Quotes on Perseverance

If you pour your heart into your work, or into any worthy enterprise, you can achieve dreams others may think impossible.

Repetition is the mother of skill.

When I am through learning, I am through.

Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.

Every worthwhile accomplishment has a price tag attached to it. The question is always whether you are willing to pay the price to attain it - in hard work, sacrifice, patience, faith, and endurance.

"Genius is divine perseverance." Divine patience I believe he originally used, perseverance is better in my opinion. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.

Thankfully, perseverance is a good substitute for talent.

If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.

It does not matter how many times you get knocked down, but how many times you get up.

Value is that which one acts to gain and/or keep. Virtue is the act by which one aims and/or keeps it.

The longing to behold this pre-established harmony [of phenomena and theoretical principles] is the source of the inexhaustible patience and perseverance with which Planck has devoted himself ... The state of mind which enables a man to do work of this kind is akin to that of the religious worshiper or the lover; the daily effort comes from no deliberate intention or program, but straight from the heart.

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

If you want to be successful in a particular field or endeavor, I think perseverance is one of the key qualities. It's very important that you find something that you care about, that you have a deep passion for, because you're going to have to devote a lot of your life to it.

I used to want the words 'She tried' on my tombstone. Now I want 'She did it.'

No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.

It would be naïve to think that peace and justice can be achieved easily. No set of rules or study of history will automatically resolve the problems ... However, with faith and perseverance, ... complex problems in the past have been resolved in our search for justice and peace.

Emotional self-awareness is the building block of the next fundamental emotional intelligence: being able to shake off a bad mood.

The basis of self-government and freedom requires the development of character and self-restraint and perseverance and the long view. And these are qualities which require many years of training and education.

Pay no attention to what the critics say; _x000D_ _x000D_ no statue has ever been erected to a critic.

I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.