Alice Paul Quotes

I'm kind of a grinder.

You've got to stick at a thing, a particular thing, until you succeed. I feel that's the only way to succeed - by concentrating on something in particular. Once you know what you've got to do you will succeed, you will succeed.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

I'm the kind of guy that once I decide I'm going to do something I have a hard time just giving up on it without giving it a fair shot.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

The secret of success lies in that old word, 'Drudgery,' in doing one thing long after it ceases to be amusing; and it is 'this one thing I do' that gathers me together from my chaos, that concentrates me from possibilities to powers, and turns powers into achievements.

To finish first you must first finish.

I just keep working.

Just enough sense to stick with something-a chore, task, project, until its completed pays off much better than idle intelligence, even if idle intelligence be of genius caliber.

If you believe in something, you must will it through, because everything gets in the way. Everyone tries to steer the ship off course.

I think one of the most important attributes is perseverance.

Everything yields to diligence.

Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now.

I can plod. I can persevere in any definite pursuit. To this I owe everything.

To make our way, we must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity. We must gear ourselves to work hard all the way. We can never let up.

Nothing earthly will make me give up my work in despair.

I just keep my head down and work hard on what I do.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

It had been better not to begin a good work, than to think of desisting from one which has been begun.

You just put your head down and do the work.

You just never give up. You do a task to the best of your abilities and beyond.

Persistence pays off.

When I am doing something I give it 100 per cent. I work on it, do it and go onto the next thing.

I have to be patient, keep performing, and be consistent.

I don't want to leave the field for a little thing. I try to be ready every day.