“I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.”
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100 Consistency Quotes
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Consistency is the least glamorous cousin of talent. It is the same walk, the same page, the same practice, on days that will never make a documentary.
This page is a hundred quotes about showing up again. Coaches, writers, stoics, and builders keep saying versions of the same thing: the compound interest of ordinary effort.
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100 quotes
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
Aristotle
“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.
“Energy and persistence conquer all things.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
Albert Einstein
“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”
Thomas Edison
“Keep moving forward.”
Walt Disney
“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”
Mother Teresa
“It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.”
Muhammad Ali
“If you quit once it becomes a habit. Never quit.”
Michael Jordan
“We don't rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training.”
Archilochus
“Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying basic fundamentals.”
Jim Rohn
“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”
Jim Rohn
“Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.”
Will Rogers
“Continuous effort — not strength or intelligence — is the key to unlocking our potential.”
Winston Churchill
“Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”
Warren Buffett
“Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.”
Warren Buffett
“The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient.”
Warren Buffett
“Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.”
Bill Gates
“I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.”
Mark Zuckerberg
“I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance.”
John D. Rockefeller
“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”
Lao Tzu
“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”
Aristotle
“Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.”
Oprah Winfrey
“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.”
Robert Collier
“What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.”
Ralph Marston
“Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.”
Sam Levenson
“Small daily improvements over time lead to stunning results.”
Robin Sharma
“Success isn't always about greatness. It's about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.”
Dwayne Johnson
“It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives. It's what we do consistently.”
Tony Robbins
“Long-term consistency trumps short-term intensity.”
Bruce Lee
“I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.”
Bruce Lee
“Success isn't always about greatness. It's about consistency.”
Dwayne Johnson
“You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
Marcus Aurelius
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
Marcus Aurelius
“If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it.”
Marcus Aurelius
“The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”
Marcus Aurelius
“When you arise in the morning, think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love.”
Marcus Aurelius
“The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.”
Marcus Aurelius
“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
Marcus Aurelius
“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you.”
Marcus Aurelius
“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.”
Marcus Aurelius
“The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up.”
Marcus Aurelius
“A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”
Marcus Aurelius
“The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Whatever happens to you has been waiting to happen since the beginning of time.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.”
Marcus Aurelius
“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Receive without pride, let go without attachment.”
Marcus Aurelius
“If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change.”
Marcus Aurelius
“You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.”
Marcus Aurelius
“It is the responsibility of leadership to work intelligently with what is given, and not waste time fantasizing about a world of flawless people.”
Marcus Aurelius
“The best answer to anger is silence.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Do not indulge in dreams of having what you have not, but reckon up the chief of the blessings you do possess.”
Marcus Aurelius
“A cucumber is bitter. Throw it away. There are briars in the path. Turn aside. That is all you need to know.”
Marcus Aurelius
“What we do now echoes in eternity.”
Marcus Aurelius
“The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.”
Marcus Aurelius
“No man is happy who does not think himself so.”
Marcus Aurelius
“To live happily is an inward power of the soul.”
Marcus Aurelius
“He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.”
Marcus Aurelius
“The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now take what's left and live it properly.”
Marcus Aurelius
“How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.”
Marcus Aurelius
“A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.”
Marcus Aurelius
“The happiness of those who want to be popular depends on others; the happiness of those who seek pleasure fluctuates with moods; but the happiness of the wise grows out of their own free acts.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Confine yourself to the present.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not 'This is misfortune,' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'”
Marcus Aurelius
“If it is not right, do not do it. If it is not true, do not say it. Let your impulse be under your control.”
Marcus Aurelius
“The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Stop wandering about. You are not likely to read your own notebooks, or ancient histories, or the collected works you have put aside for your old age.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Dig within. Within is the wellspring of good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Our life is what our thoughts make it.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.”
Marcus Aurelius
“The man who is honest and good should be like a smelly goat — you know he is there as soon as he comes near.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.”
Marcus Aurelius
“You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can't control.”
Marcus Aurelius
“At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself: I have to go to work — as a human being.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Don't go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.”
Marcus Aurelius
“How soon will time cover all things.”
Marcus Aurelius
“It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn't matter.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Life is neither good nor evil, but only a place for good and evil.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Objective judgment, now, at this very moment. Unselfish action, now, at this very moment. Willing acceptance, now, at this very moment — that's all you need.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Pass through this brief patch of time in harmony with nature, and come to your final resting place gracefully.”
Marcus Aurelius
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