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Tag Name "Persistence" (447)

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Motivation fuels the attitude that builds the Confidence necessary to sustain the Persistence.
Zig Ziglar
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Have a dream, make a plan, go for it. You'll get there, I promise.
Zoe Koplowitz
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There is no such thing as natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls.
Lee Trevino
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If there's any single talent a writer needs, it's persistence. If you can keep at your writing and you can learn as you write, you can tell any story you want to tell.
Octavia Butler
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Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.
Hamilton Holt
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I'm proof that great things can happen to ordinary people if they work hard and never give up.
Orel Hershiser
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There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Beverly Sills
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Persistence is self-discipline in action.
Brian Tracy
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Continued persistence overcomes almost all resistance.
Mark Victor Hansen
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Just because you didn't start out perfect doesn't mean you can't have an excellent result in the end.
Debi Thomas
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You might find it necessary to 'snap' out of your mental inertia, moving slowly at first, then increasing your speed, until you gain complete control over your will. Be persistent no matter how slowly you may, at first, have to move. With persistence will come success.
Napoleon Hill
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[John] Adams's letters reveal his persistence and determination to win over the Dutch against all odds and to convince them and the other peoples of Europe of the potential greatness of the United States and of the importance of the Revolution to the world.
Gordon S. Wood
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As a means to success, determination has this advantage over talent - that it does not have to be recognized by others.
Robert Breault
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Persistence in a single view has never been regarded as a merit in political leaders.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
Hal Borland
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While persistence offers no guarantees, it does give 'luck' a chance to operate.
Tom Shippey
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Persistence in prayer for someone whom we don't like, however much it goes against the grain to begin with, brings about a remarkable change in attitude.
F. F. Bruce
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[Robinson Crusoe] is the true prototype of the British colonist. The whole Anglo-Saxon spirit is in Crusoe: the manly independence, the unconscious cruelty, the persistence, the slow yet efficient intelligence, the sexual apathy, the calculating taciturnity.
James Joyce
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Parents, it seems, have an almost Olympian persistence when it comes to suggesting more secure and lucrative lines of work for their children who have the notion that writing is an actual profession. I say this from experience.
Susan Orlean
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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
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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Napoleon Hill
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If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do succeed.
Curly Howard
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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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The whole idea of motivation is a trap. Forget motivation. Just do it. Exercise, lose weight, test your blood sugar, or whatever. Do it without motivation. And then, guess what? After you start doing the thing, that's when the motivation comes and makes it easy for you to keep on doing it.
John C. Maxwell
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