Quotes on Perseverance

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

And you very soon find out, if you have not found it out before, that patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

You've got to say, "I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it." It's called perseverance.

Fight one more round. When your arms are so tired that you can hardly lift your hands to come on guard, fight one more round. When your nose is bleeding and your eyes are black and you are so tired that you wish your opponent would crack you one on the jaw and put you to sleep, fight one more round - remembering that the man who always fights one more round is never whipped.

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.

Every obstacle yields to stern resolve.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

Do not be impatient with your seemingly slow progress. Do not try to run faster than you presently can. If you are studying, reflecting and trying, you are making progress whether you are aware of it or not. A traveler walking the road in the darkness of night is still going forward. Someday, some way, everything will break open, like the natural unfolding of a rosebud.

If you focus on the obstacles, then you give them more power. Instead focus on your purpose, on your most authentic and fundamental intentions.

Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.

He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls aren't there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want things.

Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

You must be really bad, because it is a puzzle. Creating anything is hard. It’s a cliché thing to say, but every time you start a job, you just don’t know anything. I mean, I can break something down, but ultimately I don’t know anything when I start work on a new movie. You start stabbing out, and you make a mistake, and it’s not right, and then you try again and again. The key is you have to commit. And that’s hard because you have to find what it is you are committing to.

One is defeated only when one accepts defeat.

Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

The path from dreams to success does exist. May you have the vision to find it, the courage to get on to it, and the perseverance to follow it.