Avenues to Persistence

The Avenue of Persistence 

Persistence Quotes for College Students *

• The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.
  - Orison Swett Marden, 1850-1924, American author of success and motivation books
• To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe in and act on it with all your heart.
  - Christy Borgeld, Founder of Step Family Day
• Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.
  - Frédéric Chopin, 1810-1849, Polish composer and virtuoso pianist
  
  The only known photograph of Chopin (taken by Bisson in 1849, the year of Chopin's death)
  Image source: Wikipedia
  
• Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.
  - Rev. William Sloane Coffin Jr., 1924-2006, American clergyman and peace activist
• Success sees to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
  - Conrad N. Hilton, 1887-1979, American businessman
• In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.
  - Margaret Halsey, 1910-1997, American novelist
• Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what is brings.
  - Arthur Rubinstein, 1887-1982, American (Polish-born) composer and pianist
• Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
  - William Ellery Channing, 1780-1842, American Unitarian minister
• There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.
  - Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard, 1868-1930, American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist
• It's not whether you get knocked down. It's whether you get up again.
  

  

   

  Vince Lombardi,

  1913-1970

  American Football Hall of Fame football coach

  Image source: The Official Web Site of Vince Lombardi

• Putting off an easy thing makes it hard.
  Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.
  - Rev. Dr. George C. Lorimer, D.D., 1868-1937, American Baptist preacher, author
• Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.
  - Admiral Hyman Rickover, 1900-1986, U.S. Navy Four-Star Admiral
• Smile when it hurts most.
  - Unknown
• To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.
  - Pearl S. Buck, 1892-1973, American novelist, humanitarian
• Whatever course you have chosen for yourself, it will not be a chore but an adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving, if your sights are set far above the merely secure and mediocre.
  - David Sarnoff, 1891-1971, Founder of NBC and longtime chief executive officer of RCA
• Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.
  - Plutarch, c 46 AD -c 120 AD, Greek historian, biographer, essayist
• Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in that gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
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  - Theodore Roosevelt, 1858-1919

  26th President of the United States

• Everyone has the desire to win, but only champions have the desire to prepare.
  - Unknown
• There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in
  - Leonard Cohen, Born 1934, Songwriter, musician
• Some folks are natural born kickers. They can always find a way to turn disaster into butter.
  - Katherine Paterson, 1932, American author of books for children.
• Thank everyone who calls out your faults, your anger, your impatience, your egotism; do this consciously, voluntarily.
  -Jean Toomer, 1894-1967, poet and novelist

  
  

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  Jean Toomer's Life and Career

  College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Success is deciding from the start what end result you want and creating the circumstances to realize that result.
  - Mark Victor Hansen, Born 1948, American inspirational and motivational speaker, trainer and author. He is best known as the founder and co-creator of the "Chicken Soup " book series.
• No labour bestowed upon a worthless thing can be productive of fruit; even by a hundred efforts a crane cannot be made to talk like a parrot.
  - The Hitopadesa by Narayana
• Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted.
  - David Bly, Canadian writer and photographer
• Winners are just ex-losers who got mad.
  - Van Crouch, American minister, motivational speaker