Quotes on Determination And Persistence

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!''

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.

Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.

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.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

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.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

I ran and ran and ran every day, and I acquired this sense of determination, this sense of spirit that I would never, never give up, no matter what else happened.

The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.

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

The best way out is always through.

Determination is the wake-up call to the human will.

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

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

Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

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.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

Every obstacle yields to stern resolve.