Persistence Quotes

"Persist – don't take no for an answer. If you're happy to sit at your desk and not take any risk, you'll be sitting at your desk for the next 20 years."

- David Rubenstein

"I am prouder of my years as a single mother than of any other part of my life."

- J.K. Rowling

""Stick to a task, 'til it sticks to you, because beginners are many, but finishers are few.""

- Thomas S. Monson

"One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve."

- George Allen, Sr.

"I would say to any single parent currently feeling the weight of stereotype or stigmatisation that I am prouder of my years as a single mother than of any other part of my life. Yes, I got off benefits and wrote the first four Harry Potter books as a single mother, but nothing makes me prouder than what Jessica told me recently about the first five years of her life: ‘I never knew we were poor. I just remember being happy.”"

- J. K. Rowling

"I would say to any single parent currently feeling the weight of stereotype or stigmatisation that I am prouder of my years as a single mother than of any other part of my life."

- J. K. Rowling

"I will breathe. I will think of solutions. I will not let my worry control me. I will not let my stress level break me. And it will be okay because I won’t quit."

- Shayne McClendon

""I want to be remembered as the one who tried.""

- Dorothy Height

"Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance."

- Anthony J. D'Angelo

"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another."

- Walter Elliot

"If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges."

- Pat Riley

"Letting go isn’t a one-time thing, it’s something you have to do every day, over and over again."

- Dawson's Creek

"A big shot is a little shot who keeps on shooting, so keep trying."

- A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

"In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perseverance."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"As practice makes perfect, I cannot but make progress; each drawing one makes, each study one paints, is a step forward."

- Vincent van Gogh

"If you can't fly, then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Watching you succeed in life is beyond satisfying. You make me proud in so many ways. Happy birthday, sweet girl!"