Persistence Quotes

“If you're not stubborn, you'll give up on experiments too soon. And if you're not flexible, you'll pound your head against the wall and you won't see a different solution to a problem you're trying to solve.”

“Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.”

“What does not change / is the will to change.”

“We have to fight for our rights and be vigilant and persistent. We have to be advocates for ourselves and for others who are afraid to speak up.”

“Persistence is the most important thing in research.”

“You have to have a certain amount of stubbornness to be a scientist.”

“Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.”

“Eighty percent of success is showing up.”

“Defeat is not an option.”

“I'm the guy who says, 'The movie's not over until it's over'.”

“The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.”

“My advice to a young songwriter is you have to be persistent.”

“I've got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.”

“I will never, ever, ever, ever back down from a fight.”

“Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.”

“We do lots of stuff. The only way you are going to have success is to have lots of failures first.”

“Again.”

“What you have to do is work with the raw material you have, namely you, and never let up.”

“The only thing that I have done that is not mitigated by luck, diminished by good fortune, is that I persisted, and other people gave up.”

“I never quit. I never give up. I'll be playing poker when I'm 90.”