Quotes on Perseverance

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

Many companies aspire to change the world. But very few have all the elements required: talent, resources and perseverance. Microsoft has proven that it has all three in abundance.

Any child can be taught to be beautifully behaved with no effort greater than quiet patience and perseverance, whereas to break bad habits once they are acquired is a Herculean task.

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.

Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.

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

Raising your level of performance requires a proper mentality and meaning from within. This gives you the ability and drive to work on the things necessary to go to a higher level. When people ask me how to raise their level of performance, the first thing I ask is, How important is it to you?

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.

Rely on the ordinary virtues that intelligent, balanced human beings have relied on for centuries: common sense, thrift, realistic expectations, patience, and perseverance.

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.

Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

He who has infinite patience and infinite energy at his back, will alone succeed.

Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal.

We are not a failure just because we fail at something. Nobody is a failure unless they quit trying!

If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.

Winners never quit and quitters never win.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

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

Nothing can be done except little by little.

Here is the great secret of success. Work with all your might; but trust not in the least in your work. Pray with all your might for the blessing of God; but work, at the same time, with all diligence, with all patience, with all perseverance. Pray then, and work. Work and pray. And still again pray, and then work. And so on all the days of your life. The result will surely be, abundant blessing. Whether you see much fruit or little fruit, such kind of service will be blessed.