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Persistence Quotes by Famous Authors
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“The only way I could get my old CD into stores is if I took one in and leave it. “Sir, you forgot this.” “No, I did not. That is for sale. Please alphabetize it.””
Mitch Hedberg
Music
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CD
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Stores
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Humor
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Persistence
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“If at first you don’t succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.”
Steven Wright
Failure
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Persistence
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Evidence
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Irony
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Humor
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“I didn't tell any of my friends that I wanted to be a comedian, because I was superstitious. I thought if I told people, it wouldn't happen. So I kept it all in my head for years and years.”
Steven Wright
Aspirations
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Comedy
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Fear
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Persistence
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Superstition
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“Others’ success will generate massive self-doubt every morning when you get up. Get up anyway.”
Ankur Warikoo
Self-doubt
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Success
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Resilience
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Effort
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Persistence
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“A pro is the amateur who showed up every day!”
Ankur Warikoo
Consistency
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Effort
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Growth
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Professionalism
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Persistence
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“Persistence isn’t a one-day miracle. It is a conscious choice translated into habit.”
Ankur Warikoo
Persistence
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Habit
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Choice
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Effort
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Consistency
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“The hardest part about life is not the start, it's the stay.”
Ankur Warikoo
Life
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Persistence
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Challenge
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Effort
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Endurance
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“It takes courage to choose a hard path. It takes even more courage to change that path, if it doesn't work.”
Ankur Warikoo
Courage
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Choice
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Adaptability
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Persistence
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Resilience
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“We don't have to win everyday. We just have to win once. But for that, we might have to lose everyday, until the day we win!”
Ankur Warikoo
Persistence
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Victory
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Failure
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Effort
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Resilience
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“It is crazy how far you can go without stopping, if you love what you do.”
Ankur Warikoo
Passion
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Persistence
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Effort
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Progress
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Love
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“The reason it needs motivation, is because you do not feel progress when you do it.”
Ankur Warikoo
Motivation
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Progress
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Effort
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Persistence
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Feeling
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“The pro is the amateur who simply showed up every day.”
Ankur Warikoo
Consistency
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Effort
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Growth
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Persistence
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Professionalism
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“To succeed in this world, you have to change all the time.”
Sam Walton
Change
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Success
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Adaptability
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Growth
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Persistence
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“After a lifetime of swimming upstream, I am convinced that one of the real secrets to Wal-mart’s phenomenal success has been that very tendency.”
Sam Walton
Nonconformity
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Success
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Wal-Mart
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Persistence
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Conviction
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“I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.”
Sam Walton
Resilience
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Effort
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Improvement
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Persistence
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Recovery
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“I guess in all my years, what I heard more than anything else was: a mere town cannot support a discount store for very long.”
Sam Walton
Doubt
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Retail
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Persistence
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Challenge
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Experience
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“And like most other overnight successes, it was about twenty years in the making. Of.”
Sam Walton
Success
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Time
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Effort
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Persistence
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Reality
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“Be prepared for a lot of folks to wave you down and tell you you’re headed the wrong way. I guess in all my years, what I heard more often than anything was: a town of less than 50,000 population cannot support a discount store for very long.”
Sam Walton
Persistence
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Criticism
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Retail
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Population
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Doubt
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“I knew the door I wanted. I knocked.”
V.S. Naipaul
Determination
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Opportunity
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Persistence
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Action
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Choice
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“The ego is like the root of a banyan tree, you think you have removed it all then one fine morning you see a sprout flourishing again.”
Ramakrishna
Ego
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Tree
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Growth
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Awareness
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Persistence
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“If diving once does not bring you pearls, you need not therefore conclude that the sea is without them.”
Ramakrishna
Persistence
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Effort
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Reward
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Patience
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Wisdom
22.
“Rather than having small smart tricks to get by, focus on holding on and persevering.”
Jack Ma
Perseverance
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Persistence
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Resilience
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Success
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Strategy
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“In carrying out e-commerce, the most important thing is to keep doing what you are doing right now with passion, to keep it up.”
Jack Ma
E-commerce
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Passion
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Persistence
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Business
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Success
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“Don’t disarrange my circles!”
Pythagoras
Order
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Precision
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Focus
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Persistence
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Principle
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“The drop hollows out the stone not by strength, but by constant falling.”
Plutarch
Persistence
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Patience
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Effort
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Determination
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Change
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“Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.”
Plutarch
Persistence
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Patience
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Effort
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Resilience
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Time
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“If you have a reasonable system for pursuing success, it can survive a lot of face-plants along the way. That knowledge makes success seem accessible. If you think successful people have some sort of superpower or special connections, why try?”
Scott Adams
Success
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Persistence
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Strategy
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Growth
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Mindset
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“I'm a poor artist. Through brute force, I brought myself up to mediocre. I've never taken a writing class, but I can write okay.”
Scott Adams
Art
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Writing
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Learning
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Self-improvement
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Persistence
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“If you drill down on any success story, you always discover that luck was a huge part of it. You can't control luck, but you can move from a game with bad odds to one with better odds. You can make it easier for luck to find you. The most useful thing you can do is stay in the game.”
Scott Adams
Success
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Luck
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Persistence
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Mindset
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Opportunity
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“If you’re going to create, create a lot. Creativity is not like playing the slot machines, where failure to win means you go home broke. With creativity, if you don’t win, you’re usually no worse off than if you hadn’t played.”
Scott Adams
Creativity
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Failure
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Persistence
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Success
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Learning
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