Quotes on Perserverance

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.

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

War, like most other things, is a science to be acquired and perfected by diligence, by perserverance, by time, and by practice.

Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.

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.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

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

The power of a movement lies in the fact that it can indeed change the habits of people. This change is not the result of force but of dedication, of moral persuasion.

Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong.

All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man has taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.

Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow

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.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.

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

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.

He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.