A Quote by Napoleon Hill

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Napoleon Hill

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Patience Success Combination Make Persistence Perspiration Unbeatable

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Napoleon Hill
American - Author
October 26, 1883 - November 8, 1970

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

David Einhorn

Youth and vision make an unbeatable combination.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi

Ability and guts is an unbeatable combination.

Eamon Dunphy

Modern man is conditioned to expect instant gratification, but any success or triumph realized quickly, with only marginal effort, is necessarily shallow. Meaningful achievement takes time, hard work, persistence, patience, proper intent and self-awareness. The path to success is punctuated by failure, consolidation, and renewed effort.

Mark Twight

Followers who tell the truth, and leaders who listen to it, are an unbeatable combination.

Warren G. Bennis

The line between failure and success is so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it. How many a person has thrown up his or her hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience, would have achieved success. A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

Elbert Hubbard

Success requires persistence, the ability to not give up in the face of failure. I believe that optimistic explanatory style is the key to persistence.

Martin Seligman

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Maya Angelou

Put the kids in with a few old pappy guys who still like to win and the combination is unbeatable.

Conn Smythe

The most important attribute for success in value investing is patience, patience, and more patience. The majority of investors do not possess this characteristic.

Peter Cundill

Persistence means giving full concentration to whatever you are doing right now. ... Persistence is success through trial, error, resetting your goals, and moving toward the target.

Denis Waitley

Success is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.

Stephen Leacock

Success comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration, and inspiration!

Denise Austin

Success is 90% perspiration and 10% inspiration!

Thomas A. Edison

Our levels of desire, patience, persistence, and confidence end up playing a much larger role in success than sheer reasoning powers. Feel motivated and energized, we can overcome almost anything. Feeling bored and restless, our minds shut off and we become increasingly passive.