Persistence Quotes

"People are surprised I do comedy! And I'm like, 'Guys, that's all I have been doing. For, like, forever.'"

"When I like something, I thoroughly pursue it. That hasn't changed since I was in high school."

"I guess I'm just proud that I kept on working, not becoming just a viral hit."

"Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent."

"Obviously 1,500 is a lot of hits, but I've got to keep going."

"My dad has always been really helpful. He taught me that talent is a bonus, but persistence is what wins out."

"Patience and time do more than strength or passion."

Jean de La Fontaine

"Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away."

Elvis Presley

"Truth must be repeated again and again, because error also is being preached all the while."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The art of love is largely the art of persistence."

Albert Ellis

"If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise."

William Blake

"One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done."

Marie Curie

"Champions keep playing until they get it right."

Billie Jean King

"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

"Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit."

"It's hard to beat a person who never gives up."

Babe Ruth

"Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence."

Ovid

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

Thomas Edison

"By constant practice even the dull become skilled; the rope that rubs again and again leaves its mark on the stone."

Vrind

"The moment you give up is the moment you let someone else win."

"If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time."

Steve Jobs

"Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit."

Conrad Hilton

"Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success."

"There is no substitute for hard work."

Thomas Edison

"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