Success Persistence Quotes & Sayings

Ninety percent of success come from the choices you make; the other ten percent comes from persistence. — Debasish Mridha

When I meet successful people I ask 100 questions as to what they attribute their success to. It is usually the same: persistence, hard work and hiring good people. — Kiana Tom

I attribute my success to my deep driving desire and persistence to face the tremendous adversity. — Debasish Mridha

Persistence is key when you want to achieve. You can't afford to quit just because you don't feel good about failure. — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

success in life calls for resilience and persistence. — Sim Pol

Startup success is driven most by the product passion, quality, vision, team-work and persistence of the founding team and the talent that the team attracts. — Jim Breyer

Take one more step because it might be the last one needed. — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

Success cannot resist the temptation of consistency and persistence. — Noel DeJesus

Add persistence to patience, you get perseverance. Multiply perseverance, you get success. — Manuela George-Izunwa

Your will to success supersedes all other wills. — Lailah Gifty Akita

You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist. — Isaac Asimov

Persistence and passion will make you invincible. — Christian Baloga

Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds. — Malcolm Gladwell

Let your passion fuel your perseverance. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The key to success in any kind of start up is your level of persistence. It's not so much your intellect. The Zuckerburg's, Pages and Brins, that succeed have such a level of belief in what they are doing that they will put up with the kind of crap that most people won't put up with, they are incredibly persistent and resilient. — Robert Greene

Your thoughts can change your actions and your actions can change your thoughts. — Sukant Ratnakar

It's good to remember that success may be just beyond the next failure, and you'll get there, not because you're destined to, but because you're determined to. — Steve Goodier

Persistence is always rewarded with success. — Steven Redhead

Then it began to dawn on us: There was no miracle moment. Although it may have looked like a single-stroke breakthrough to those peering in from the outside, it was anything but that to people experiencing transformation from within. Rather, it was a quiet, deliberate process of figuring out what needed to be done to create the best future results and then simply taking those steps, one after the other, turn by turn of the flywheel. After pushing on that flywheel in a consistent direction over an extended period of time, they'd inevitably hit a point of breakthrough. — James C. Collins

Individual and team discipline ultimately come down to practicing a small set of principles over a long period of time. Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory, but rather embracing common sense with uncommon levels of discipline and persistence. Said in yet another way, discipline is to an athlete what scales are to a musician. Mastering the scales is what allows the musician to perform music. Mastering the skills of self discipline is what enables a person to become an accomplished elite athlete. — Mike Hebert

Perhaps it is the case that no organization or hierarchy can withstand the closest of scrutiny. Not even a smugly self-touted meritocracy. The success and persistence of utter fools everywhere is sad testament to that. — Ian C. Esslemont

I believe persistence is a major key to success in any great endeavor. I want to remind folks to PERSIST in whatever they are tackling at the moment! — Andy Andrews

The only way to succeed in life is to never give up. Oftentimes, it requires standing alone. — Ellen J. Barrier

I've known entrepreneurs who were not great salespeople, or didn't know how to code, or were not particularly charismatic leaders. But I don't know of any entrepreneurs who have achieved any level of success without persistence and determination. — Harvey MacKay

There is one prevailing key to success. Do what you resolve to do. Then you'll be a success. If you can discipline yourself to follow through on your promises to yourself, your self-esteem goes up. Persistence is self-discipline in action. Self-discipline is the foundation of self-confidence . — Brian Tracy

Leaders are made not born. They are the results of persistent effort. Thus, leadership involves much more than just shouting. Effective leadership requires a human focus and reflects a servant and transformation mentality. It is about the nuts and bolts of execution. Leadership is an everyday activity. It is a process that begins but never ends. — Vishwas Chavan

Be persistent in the pursuit of your dreams. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Time and persistence has shown me that I can succeed at sharing my art with others as a musician while running my own music business. And that kind of success is as good as I could have ever wished for. — Bradley Joseph

Being gifted intellectually is only a small part of the equation of success. Concentrate on the factors you have control over: persistence, self-discipline, confidence. Far more failures are due to lack of will than lack of ability. — Terry Bradshaw

I don't think I'm stubborn. I just focus on the task at hand and do what it takes. Persistence is the single most important thing for success. — Terry Matthews

Because much more often than you'd think, sheer persistence is the difference between success and failure. In — Donald J. Trump

If you are unhappy about something change it.
Choose what you want in life, create your plan to get it, put your plan into action and follow through with persistence. — Latorria Freeman

Growing up in a group home, and with an undiagnosed learning disability to boot, the odds of success were not on my side. But when I joined the high school football team, I learned the value of discipline, focus, persistence, and teamwork - all skills that have proven vital to my career as a C.E.O. and social entrepreneur. — Darell Hammond

The secret of success is conviction and persistence. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Persistence is the most traveled path to success. — Bryant McGill

When it comes to human success, I'm pretty sure the object doesn't need a net external force to move it. — Majid Kazmi

If you care to know, majority of successful people in the world were all struck by limitations in one way or the other. What made them great isn't the absence of limitations; but it was their persistence to rise in the face of those limitations. — Israelmore Ayivor

If you never persisted, you will never succeed. — Vann Chow

Vision and persistence will take you to the top of the leadership mountain, but only humility will keep you there. — Orrin Woodward

Don't give up in the middle of the journey. — Lailah Gifty Akita

For success, don't take the path of least resistance. Take the path of most persistence. — Michele Jennae

Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory but rather of embracing common sense with uncommon levels of discipline and persistence. — Patrick Lencioni

Lucky is where skill meets persistence. — Robin Sharma

Since when is failure more appealing? Never give up. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Persistence means giving full concentration to whatever you are doing right now ... Persistence is success through trial, error, resetting your goals, and moving toward the target. — Denis Waitley

Hard work is the key to any achievement. — Lailah Gifty Akita

American parents, teachers, and children were far more likely than their Japanese and Chinese counterparts to believe that mathematical ability is innate; if you have it, you don't have to work hard, and if you don't have it, there's no point in trying. In contrast, most Asians regard math success, like achievement in any other domain, as a matter of persistence and plain hard work. Of course you will make mistakes as you go along; that's how you learn and improve. It doesn't mean you are stupid. — Carol Tavris

You don't achieve success by "taking it easy" or "working on it later." You achieve it thru persistence and hard work. — Robert Kiyosaki

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Success is like a camera. Only focus on what is most important. Ignore trivial details. Concentrate on your main goal image for success. Develop your pictures. If they don't turn out, don't give up. Take more shots at it. Always be persistent. Focus on making success clearly happen. — Mark LaMoure

An aspirational diet will have you dreaming of success; but it's the attachment of expectations and tangible goals that feeds the desire, persistence, and fortitude required to make the win. — Lorii Myers

Individuals who are prepared unflinchingly to confront the truth about their childhood and to see their parents in a realistic light. Unfortunately, it is very often the case that therapeutic success can be seriously endangered if therapy (as frequently happens) is subjected to the dictates of conventional morality, thus making it impossible for adult clients to free themselves of the compulsive persuasion that they owe their parents love and gratitude. The authentic feelings stored in the body remain untapped, and the price the clients have to pay for this is the unremitting persistence of the severe symptoms affecting them. I assume that readers who have themselves undergone a number of unsuccessful therapies will readily recognize their plight in this problem. In — Alice Miller

In the game of football, you least complain, shout, talk or blame your opponents or the referee continuously throughout the game just because of your opponents opposition, strength or antics to ensure that you lose focus and lose the game; winning the game is your true aim. Such is life! You must do all you ought to do to score your goals notwithstanding the oppositions and how life will play the game of life with you! Be a goal getter! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I've heard a lot of great success stories from writers - how so many of them struggled to get where they are and how persistence pays off. I learned that some writers are good at doing readings and some are not so good at it. — Kevin Sampsell

Sacrifice precedes success. — Lailah Gifty Akita

One thing we all know, if one does not possess PERSISTENCE, one does not achieve noteworthy success in any calling. — Napoleon Hill

Creativity is paradoxical. To create, a person must have knowledge but forget the knowledge, must see unexpected connections in things but not have a mental disorder, must work hard but spend time doing nothing as information incubates, must create many ideas yet most of them are useless, must look at the same thing as everyone else, yet see something different, must desire success but embrace failure, must be persistent but not stubborn, and must listen to experts but know how to disregard them.
[Twelve Things You Were Not Taught in School About Creative Thinking (The Creativity Post, December 6, 2011)] — Michael Michalko

Passion + Persistence + Patience = Success. — Polly Letofsky

Success never resides in the world of weak wishes, but in the palace of purposeful plans and prayerful persistence. — William Arthur Ward

Edison was by far the most successful and, probably, the last exponent of the purely empirical method of investigation. Everything he achieved was the result of persistent trials and experiments often performed at random but always attesting extraordinary vigor and resource. Starting from a few known elements, he would make their combinations and permutations, tabulate them and run through the whole list, completing test after test with incredible rapidity until he obtained a clue. His mind was dominated by one idea, to leave no stone unturned, to exhaust every possibility. — Nikola Tesla

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

There is a price to be paid for any accomplishment. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Without overcoming the obstacles on the path, how can you get to the top of the mountain? — Lailah Gifty Akita

Success is like sausage, you'd be surprised what goes into it. — Tim Fargo

The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal. — Criss Jami

In our culture we tend to equate thinking and intellectual powers with success and achievement. In many ways, however, it is an emotional quality that separates those who master a field from the many who simply work at a job. Our levels of desire, patience, persistence, and confidence end up playing a much larger role in success than sheer reasoning powers. Feeling motivated and energized, we can overcome almost anything. Feeling bored and restless, our minds shut off and we become increasingly passive. — Robert Greene

You must know the rules of the game, to play better. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Persistence is the fundamental ingredient of true success. — Debasish Mridha

I demand a lot from myself and reflect this attitude upon others: I consider it to be an important quality for a leader. I also think it is impossible to achieve success without persistence. — Yelena Baturina

At some time you start to think your dreams are beyond you. The universe is sending you messages to quit... contrary. The universe is simply making sure that it really is something you want. Anything great is worth fighting for. Keep fighting, keep persisting. It is only through persistence that we ultimately succeed. — Tony Curl

Perhaps the heroic element in our natures is exhibited to the best advantage, not in going from success to success, and so on through a series of triumphs, but in gathering, on the very field of defeat itself, the materials for renewed efforts, and in proceeding, with no abatement of heart or energy, to form fresh designs upon the very ruins and ashes of blasted hopes. Yes, it is this indomitable persistence in a purpose, continued alike through defeat and success, that makes, more than aught else, the hero. — Christian Nestell Bovee

Burning passion, definite purpose and joyful persistence are the defining force for true success. — Debasish Mridha

The only people capable of handling success are those who have learned to handle failures w/o taking their eyes off the prize. — Orrin Woodward

Patience and persistence are the keys ... The keys to unlock doors of success ... With these two virtues, you grow in reasoning and experience. — Ogwo David Emenike

Be persistent no matter how slowly you may, at first, have to move. With persistence will come success. — Napoleon Hill

If you have a great purpose and develop good habits of persistence and patience, you will be great success. — Debasish Mridha

Flaming enthusiasm, backed by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success. — Dale Carnegie

To walk in the footsteps of the great, put on their shoes. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I want to remind you that success in life is based on hard slogging. There will be periods when discouragement is great and upsetting, and the antidote for this is calmness and fortitude and a modest yet firm belief in your competence. Be sure that your priorities are in order so that you can proceed in a logical manner, and be ever mindful that nothing will take the place of persistence. — Walter Annenberg

Persistence breeds success. — J. Eric Booker

I tried and failed. I tried again and again and succeeded.
[Epitaph from Gail Borden's gravestone.] — Gail Borden

Persistence and prayer: there can be little success in life living one without the other. — Clara Freeman

Success is when persistence meets preparation. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Vigilance in watching opportunity, tact and daring in seizing upon opportunity, force and persistence in crowding opportunity to its utmost of possible achievement - these are the martial virtues which must command success — Austin Phelps

With persistent attempt, you will succeed. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Successful continual learning means maintaining a balance and variety of success-oriented attributes, the most prominent being awareness, confidence, persistence, determination, courage, and focus. But curiosity, ingenuity, and creativity may be even more important as it is these traits that fuel the desire to continue to question and challenge the status quo. — Lorii Myers

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt. — Max Beerbohm

The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense. — Thomas A. Edison

To be a success you need to have persistence of drive, persistence of vision, and persistence of action. You will be doing yourself a disservice by not staying resilient. — Meghan Wier

My father told me never to take my foot off a ladder to kick at someone who was kicking at me. When I did that, I would no longer be climbing. While they are kicking, my father told me, I should keep stepping. They can kick only one time. If I continued to climb, they would be left behind. In trying to hurt me, to impede my progress, they would get left behind because they allowed themselves to get sidetracked from their agenda. — Steve Harvey

Believing in yourself truly means trusting your capability to think, learn, do, and deliver better results. In that case, it doesn't matter where you're starting from. As you keep going, you're developing into a better person. — SuccessCoach Nilesh

Success is experienced when opportunity meets preparation, persistence, and prayer. — Temeko Richardson

Persistence is a characteristic to which success invariably surrenders. — Catherine Ponder

Part time effort means part time results — Tony Curl

Never give up just because you failed initially — Sunday Adelaja

Paying the price for your dreams proves you can afford them. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The single most important route of success is persistence - never, ever give up! — Terry Matthews

Success in life isn't only for the gifted or the privileged or those with a high IQ. Success is totally dependent on three things: persistence, determination and a positive mental attitude. — Denis Waitley

With certainty, courage and commitment, the dream will be a reality. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The cost you will pay to achieve the goal is worthwhile. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence. — Colin Powell