Some good quotes on persistence

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Some good quotes on persistence, especially to me these days :)

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Thomas Alva Edison

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas Alva Edison

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
Thomas Alva Edison

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Louis Pasteur

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
Benjamin Disraeli

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
Frank Lloyd Wright

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.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning - and some of them many times over - what do you find? That you can swim? Well - life is just the same as learning to swim! Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!”
Alfred Adler quotes (Austrian psychiatrist whose influential system of individual psychology introduced the term inferiority feeling, later widely and often inaccurately called inferiority complex, 1870-1937)

“Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragement, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak”
Thomas Carlyle (Scottish Historian and Essayist, leading figure in the Victorian era. 1795-1881)

“Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.”
Napoleon Hill quotes (American author, 1883-1970)

“This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes (German Playwright, Poet, Novelist and Dramatist. 1749-1832)

“When life knocks you down you have two choices- stay down or get up.”
Tom Krause ( motivational speaker, Teacher and Coach, b.1934)

“No great achievement is possible without persistent work.”
Bertrand Russell (English Logician and Philosopher 1872-1970)

Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.
Source Unknown

Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.
Napoleon Hill 1883-1970, American Speaker, Motivational Writer, ''Think and Grow Rich''

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
Napoleon Hill 1883-1970, American Speaker, Motivational Writer, ''Think and Grow Rich''

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 1933-, American Author, Speaker, Trainer, Peak Performance Expert

Energy and persistence alter all things.
Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
Dale Carnegie 1888-1955, American Author, Trainer

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage ''coaches'' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
Herbert Kaufman

Failure is the path of least persistence
Source Unknown

Defeat may test you; it need not stop you. If at first you don't succeed, try another way. For every obstacle there is a solution. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. The greatest mistake is giving up.
Source Unknown

My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.
Bjorn Borg 1956-, Swedish Tennis Player

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.
Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, ''Here comes number seventy-one!''
Richard M. DeVos 1926-, American Businessman, Co-founder of Amway Corp.