Quotes on Persistence Inspirational

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.

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.

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

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

Determination is the wake-up call to the human will.

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

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.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

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

You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.

The art of love is largely the art of persistence.