Perseverance Quotes

Every great achievement required someone who refused to quit. These quotes tell that story.

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"Never stop doing your best just because someone doesn't give you credit."
Ella Fitzgerald
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"You just have to persevere and keep on going."
Ella Fitzgerald
"The more you practice, the better you become at your craft."
Igor Stravinsky
"The strength comes not from having everything easy, but from getting back up when you fall."
Louis Armstrong
"The more you practice, the luckier you get."
Miles Davis
"Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself."
Miles Davis
"You learn from your mistakes, not your successes."
Miles Davis
"Every day is a chance to improve."
Miles Davis
"A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits."
Duke Ellington
"I persist because persistence is the only real guarantee in life."
Duke Ellington
"I believe in constant improvement and never settling for mediocrity."
John Coltrane
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"The measure of success is not what you have accomplished, but the obstacles you have overcome."
Ella Fitzgerald
"Technique is something you acquire through constant repetition and dedication."
Charlie Parker
"I've learned more from my failures than from my successes."
Charlie Parker
"The sweetness of playing comes from the struggle."
Charlie Parker
"The piano is a democracy - anyone can play it if they work hard enough."
George Gershwin
"Hard work beats talent when talent isn't willing to work hard."
George Gershwin
"Perseverance is not about never falling; it's about rising with greater commitment each time."
John Coltrane
"Motion toward mastery requires you to release your attachment to immediate results."
John Coltrane
"The worst that can happen to an artist is not failure, but comfortable stagnation."
Igor Stravinsky
"Mastery is the result of ten thousand hours of disciplined effort."
Igor Stravinsky
"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other."
Claude Debussy
"Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did."
Claude Debussy
"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."
Claude Debussy
"I wanted to play bebop, but I couldn't because I didn't have enough technique."
Miles Davis
"Perseverance is the bridge between struggle and triumph."
Miles Davis
"Perseverance separates the dreamers from the doers."
Miles Davis
"Don't practice until you get it right - practice until you can't get it wrong."
Louis Armstrong
"I've been poor and I've been struggling, but I've always had my music."
Louis Armstrong
"I've written perhaps a dozen memorable melodies in my life - that's not bad for a lifetime of work."
George Gershwin