Quotes on Inspirational 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!''

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.

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

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

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.

Success ... seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

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.

Give light, and people will find the way...

The miracle or the power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance under the promptings of a brave, determined spirit.

Knowing what must be done does away with fear.

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

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.

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

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

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

You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.

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

Never give up on something that you can't go a day without thinking about.

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