<p><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" title="Chris Widener - motivational speaker" src="https://www.getmotivation.com/images/speakers_images/chriswidener-07.jpg" alt="Chris Widener" width="110" height="135" align="left" /><em>&#8220;Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people 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. The slogan &#8216;press on&#8217; has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.&#8221; &#8211; Calvin Coolidge</em></p>
<p>I have worked with many successful people; people who have achieved the kinds of lives they have dreamed about. I have also worked with many people who are not anywhere near where they want to be in life. Many times those who are not successful resent those who are and believe that somehow success was handed to those who have achieved much. <span class="post-teaser-more"><br /><br />&nbsp;=>> <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2011/02/the-importance-of-being-tenacious-by-chris-widener/" title="Permanent Link: The Importance Of Being Tenacious! By Chris Widener" rel="bookmark">Click to read the full article...</a> <i></span></p>{"id":375,"date":"2011-02-17T05:01:29","date_gmt":"2011-02-17T10:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/?p=375"},"modified":"2023-07-17T17:58:27","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T22:58:27","slug":"the-importance-of-being-tenacious-by-chris-widener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2011\/02\/the-importance-of-being-tenacious-by-chris-widener\/","title":{"rendered":"The Importance Of Being Tenacious! By Chris Widener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Chris Widener - motivational speaker\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/images\/speakers_images\/chriswidener-07.jpg\" alt=\"Chris Widener\" width=\"110\" height=\"135\" align=\"left\" \/><em>&#8220;Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people 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. The slogan &#8216;press on&#8217; has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.&#8221; &#8211; Calvin Coolidge<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I have worked with many successful people; people who have achieved the kinds of lives they have dreamed about. I have also worked with many people who are not anywhere near where they want to be in life. Many times those who are not successful resent those who are and believe that somehow success was handed to those who have achieved much. <span class=\"post-teaser-more\"><br \/><br \/>&nbsp;=>> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2011\/02\/the-importance-of-being-tenacious-by-chris-widener\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: The Importance Of Being Tenacious! By Chris Widener\" rel=\"bookmark\">Click to read the full article...<\/a> <i><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}