170 Hard Work And Persistence Quotes

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Famous Hard Work And Persistence Quotes

Hard work, dedication! — Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

energy and persistence conquers all things — Benjamin Franklin

Success is the result of hard work. — Thomas A. Edison

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

Hard work certainly goes a long way. These days a lot of people work hard, so you have to make sure you work even harder and really dedicate yourself to what you are doing and setting out to achieve. — Lakshmi Mittal

Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. ... Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles. — Swami Vivekananda

Persistence and discipline are key traits for long-term success in any field. — Jim Simons

Sheer persistence is the difference between success and failure. — Donald Trump

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success. — Napoleon Hill

Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work - Andre Agassi

Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work — Andre Agassi

To succeed, one must be creative and persistent. - John H. Johnson

To succeed, one must be creative and persistent. — John H. Johnson

The backbone of success is...hard work, determination, good planning, and perserverence. — Mia Hamm

No great achievement is possible without persistent work. — Bertrand Russell

Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success. - Virat Kohli

Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success. — Virat Kohli

With hard work and effort, you can achieve anything. — Antoine Griezmann

Short Hard Work And Persistence Quotes

  • Success comes from stubborn perseverance and the tenacity not to admit defeat — Kim Hyun-joong
  • Persistence and resilience are key to overcoming challenges and achieving success. — Jensen Huang
  • Success is not about luck, it’s about hard work and perseverance. — Steven Bartlett
  • If at first you don't succeed, try hard work. — William Feather
  • The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand — Vince Lombardi
  • I don't believe in luck. ... It's persistence, hard work, and not forgetting your dream. — Janet Jackson
  • Continued persistence overcomes almost all resistance. — Mark Victor Hansen
  • Average talent, plus hard work and dedication, will always beat talent by itself. — Clinton Anderson
  • You have to work long, smart, and hard to become successful. — Tom Bilyeu
  • The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work. — Harry Golden

Hard Work And Persistence Image Quotes

Hard work and persistence quote You're a work of art. Not everyone will understand you, but the ones who do, will never forget about
You're a work of art. Not everyone will understand you, but the ones who do, will never forget about you.

Hard Work And Perseverance Quotes

Success is not easy and I think everyone should know that hard work and perseverance and being open to giving back are so much more powerful than stepping all over people to get to the top. — Misty Copeland

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

Milton Berle is an inspiration to every young person that wants to get into show business. Hard work, perseverance, and discipline: all the things you need...when you have no talent. — Dean Martin

Hard work and persistence quote How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

Physical strength (hard work), mental strength (perseverance) and spiritual strength (love & acceptance) are the keys to continuous growth. — Rickson Gracie

If you really want something, and really work hard, and take advantage of opportunities, and never give up, you will find a way.. Follow your Dreams. — Jane Goodall

The harder I work the more I live. - George Bernard Shaw

The harder I work the more I live. — George Bernard Shaw

Hard work and persistence quote Work hard in silence, let your success be the noise
Work hard in silence, let your success be the noise

I have no Napoleonic dream. I'm just hard-working and pragmatic. — Roman Abramovich

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place - that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Believe in your dreams and work hard to make them a reality. You have the power to create your own future. — Edward Barber

Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams. — Benjamin Carson

Perseverance And Hard Work Quotes

Every training session, I work hard to improve my weaknesses and build on my strengths. — Antoine Griezmann

Grind and sweat, toil and bleed, face the abyss. It’s all part of becoming an overnight success. — Naval Ravikant

I think there will be good results if you believe in yourself and work hard. Cheer up, we’re rooting for you guys. — Lisa Manoban

Hard work and persistence quote Work until you no longer have to introduce yourself.
Work until you no longer have to introduce yourself.

Work hard. Work smart. Perseverance is everything. It allows you to create and do things you wouldn’t otherwise think you could achieve. — Micky Watkins

I always want to work hard and show to everyone that I am the best. — Joanna Jedrzejczyk

Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority. — Vince Lombardi

Hard work and persistence quote Persist to overcome. He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.
Persist to overcome. He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.

Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want. If God gave you the talent, you should go for it. But don't think it's going to be easy. It's hard! — Aaliyah

No-one gets an iron-clad guarantee of success. Certainly, factors like opportunity, luck and timing are important. But the backbone of success is usually found in old-fashioned, basic concepts like hard work, determination, good planning and perseverance. — Mia Hamm

Ask yourself whose voice are you listening to? What you see in me is the result of prayer and hard work and obedience to the voice of God. — Folorunsho Alakija

We are a Team and we work hard together. We are all equal to each other. — Tim Peake

Perseverance And Persistence Quotes

Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy. - Saadi Shirazi

Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy. — Saadi Shirazi

Determination and perseverance move the world; thinking that others will do it for you is a sure way to fail. — Marva Collins

Our destiny is not determined by the number of times we stumble but by the number of times we rise up, dust ourselves off, and move forward. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Hard work and persistence quote Maybe it won't work out. But maybe seeing if it does will be the best adventure ever.
Maybe it won't work out. But maybe seeing if it does will be the best adventure ever.

The real test is not whether you avoid failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it. . . — Barack Obama

Every setback might be the very thing that makes you carry on and fight all the harder and become much better. — Les Paul

Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. — Calvin Coolidge

Hard work and persistence quote Just do what works for you, because there will always be someone who thinks differently.
Just do what works for you, because there will always be someone who thinks differently.

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. — Calvin Coolidge

Don’t give up when things get tough, just hang in there, stay focused and be patient. — Folorunsho Alakija

Be diligent to succeed as there is a way where there be no way, only the persistent and diligent finds it. — Folorunsho Alakija

Many clubs rejected me, but I wanted to be a footballer and to learn as quickly as possible, so I persisted until I got into Real Sociedad when I was 13. — Antoine Griezmann

Determination And Persistence Quotes

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it. — Maya Angelou

Dreams can come true, but there is a secret. They're realized through the magic of persistence, determination, commitment, passion, practice, focus and hard work. They happen a step at a time, manifested over years, not weeks. — Elbert Hubbard

If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it. — Michael Jordan

Hard work and persistence quote If you're not willing to do the work, don't complain about the result.
If you're not willing to do the work, don't complain about the result.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. — Thomas A. Edison

Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. — Paul J. Meyer

Few people take objectives really seriously. They put average effort into too many things, rather than superior thought and effort into a few important things. People who achieve the most are selective as well as determined. — Richard Koch

Hard work and persistence quote Stay positive, work had and make it happen.
Stay positive, work had and make it happen.

Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these. — James Whitcomb Riley

Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power. — Charles Simmons

What this power is, I cannot say... All I know is that it exists. — Alexander Graham Bell

The habit of persistence is the habit of victory. — Herbert Kaufman

Hard Work And Determination Quotes

Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe. — Gail Devers

A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work. — Colin Powell

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand. — Vince Lombardi

Hard work and persistence quote You must tell yourself "No matter how hard it is, or how hard it gets, I'm going to make it".
You must tell yourself "No matter how hard it is, or how hard it gets, I'm going to make it".

Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work. — Adrienne Rich

Do what you can, with what you have and do it now! — George Washington Carver

The moment we believe that success is determined by an ingrained level of ability as opposed to resilience and hard work, we will be brittle in the face of adversity. — Joshua Waitzkin

Hard work and persistence quote Forget all the reasons why it won't work and believe the one reason it will.
Forget all the reasons why it won't work and believe the one reason it will.

You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success - on the far side of failure. — Thomas J. Watson

A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes a lot of hard work. — Ozwald Boateng

Life is choices, but of inevitable problems that call for strength, determination, and hard work. — Indian Proverbs

My approach has been that a player with determination and a willingness to work harder than anyone else can accomplish anything. It's a simple formula. I've found it works. — Steve Nash

Power Of Persistence Quotes

President Heber J. Grant often quoted the following statement, which is sometimes attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson: “That which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do-not that the nature of the thing is changed, but that our power to do is increased.' — Heber J. Grant

That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems. — Paul J. Meyer

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

You are capable of more than you ever thought. — Richard Machowicz

A particular train of thought persisted in, be it good or bad, cannot fail to produce its results on the character and circumstances. A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances. — James Allen

It is necessary to understand that Black Power is a cry of disappointment. The Black Power slogan did not spring full grown from the head of some philosophical Zeus. It was born from the wounds of despair and disappointment. It is a cry of daily hurt and persistent pain. — Martin Luther

The secret to life is to put yourself in the right lighting. For some, it's a Broadway spotlight; for others, a lamplit desk. Use your natural powers -- of persistence, concentration, and insight -- to do work you love and work that matters. Solve problems. make art, think deeply. — Susan Cain

My goal is to buy a company at a low multiple to normal earnings power several years out and that the company earns good returns on capital at that level of normal earnings. A holding period of more than one year also works quite well as the factors are persistent in years 2 and 3. — Joel Greenblatt

Persistence And Love Quotes

We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence. — Cornel West

There is nothing more common than unsuccessful men with talent. — Joe Strummer

Your persistent longing is your persistent voice. But when love grows cold, the heart grows silent. Burning love is the outcry of the heart! If you are filled with longing all the time, you will keep crying out, and if your love perseveres, your cry will be heard without fail. — Saint Augustine

What are you doing for others? — Martin Luther King, Jr.

Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life? — Tony Robbins

Love is not without its flaws. The stronger the love, the more it tests you. Compassion and empathy will make true love persist. — Kahlil Gibran

Be stubborn and persist, and trust yourself on what you love. You have to trust what you love. — Carolee Schneemann

Success comes from taking the initiative and following up or persisting. — Tony Robbins

My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. — Bjorn Borg

Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. — Denis Waitley

Determination And Perseverance Quotes

When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there. — Zig Ziglar

Act with a determination not to be turned aside by thoughts of the past and fears of the future. — Robert E. Lee

Every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward - Thomas A. Edison

Every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward — Thomas A. Edison

Be audacious and cunning in your plans, firm and persevering in their execution, determined to find a glorious end. — Carl von Clausewitz

Fight tooth and nail — Spanish Proverbs

I find negativity is infectious and also very depressing. Choose friends who you admire and aspire to be like! Positive, driven and determined. — Martyn Ford

Change is not an event, but a process. It requires patience, perseverance, and determination. — Alexei Navalny

The only thing that I’m impressed by anymore is when someone starts something and never looks back. That is the definition of true strength. — Alex Hormozi

There's only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything. - Vince Lombardi

There's only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything. — Vince Lombardi

If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up. — Norman Vincent Peale

Patience And Persistence Quotes

Patience and persistence are vital qualities in the ultimate successful accomplishment of any worthwhile endeavor. — Joseph Pilates

I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a 'transformer' in any situation, any organization. Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an entire loaf. It requires vision, initiative, patience, respect, persistence, courage, and faith to be a transforming leader. — Stephen Covey

It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward. — Louis Sachar

Character never quits; and with patience and persistence; Dreams do come true! — Pete Maravich

As for goals, I don't set myself those anymore. I'm not one of these 'I must have achieved this and that by next year' kind of writers. I take things as they come and find that patience and persistence tend to win out in the end. — Paul Kane

Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent. — Billy Graham

Persistence with patience and prayer pays with profits, prosperity and peace of mind. — Voltaire

Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius. — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

Good things come to those who have patience and take consistent, persistent actions toward what they want. — Jeffrey Gitomer

Our levels of desire, patience, persistence, and confidence end up playing a much larger role in success than sheer reasoning powers. Feel motivated and energized, we can overcome almost anything. Feeling bored and restless, our minds shut off and we become increasingly passive. — Robert Greene

Dedication And Perseverance Quotes

These words are mine, I tell them to my boys. You have walked in my footsteps, and now you walk beside me, but eventually pass me by, so that I can see you in front of me. — Bill Miller

I still have a lot to learn, and I still have a lot to prove. — Holly Holm

Pick one thing. And go at it with everything you’ve got. — Tom Bilyeu

I work all summer and throughout the whole season to be prepared for the challenges that I have to face. — Kawhi Leonard

What I would like to say is make sure you know what you really want to do and do it. And also I want to say, if not now then when? — Lisa Manoban

We need real and dedicated fighters and champions in the UFC. It’s simply the best organization in the world. — Joanna Jedrzejczyk

Win or lose, I believe in giving my best. And that is what I always do. — Khabib Nurmagomedov

I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It's a voice of pain and victory. — Anthony Hamilton

Blackpink members and my fans are my driving forces. — Lisa Manoban

I love what I do, and when you love what you do, you want to be the best at it. — Jay-Z

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More Hard Work And Persistence Quotes

Modern man is conditioned to expect instant gratification, but any success or triumph realized quickly, with only marginal effort, is necessarily shallow. Meaningful achievement takes time, hard work, persistence, patience, proper intent and self-awareness. The path to success is punctuated by failure, consolidation, and renewed effort. — Mark Twight

Effective networking isn't a result of luck - it requires hard work and persistence. — Lewis Howes

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

You can surmount the obstacles in your path if you are determined, courageous and hard-working. Never be faint-hearted. Be resolute, but never bitter. — Ralph Bunche

Decide carefully, exactly what you want in life, then work like mad to make sure you get it! — Hector Crawford

I think the American Dream says that anything can happen if you work hard enough at it and are persistent, and have some ability. The sky is the limit to what you can build, and what can happen to you and your family. — Sanford I. Weill

The great ones in life are not those who are handed silver spoons. Their excellence comes from digging into the raw ore of their own character, through hard work, persistence and faith turning whatever they touch into gold. — Guy Finley

Success ... seems to be connected with action. — Conrad Hilton

When you chase a dream, you learn about yourself. You learn your capabilities and limitations, and the value of hard work and persistence. — Nicholas Sparks

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

Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man. Excellence in any art or profession is attained only by hard and persistent work. Never believe that you are perfect. When a man imagines, even after years of striving, that he has attained perfection, his decline begins. — Sir Theodore Martin

Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man. Excellence in any art or profession is attained only by hard and persistent work. Never believe that you are perfect. When a man imagines, even after years of striving, that he has attained perfection, his decline begins. — Theodore Martin

The potential elite runner must realize that hard means hard, easy means easy and they must patiently seek out what combinations work for them. They have to learn to be persistent and patient with their training and racing. — Frank Shorter

Grit is not just simple elbow-grease term for rugged persistence. It is an often invisible display of endurance that lets you stay in an uncomfortable place, work hard to improve upon a given interest, and do it again and again. — Sarah Lewis

Seeking those elusive individuals is like mining for rare gems. It will take hard work, patience, and a persistent attitude. To find that rich seam of colourful stones, you will have to chip through dirt and rock. You will have to learn how to hold rubble in your hands and see the fortune inside. — Chris Murray

Success Recipe: 2 cups faith, 2 cups love, 1 cup hard work, 1 cup persistence, 1 tbsp vision and a dash of swagger. — Jim Rohn

Through persistence and hard work, we can each unlock the potential God has given us. We have within us not only the capacity to accomplish great things but also the ability to do ordinary things in extraordinary ways. — Lloyd D. Newell

Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard. — Malcolm Gladwell

You are desperate to communicate, to edify or entertain, to preserve moments of grace or joy or transcendence, to make real or imagined events come alive. But you cannot will this to happen. It is a matter of persistence and faith and hard work. So you might as well just go ahead and get started. — Anne Lamott

The grim reality is that most start-ups fail. Most new products are not successful. Yet the story of perseverance, creative genius, and hard work persists. — Eric Ries

Human progress never rolls in on the wheels of inevitability; it comes through the tireless efforts and the persistent work of dedicated individuals who are willing to be co-workers with God and without this hard work time itself becomes an ally of the primitive forces of social stagnation. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

Before the start of the '76 Olympics, I'd had 160 amateur fights. I won 155 and lost five — Sugar Ray Leonard

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

I guess my mantra is you have to work really hard if you want something. You have to be committed to hard work and persistence even when it gets tough. — Vanessa Amorosi

If you work hard and be persistent, you will achieve whatever you want to do. — Jane Goodall

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

Passion and persistence are what matter. Dreams are achievable and you can make your fantasy come true, but there are no shortcuts. Nothing happens without hard work. — Diane von Furstenberg

The pleasure principle long persists, however, as the method of working employed by the sexual instincts, which are so hard to 'educate', and, starting from those instincts, or in the ego itself, it often succeeds in overcoming the reality principle, to the detriment of the organism as a whole. — Sigmund Freud

Our lives are inpired by the dreams we have from the earliest stages of our youth. When you combine passion and hard work, then success is always possible. While no road is ever straight, dedication and persistance will always lead you to your dreams. — Arte Moreno

I'm hard-nosed about luck. I think it sucks. Yeah, if you spend seven years looking for a job as a copywriter, and then one day somebody gives you a job, you can say, Gee, I was lucky I happened to go up there today. But, dammit, I was going to go up there sooner or later in the next seventy years. If you're persistent in trying and doing and working, you almost make your own fortune. — Jerry Della Femina

I think that persistence and stubbornness and hard work are probably, at the end of the day, more important than the willingness to take a risk. — Malcolm Gladwell

The danger which threatens us comes from Labour...Those who think that the Conservative or Unionist Party, standing as such and disavowing its Liberal allies, could return with a working majority are living in a fools paradise and, if they persist, may easily involve themselves and the country in dangers the outcome of which it is hard to predict. — Austen Chamberlain

I'm hard-nosed about luck...If you're persistent in trying and doing and working, you almost always make your own fortune. — Jerry Della Femina

To succeed in any undertaking, any art or any trade or any profession, simply keep it ever persistently fixed in mind as an aim, and then study to make all effort toward it play or recreation. The moment it becomes hard work, we are not advancing. — Prentice Mulford

Challenges aren't frightening, defeats aren't terrifying either. A principle that I now insist and persist on is the understanding that you can fulfill your dreams when you work hard and don't give up. — Seungri

The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness. — Thomas A. Edison

There is no magic to achievement. It's really about hard work, choices, and persistence. — Michelle Obama

It doesn't matter if people are playing jazz or writing poetry. If they want to be successful, they need to learn how to persist and persevere and keep on working until the work is done... I bet there isn't a single highly successful person who has not depended on grit. Nobody is talented enough to not have to work hard, and that's what grit allows you to do. — Jonah Lehrer

Farm workers everywhere are angry and worried that we cannot win without violence. We have proved it before through persistence, hard work, faith and willingness to sacrifice. We can win and keep our own self-respect and build a great union that will secure the spirit of all people if we do it through a re-dedication and re-commitment to the struggle for justice through non-violence. — Cesar Chavez

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