Perseverance Quotes
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Defeat is simply a signal to press onward. (Quote by - Helen Keller)
By perseverance the snail reached the ark. (Quote by - Charles Haddon Spurgeon)
What it is saying is that someone who was a world champion and who takes care of himself with a 17-year rest and applies the proper training techniques and perseverance could be successful. (Quote by - Mark Spitz)
Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy. (Quote by - Bill Blackman)
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for it is just the place and time that the tide will turn. (Quote by - Harriet Beecher Stowe)
You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction. (Quote by - George Horace Lorimer)
Perseverance… keeps honor bright: to have done, is to hang quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail in monumental mockery. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves. (Quote by - Major Taylor)
One may go a long way after one is tired. (Quote by - French Proverb)
Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear. (Quote by - Dale Carnegie)
It is not necessary to hope in order to undertake, nor to succeed in order to persevere. (Quote by - Charles the Bold)
Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. (Quote by - Josh Billings)
Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting. (Quote by - Christopher Morley)
I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature. (Quote by - John D. Rockefeller)
Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little. (Quote by - Plutarch)
Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did. (Quote by - Newt Gingrich)
Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health. (Quote by - Lord Chesterfield)
Perseverance, secret of all triumphs. (Quote by - Victor Hugo)
It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired. (Quote by - Robert Strauss)
You win some, you lose some, and some get rained out, but you gotta suit up for them all. (Quote by - J. Askenberg)
Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority. (Quote by - Vince Lombardi)
Adhere to your purpose and you will soon feel as well as you ever did. On the contrary, if you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and will regret it all your life. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
As a means to success, determination has this advantage over talent - that it does not have to be recognized by others. (Quote by - Robert Brault)
'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause, - and of obstinacy in a bad one. (Quote by - Laurence Sterne)
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. (Quote by - William Feather)
Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times. (Quote by - Napoleon Hill)
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand. (Quote by - Vince Lombardi)
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves. (Quote by - Dale Carnegie)
No is a word on your path to Yes. Don't give up too soon. Not even if well-meaning parents, relatives, friends, and colleagues tell you to get a real job. Your dreams are your real job (Quote by - Joyce Spizer)
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
God helps those who persevere. (Quote by - The Koran)
Many strokes, though with a little axe, Hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
But the moment you turn a corner you see another straight stretch ahead and there comes some further challenge to your ambition. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.)
When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. (Quote by - Franklin D. Roosevelt)
The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. (Quote by - Chinese Proverb)
It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop. (Quote by - Confucius)
All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you. (Quote by - Walt Disney)
If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
A door opens to me. I go in and am faced with a hundred closed doors. (Quote by - Antonio Porchia)
Be patient and calm - for no one can catch fish in anger. (Quote by - Herbert Hoover)
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races, one after another. (Quote by - Walter Elliott)
To tend, unfailingly, unflinchingly, towards a goal, is the secret of success. (Quote by - Anna Pavlova)
Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
A philosopher once said, He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. I would add, He who has a why to lead can bear almost any trial. (Quote by - Leslie Bains)
Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back. (Quote by - Plutarch)
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on. (Quote by - Robert Frost)
There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose. (Quote by - Kin Hubbard)
There's nothing in this world that comes easy. There are a lot of people who aren't going to bother to win. We learn in football to get up and go once more. (Quote by - Woody Hayes)
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day. (Quote by - Jim Rohn)
A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down. (Quote by - Robert Benchley)
Do not turn back when you are just at the goal. (Quote by - Syrus)
I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end. (Quote by - Margaret Thatcher)
I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles. (Quote by - Christopher Reeve)
Even the woodpecker owes his success to the fact that he uses his head and keeps pecking away until he finishes the job he starts. (Quote by - Coleman Cox)
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. (Quote by - Franklin D. Roosevelt)
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity. (Quote by - Louis Pasteur)
Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears. (Quote by - Gillian Anderson)
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)
Failure is often that early morning hour of darkness which precedes the dawning of the day of success. (Quote by - Leigh Mitchell Hodges)
Saints are sinners who kept on going. (Quote by - Robert Louis Stevenson)
Until I die, I'm going to keep doing. My people need me. They need somebody that's not taking from them and is giving them something. (Quote by - Clara McBride Hale)
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities, always see them, for they're always there. (Quote by - Norman Vincent Peale)
There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried. (Quote by - Toni Morrison)
If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking. (Quote by - Buddhist Saying)
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years. (Quote by - Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
For me, at least, there came moments when faith wavered. But there is the great lesson and the great triumph: keep the fire burning until, by and by, out of the mass of sordid details there comes some result. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres, and infallibly prevails at last. (Quote by - Lord Chesterfield)
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit. (Quote by - Conrad Hilton)
A leader, once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one, must....be undaunted when the going gets tough. (Quote by - Ronald Reagan)
I am tied to the stake, and I must stand the course. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Press on! A better fate awaits thee. (Quote by - Victor Hugo)
Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours. (Quote by - Ayn Rand)
Everything that I've ever been able to accomplish in skating and in life has come out of adversity and perseverance. (Quote by - Scott Hamilton)
The road to perseverance lies by doubt. (Quote by - Francis Quarles)
The secret of success is constancy to purpose. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable. (Quote by - Theodore N. Vail)
You have to keep plugging away. We are all growing. There is no shortcut. You have to put time into it to build an audience (Quote by - John Gruber)
IF we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation, we shall find manifest examples of premeditation, perseverance, resolution, and consumate artifice, in order to effect their purpose. (Quote by - William Bartram)
It's perseverance that's the key. It's persevering for long enough to achieve your potential. (Quote by - Lynn Davies)
Having chosen our course, without guile and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear and with manly hearts. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
You can do what you want to do, accomplish what you want to accomplish, attain any reasonable objective ... if you want it, if you will to do it, if you work to do it, over a sufficiently long period of time. (Quote by - William E. Holler)
Try not to do too many things at once. Know what you want, the number one thing today and tomorrow. Persevere and get it done. (Quote by - George Allen)
I wish the Peace Corps and its volunteers continued success and perseverance. We are grateful for their contributions to society and dedication to providing assistance where it is needed. May the Peace Corps continue its legacy of service, both at home and abroad. (Quote by - Kenny Marchant)
Success is down to perseverance, ability, skills and experience, but it is also about being given an opportunity. (Quote by - Leigh Clifford)
When you stop talking, you've lost your customer. (Quote by - Estee Lauder)
Who of us is able to read and understand and be entirely confident of the validity of his title to the land he lives on, and which he has redeemed from a state of nature by the most indefatigable industry and perseverance? (Quote by - William H. Wharton)
Hope: A pathological belief in the occurrence of the impossible. (Quote by - H. L. Mencken)
For all things difficult to acquire, the intelligent man works with perseverance. (Quote by - Lao Tzu)
Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry. (Quote by - Samuel Smiles)
Perseverance... keeps honor bright: to have done, is to hang quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail in monumental mockery. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good. (Quote by - Thomas J. Watson, Jr.)
Fall seven times, stand up eight. (Quote by - Japanese Proverb)
Long distance running is particularly good training in perseverance. (Quote by - Mao Zedong)
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. (Quote by - Dolly Parton)
There is nothing in life so difficult that it cannot be overcome. This faith can move mountains. It can change people. It can change the world. You can survive all the great storms in your life. (Quote by - Dr. Norman Vincent Peale)
Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use. (Quote by - Earl Nightingale)
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats. (Quote by - B.C. Forbes)
To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by. (Quote by - Stephen Baker)
The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is, that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing. (Quote by - Seneca)
Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek. (Quote by - Mario Andretti)
Any man can work when every stroke of his hands brings down the fruit rattling from the tree ... but to labor in season and out of season, under every discouragement... that requires a heroism which is transcendent. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. (Quote by - John Quincy)
I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success. (Quote by - Tanya Tucker)
For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again. (Quote by - Bible)
The stubbornness I had as a child has been transmitted into perseverance. I can let go but I don't give up. I don't beat myself up about negative things. (Quote by - Phylicia Rashad)
Grudge no expense-yield to no opposition-forget fatigue-till, by the strength of prayer and sacrifice, the spirit of love shall have overcome. (Quote by - Maria Weston Chapman)
There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time. (Quote by - Johann von Goethe)
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave. (Quote by - Calvin Coolidge)
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail. (Quote by - Napoleon Hill)
Nothing in the world can take place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful individuals 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. (Quote by - Calvin Coolidge)
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragement, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
As an entrepreneur, I am often asked how I kept my perseverance. Well, persevere comes from the Latin roots purse, as in "money," and sever, as in "cut off." That's why I persevered. (Quote by - Brian Morgan)
A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination. (Quote by - Tommy Lasorda)
Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure. (Quote by - George Eliot)
To look back is to relax one's vigil. (Quote by - Bette Davis)
Victory belongs to the most persevering. (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)
The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it - so fine that we often are on the line and do not know it. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top. (Quote by - Paul Coffey)
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all. (Quote by - Dale Carnegie)
I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It's a voice of pain and victory. (Quote by - Anthony Hamilton)
Success in life is a matter not so much of talent or opportunity as of concentration and perseverance. (Quote by - C. W. Wendte)
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. (Quote by - Theodore Roosevelt)
Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel. (Quote by - G. K. Chesterton)
Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours. (Quote by - Orison Swett Marden)
I think one of the most important attributes is perseverance. (Quote by - David Rose)
Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th. (Quote by - Julie Andrews)
I'll admit that it's not easy to get an agent, but becoming successful in anything requires perseverance. (Quote by - Nicholas Sparks)
To create a little flower is the labour of ages. (Quote by - William Blake)
If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down. (Quote by - Mary Pickford)
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to. (Quote by - George Allen)
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines. (Quote by - Robert Schuller)
Attempt the end and never stand to doubt; Nothing's so hard, but search will find it out. (Quote by - Robert Herrick)
So Satan, whom repulse upon repulse Met ever, and to shameful silence brought, Yet gives not o'er though desperate of success. (Quote by - John Milton)
No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance. (Quote by - Ramana Maharshi)
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
Perseverance is a virtue that cannot be understated. (Quote by - Bob Riley)
He who would do some great thing in this short life, must apply himself to the work with such a concentration of his forces as to the idle spectators, who live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity. (Quote by - John Foster)
Thankfully, perseverance is a good substitute for talent (Quote by - Steve Martin)
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling. (Quote by - Lucretius)
It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles. (Quote by - Washington Irving)
Perseverance, dear my lord, Keeps honor bright; to have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mock'ry. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Keep the faith, don't lose your perseverance and always trust your gut extinct. (Quote by - Paula Abdul)
Without perseverance talent is a barren bed. (Quote by - Welsh proverb)
Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was. (Quote by - Richard L. Evans)
Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul. (Quote by - Douglas MacArthur)
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self-esteem that is priceless. (Quote by - Scott Hamilton)
It always seems impossible until its done. (Quote by - Nelson Mandela)
Those who would attain to any marked degree of excellence in a chosen pursuit must work, and work hard for it, prince or peasant. (Quote by - Bayard Taylor)
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
He who does not believe in miracles is not a realist. (Quote by - Anton Rupert)
The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
We, of our time, have played our part in the perseverance, and we have pledged ourselves to the dead generations who have preserved intact for us this glorious heritage, that we, too, will strive to be faithful to the end, and pass on this tradition unblemished. (Quote by - Eamon de Valera)
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. (Quote by - Anne Bradstreet)
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you. (Quote by - Brian Tracy)
There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time. (Quote by - Anne Sophie Swetchine)
Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want it right now! (Quote by - Oren Arnold)
Perseverance is king. (Quote by - Josh Billings)
With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable. (Quote by - Sir Thomas Foxwell Buxton)
Take heart again; put your dismal fears away. One day, who knows? Even these hardships will be grand things to look back on. (Quote by - Virgil)
The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success. (Quote by - David Sarnoff)
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
If you are truly flexible and go until . . . there is really very little you can't accomplish in your lifetime. (Quote by - Anthony Robbins)
Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down. (Quote by - Charles F. Kettering)
The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night. (Quote by - Thomas S. Monson)
Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall. (Quote by - Sydney Harris)
A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose - a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve. (Quote by - John Maxwell)
Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow. (Quote by - Plutarch)
Try and fail, but don't fail to try. (Quote by - Stephen Kaggwa)
But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character, leadership, creativity, perseverance. (Quote by - William J. Wilson)
Genius is divine perseverance. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have. (Quote by - Woodrow T. Wilson)
Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. (Quote by - Epictetus)
The waters wear the stones: thou washeth away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man. (Quote by - Bible)
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. (Quote by - William James)
You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make. (Quote by - Gorden B. Hinkley)
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward. (Quote by - Thomas A. Edison)
What everyone in the astronaut corps shares in common is not gender or ethnic background, but motivation, perseverance, and desire - the desire to participate in a voyage of discovery. (Quote by - Ellen Ochoa)
In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance. (Quote by - Mao Tse-Tung)
Energy and persistence conquer all things. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error. (Quote by - Marcus Tullius Cicero)
The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of determination. (Quote by - Vince Lombardi)
We conquer by continuing. (Quote by - George Matheson)
I need a teacher quite as much as Helen. I know the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life, if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it. (Quote by - Anne Sullivan Macy)
The soft droppes of raine perce the hard Marble, many strokes overthrow the tallest Oke. (Quote by - John Lyly)
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. (Quote by - Margaret Thatcher)
We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us. (Quote by - Christian Nestell Bovee)
Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)
Stubbornly persist, and you will find that the limits of your stubbornness go well beyond the stubbornness of your limits. (Quote by - Robert Brault)
Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life. (Quote by - Pythagoras)
A 41-inch bust and a lot of perseverance will get you more than a cup of coffee - a lot more. (Quote by - Jayne Mansfield)
If you don't wake up with something in your stomach every day that makes you think, "I want to make this movie," it'll never get made. (Quote by - Sherry Lansing)
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience. (Quote by - Admiral Hyman Rickover)
Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent. (Quote by - William Cobbett)
You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you. (Quote by - John Bunyon)
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed, is more important than any other one thing. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
The flower that follows the sun does so even in cloudy days. (Quote by - Robert Leighton)
If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
Be like a postage stamp-stick to one thing until you get there. (Quote by - Josh Billings)
I hold a doctrine, to which I owe not much, indeed, but all the little I ever had, namely, that with ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable. (Quote by - Sir T. F. Buxton)
We will either find a way or make one. (Quote by - Hannibal)
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained. (Quote by - Madam Marie Curie)
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. (Quote by - F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel. (Quote by - Napoleon Hill)
Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Do not think that what is hard for thee to master is impossible for man; but if a thing is possible and proper to man, deem it attainable by thee. (Quote by - Marcus Aurelius)
If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again. (Quote by - Flavia Weedn)
Much has been accomplished during the last year in the campaign against terrorism. This struggle will require vigilance, perseverance and sacrifice for many years to come. (Quote by - Paul Cellucci)
Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew. (Quote by - Saint Francis de Sales)
The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never blanches, the thought that never wanders, the purpose that never wavers - these are the masters of victory. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions. (Quote by - Lao Tzu)
But Hercules himself must yield to odds; And many strokes, though with a little axe, Hews down and fells the hardest-timbered oak. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation. (Quote by - Jean Kerr)
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them. (Quote by - G.B. Shaw)
The U.S. Olympic spirit award is an award that is given to an athlete who embodies the Olympic spirit in more ways than just on the playing field, in showing incredible perseverance, in overcoming obstacles, and what we wanted to do is have everybody can vote on-line. (Quote by - Brian Boitano)
The important thing in life is to have great aim and to possess the aptitude and the perseverance to attain it. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
Persistence and determinationalone are omnipotent. The slogan press on has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. (Quote by - Calvin Coolidge)
In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm; in the real world, all rests on perseverance. (Quote by - Johann von Goethe)
Without sweat and toil no work is made perfect. (Quote by - Latin Proverb)
In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins- not through strength but by perseverance. (Quote by - H. Jackson Brown)
The drop hollows out the stone not by strength, but by constant falling. (Quote by - Plutarch)
Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire. (Quote by - William Godwin)
My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you've got to be a filmmaker. (Quote by - Robert Wise)
The characteristic of a genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
For thine own purpose, thou hast sent The strife and the discouragement! (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
When it goes wrong, you feel like cutting your throat, but you go on. You don't let anything get you down so much that it beats you or stops you. (Quote by - George Cukor)
It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married. (Quote by - Robert Frost)
The fall of dropping water wears away the stone. (Quote by - Lucretius)
No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning. (Quote by - Richard Petty)
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air. (Quote by - John Quincy Adams)
We shall escape the uphill by never turning back. (Quote by - Christina G. Rossetti)
To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. (Quote by - Euripides)
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. (Quote by - Dale Carnegie)
Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
