Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.
Persistence overshadows even talent as the most valuable resource shaping the quality of life.
I'm a dogged person. I respond to adversity with a steely resistance.
One thing we all know, if one does not possess PERSISTENCE, one does not achieve noteworthy success in any calling.
Once a person insists on how you are to think he immediately begins to insist on how you are to behave.
When there's something I need to focus on, I'm like a dog with a bone.
I tried it 100 or a million times it couldn't happen again. If I could, I would have carried on playing.
I don't have talent. I have tenacity.
If the biographer gives me credit for being a plodder, he will describe me justly. Anything beyond this will be too much. I can plod. I can persevere in any definite pursuit. To this I owe everything.
You can't aspire to have heightened senses, whereas you can aspire to tell the truth, every single second, and you can aspire to be dogged and just never let anything be enough, never give in, and never give up.
Persistence isn't using the same tactics over and over. Persistence is having the same goal over and over.
Lack of persistence is one of the major causes of failure. Moreover, experience with thousands of people has proved that lack of persistence is a weakness common to the majority of men. It is a weakness which may be overcome with effort.
The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people.
Studies indicate that the one quality all successful people have is persistence.
Persistence is stubbornness with a purpose.
It's how tenacious you are that will determine your success.
Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard.
I made the journey to knowledge like dogs who go for walks with their masters, a hundred times forward and backward over the same territory; and when I arrived I was tired.
Long ago, I realized that my only talent - aside from the rugged good looks, of course, and the strange power I hold over elderly women - can be reduced to a single word: doggedness.
What I had that others didn't was a capacity for sticking to it.
Endurance is frequently a form of indecision.
If you stick to something doggedly, you are off to a bad start.
Most people with a big idea, great talent and/or something to say don't get lucky at first. Or second. Or even third. It's so easy to conclude that if you're not lucky, you're not good. So persistence becomes an essential element of good, because without persistence, you never get a chance to get lucky.
Be tenacious. One thing that has allowed me to have some level of success is that I am fine with cold-calling people. It doesn't scare me to call someone who has no idea who I am and say I'd love to take you to lunch.
It's a funny word, persistence. It means not giving up, but it also means just passing on through time.
