Persistence Quotes

"Success is 99 percent failure."

Soichiro Honda

"Success is not the absence of failure; it's the persistence through failure."

Aisha Tyler

"There is no failure except in no longer trying."

Elbert Hubbard

"A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success."

Elbert Hubbard

"Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'"

Mary Anne Radmacher

"Nothing in the world is softer or weaker than water, yet nothing is better at overcoming the hard and strong."

"Don't take rest after your first victory because if you fail in second, more lips are waiting to say that your first victory was just luck."

"The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times."

Paulo Coelho

"A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence."

Jim Watkins

"Energy and persistence conquer all things."

"Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going."

Sam Levenson

"Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong."

Ella Fitzgerald

"It ain't over till it's over."

"Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement."

Marv Levy

"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run."

Babe Ruth

"Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."

"Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way."

"My motto was always to keep swinging."

Hank Aaron

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

Thomas Edison

"If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied."

Alfred Nobel

"If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off... no matter what they say."

Barbara McClintock

"Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield."

"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent."

Calvin Coolidge

"The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces."

"Persistence is the twin sister of excellence."

Marabel Morgan