Quotes on Perseverence

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.

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

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.

Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

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.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

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.

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

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.

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

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.

We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.

Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.

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.