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Persistence Quotes by Famous Authors
1.
“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
2.
“If at first you don’t succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.”
Steven Wright
3.
“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
4.
“Others’ success will generate massive self-doubt every morning when you get up. Get up anyway.”
Ankur Warikoo
5.
“A pro is the amateur who showed up every day!”
Ankur Warikoo
6.
“Persistence isn’t a one-day miracle. It is a conscious choice translated into habit.”
Ankur Warikoo
7.
“The hardest part about life is not the start, it's the stay.”
Ankur Warikoo
8.
“It takes courage to choose a hard path. It takes even more courage to change that path, if it doesn't work.”
Ankur Warikoo
9.
“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
10.
“It is crazy how far you can go without stopping, if you love what you do.”
Ankur Warikoo
11.
“The reason it needs motivation, is because you do not feel progress when you do it.”
Ankur Warikoo
12.
“The pro is the amateur who simply showed up every day.”
Ankur Warikoo
13.
“To succeed in this world, you have to change all the time.”
Sam Walton
14.
“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
15.
“I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.”
Sam Walton
16.
“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
17.
“And like most other overnight successes, it was about twenty years in the making. Of.”
Sam Walton
18.
“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
19.
“I knew the door I wanted. I knocked.”
V.S. Naipaul
20.
“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
21.
“If diving once does not bring you pearls, you need not therefore conclude that the sea is without them.”
Ramakrishna
22.
“Rather than having small smart tricks to get by, focus on holding on and persevering.”
Jack Ma
23.
“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
24.
“Don’t disarrange my circles!”
Pythagoras
25.
“The drop hollows out the stone not by strength, but by constant falling.”
Plutarch
26.
“Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.”
Plutarch
27.
“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
28.
“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
29.
“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
30.
“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
31.
“If your current get-rich project fails, take what you learned and try something else. Keep repeating until something lucky happens. The universe has plenty of luck to go around; you just need to keep your hand raised until it's your turn. It helps to see failure as a road and not a wall.”
Scott Adams
32.
“Before 'Dilbert,' I Tried To Become A Computer Programmer. In The Early Days Of Computing, I Bought This Big, Heavy, Portable Computer For My House. I Spent Two Years Nights And Weekends Trying To Write Games That I Thought I Would Sell. Turns Out I'm Not That Good A Programmer, So That Was Two Years That Didn't Work Out.”
Scott Adams
33.
“Persistence is useful, but there’s no point in being an idiot about it.”
Scott Adams
34.
“I have to finish it in order to know whether it deserves to survive.”
Leonard Cohen
35.
“One is distracted by this notion that there is such an thing as inspiration, that it comes fast and easy. And some people are graced by that style. I’m not. So I have to work as hard as any stiff to come up with my payload.”
Leonard Cohen
36.
“I never had the sense that there was an end: that there was a retirement or that there was a jackpot.”
Leonard Cohen
37.
“You go back to the gym and you just do it again and again until you get it right.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger
38.
“It is difficult to strike a match against a crumbling stone.”
Anton Chekhov
39.
“Once a man gets a fixed idea, there’s nothing to be done.”
Anton Chekhov
40.
“What is harder than rock? What is softer than water? Yet hard rocks are hollowed out by soft water?”
Seneca
41.
“If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.”
Emile Zola
42.
“The truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.”
Emile Zola
43.
“Life may try to knock you down but be persistent with your passions – cultivate grit, resilience, tenacity and endurance success will come.”
Amit Ray
44.
“Who seeks shall find.”
Sophocles
45.
“Every great accomplishment of mankind has been preceded by an extended period, often over many years, of concentrated effort.”
Earl Nightingale
46.
“By being persistent, you’re demonstrating faith. Persistence is simply another word for faith. If you didn’t have faith, you’d never persist.”
Earl Nightingale
47.
“If a person will spend one hour a day on the same subject for five years, that person will be an expert on that subject.”
Earl Nightingale
48.
“Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal.”
Earl Nightingale
49.
“Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.”
Earl Nightingale
50.
“Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.”
Alice Walker
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