Perseverance Quotes

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

It always seems impossible until its done.

The best way out is always through.

There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it.

Thankfully, perseverance is a great substitute for talent.

You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.

The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

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 "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give.

I will find a way — or make one.

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

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.

Life, Stormy says, is not about how fast you run or even with what degree of grace. It's about perseverance, about staying on your feet and slogging forward no matter what.

My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.

I believe life is constantly testing us for our level of commitment, and life's greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never-ending commitment to act until they achieve. This level of resolve can move mountains, but it must be constant and consistent. As simplistic as this may sound, it is still the common denominator separating those who live their dreams from those who live in regret.

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears.

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.

Determination and perseverance move the world; thinking that others will do it for you is a sure way to fail.

Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.

Try and fail,but don't fail to try.

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

Milton Berle is an inspiration to every young person that wants to get into show business. Hard work, perseverance, and discipline: all the things you need...when you have no talent.

He who allows oppression shares the crime.

Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.

If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.

When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.

If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light, not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of his daily work.

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men 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.

Character is long-standing habit.

One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

Nothing can be done except little by little.

I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.

How long should you try? Until.

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

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.

If you rest, you rust.

It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.

Grudge no expense - yield to no opposition - forget fatigue - till, by the strength of prayer and sacrifice, the spirit of love shall have overcome .

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

Destiny has a lot to do with it, but so do you. You have to persevere, you have to insist.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

To tend, unfailingly, unflinchingly, towards a goal, is the secret of success.

If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, ''Here comes number seventy-one!''

It's a long old road, but I know I'm gonna find the end.

Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

The triumph can't be had without the struggle.

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.

Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.

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.

Once I decide to do something, I can't have people telling me I can't. If there's a roadblock, you jump over it, walk around it, crawl under it.

The greater the effort, the greater the glory.

Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.

The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.

Failure is not the falling down but the staying down.

I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult... I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage.

I try. I am trying. I was trying. I will try. I shall in the meantime try. I sometimes have tried. I shall still by that time be trying.

Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.

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.

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.

You cannot fake effort; talent is great, but perseverance is necessary.

The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.

Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for.

Success in life is the ability to move from one mistake to another without loosing enthusiasm.