Persistence is half the battle. That's what I love about independent movies. They don't have to be made. There's no studio with an agenda to set up a franchise like 'Batman' or to make a vehicle for a celebrity actor. My films are made because I love the process.

Brad Anderson

I had developed a relationship with one of the anti-abortion sidewalk counselors who stood in front of my facility. We talked regularly through the fence and she had asked me to go have coffee with her one day. I was impressed with her persistence and, honestly, I thought I would really like her if I got to know her.

Abby Johnson

Relationship Would Wit

Success is not the absence of failure; it's the persistence through failure.

Aisha Tyler

Success Failure Through

The successful entrepreneurs that I see have two characteristics: self-awareness and persistence. They're able to see problems in their companies through their self-awareness and be persistent enough to solve them.

Alan Schaaf

War Success Two

The art of love is largely the art of persistence.

Albert Ellis

Love Art Ten

Retaining culture takes effort and persistence and discipline. It's a commitment, not a flag. You can't just pull it out and wave it about when it's convenient.

Alexandra Fuller

Men You Wave

Building a successful business requires a combination of human capital, financial resources, market opportunity, persistence, community support, and even luck.

Andrew Yang

Success Business Us

I've been pretty good about keeping my nose to the grindstone. I feel like I won a lot of matches from hard work and persistence, even maybe when I had better options as far as shot-making.

Andy Roddick

Work Good Won

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

Anthony J. D'Angelo

Your You Turn

I'm proud we have built a billion-dollar business from scratch here in the US. It has been done very much in a slow, building way. It wasn't an instant type of thing. America is a huge market where persistence is very important, and I am a builder by nature.

Anthony Pratt

Nature Business Where

Throughout human history, in any great endeavour requiring the common effort of many nations and men and women everywhere, we have learned - it is only through seriousness of purpose and persistence that we ultimately carry the day. We might liken it to riding a bicycle. You stay upright and move forward so long as you keep up the momentum.

Ban Ki-moon

Women War Mom

Persistence pushes me to be bold and seek out the opportunities I've wanted. It starts by envisioning what you want, no matter how big or small, and believing that you can achieve it.

Belinda Johnson

Art You Wanted

One of my best qualities is my persistence.

Ben Askren

Tie Ten T

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

Benjamin Franklin

Things Thing Thin

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

Bill Bradley

Success You Vehicle

My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.

Bjorn Borg

Great Victories Victor

I don't know if I discovered I had any talent. It was dogged persistence. I had to have the music.

Bob Weir

Music Us Ten

Persistence is half the battle. That's what I love about independent movies. They don't have to be made. There's no studio with an agenda to set up a franchise like 'Batman' or to make a vehicle for a celebrity actor. My films are made because I love the process.

Brad Anderson

Movies Love Age

Success is all about persistence and doing the right thing for the long term.

Bruce Rauner

Success Thing Thin

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Calvin Coolidge

War Success Men

I'm a big believer in persistence, don't be greedy and, above all, work hard. It's what keeps me going.

Caprice Bourret

Work Work Hard Ten

This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation.

Carroll Quigley

Persistence and endurance will make you omnipotent.

Casey Neistat

Success is about persistence. You can only afford to be persistent in something you deeply enjoy.

Cenk Uygur

Persistence is a pretty important part of making it in this business, which, in retrospect, is the easy part. Maintaining a profile is the difficult part of the job. Somehow or another, I muddled through that system and somehow am around to still enjoy playing for people.

Chris Squire

We're designed for persistence hunting, which is a mix of running and walking. What's built into that kind of running is a sense of pleasure. You are designed and built and perfect for this activity, and it should be enjoyable and fun.

Christopher McDougall

Many people in San Francisco know me, and they know my persistence.

Cindy Sheehan

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

Colin Powell

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

Dale Carnegie

I'm a realist - yes, I know: darn, I'm unlikely to have a love scene with Chris Hemsworth anytime soon, if ever. But I also believe that persistence and hard work pays off.

Danielle Macdonald

Growing up in a group home, and with an undiagnosed learning disability to boot, the odds of success were not on my side. But when I joined the high school football team, I learned the value of discipline, focus, persistence, and teamwork - all skills that have proven vital to my career as a C.E.O. and social entrepreneur.

Darell Hammond

Asking in faith requires honesty, effort, commitment, and persistence.

David A. Bednar

Negative thinking patterns can be immensely deceptive and persuasive, and change is rarely easy. But with patience and persistence, I believe that nearly all individuals suffering from depression can improve and experience a sense of joy and self-esteem once again.

David D. Burns

On my best days, I fancy myself a combination of Dad's persistence/patience and Mom's toughness/skepticism.

David Einhorn

Without the persistence of voters in America getting up to every election, democracy will not flourish.

David Hogg

I rewrote it and I took all your notes. Read it again, that kind of persistence paid off.

David Steinberg

Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.

Denis Waitley

As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.

Denis Waitley

With patience and persistence, even the smallest act of discipleship or the tiniest ember of belief can become a blazing bonfire of a consecrated life. In fact, that's how most bonfires begin - as a simple spark.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Wes Anderson deserves an award for sheer persistence of vision.

Edgar Wright

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

Elbert Hubbard

I've always wanted, notionally, to be a mother. And I was certain I would be, because everyone I know, gay or straight, married or single, rich or not so much, who truly wants to have a child figures out a way, some way, to have one - whether through adoption, fostering, surrogacy, fertility, accident, or persistence.

Faith Salie

Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work though difficult problems.

Gever Tulley

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

Hal Borland

I've known entrepreneurs who were not great salespeople, or didn't know how to code, or were not particularly charismatic leaders. But I don't know of any entrepreneurs who have achieved any level of success without persistence and determination.

Harvey Mackay

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Herbert Kaufman

Quantity and persistence will get you the outcomes you need.

James Altucher

The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.

James Whitcomb Riley

Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.

James Whitcomb Riley

Everyone I know who is having success in film right now is there because of persistence.

Jay Duplass

I've trained my whole life to be a winner and if I know two things it's that to be the best takes passion and persistence.

Jay-Jay Okocha