Quotes on Perseverance

Perseverance has kept me going over the years. Things rarely happen overnight. Filmmakers should be prepared for many years of hard work. The sheer toil can be healthy and exhilarating.

One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.

Imagination, devotion, perseverance, together with divine grace, will assure your success.

We have not faith, we have not patience to see this. We trust the man in the street; but there is one being in the universe we never trust and that is God. We trust Him when He works just our way. But the time will come when, getting blow after blow, the self - sufficient mind will die. In everything we do, the serpent ego is rising up. We are glad that there are so many thorns on the path. They strike the hood of the cobra.

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 and spirit have done wonders in all ages.

I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.

He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

A principle is a principle and in no case can it be watered down because of our incapacity to live it in practice. We have to strive to achieve it, and the striving should be conscious, deliberate and hard.

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.

It's never crowded along the extra mile.

The only guarantee for failure is to stop trying

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Final perseverance is the necessary evidence of genuine conversion.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

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

Brick walls are there for a reason. They give us a chance to show how badly we want

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

How you start is important, very important, but in the end it is how you finish that counts. It is easier to be a self-starter than a self-finisher. The victor in the race is not the one who dashes off swiftest but the one who leads at the finish. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter in life's race. In America we breed many hares but not so many tortoises.

Perseverance has always just been something that was in me. And it was a tool that came in very handy as a ballerina.