting. LISTEN while others are talking. SMILE while others are frowning. COMMEND while others are criticizing. PERSIST while others are quitting.

William Arthur Ward
 
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Keep your mind on your objective, and persist until you succeed. Study, think and plan.

W. Clement Stone (1902 - )
 
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At the timberline where the storms strike with the most fury, the sturdiest trees are found.

Hudson Taylor (1832 - 1905)
Source: The Pebble and the Tower‎ - Page 179 by David J. Scott quoting Hudson Taylor
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Can't accept - you reject changes around you You persist to resist anything new Rationalize with some lies your dated views The state you're in you got nothing to win but everything to lose

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Success comes with heartfelt persistence.

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Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.

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overcoming challenges 1. Knowledge of self 2. Knowledge of others 3. Desire to work 4. Desire to learn 5. Ability to say :Yes" and "No" 6. Ability to pick friends 7. Turn back on bad advice 8. Recognize inner beauty 9. Persistence 10. Avoid temptation

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Persistence may be the key to success, but the key to failure . . . is trying to please everybody.

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Persistence gives confidence and continued right mental attitude followed by consistent action will bring success. When you have that knowing inside of you, fear has vanished and the obstruction to a life of all good removed.

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Anything which is not directly observed tends to persist.

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We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.

Tobias Wolff
Source: Pharaoh’s Army (Knopf)
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"Softly, softly, catchee monkey," is the West African rendering of a very valuable precept. An awful lot of men fail through lack of patient persistence.

Sir Robert Baden-Powell (1857 - 1941)
Source: Lessons from the varsity of life
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