Quotes on Determination Perseverance

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.

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.

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

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.

If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

There's only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything.

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

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

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances.

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

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.

If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

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.