Quotes on Persistence

Persistence is probably the single most common quality of high achievers. They simply refuse to give up. They longer you hang in there, the greater the chance that something will happen in your favor. No matter how hard it seems, the longer you persist the more likely your success.

Worrying gets you nowhere. If you turn up worrying about how you're going to perform, you've already lost. Train hard, turn up, run your best and the rest will take care of itself.

As the pen rises from the page between words, so the walker's feet rise and fall between paces, and as the deer continues to run as it bounds from the earth and the dolphin continues to swim even as it leaps again and again from the sea, so writing and wayfaring are continuous activities, a running stitch, a persistence of the same seam or stream.

There is a budding morrow in midnight.

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.

Our levels of desire, patience, persistence, and confidence end up playing a much larger role in success than sheer reasoning powers. Feel motivated and energized, we can overcome almost anything. Feeling bored and restless, our minds shut off and we become increasingly passive.

The Warrior knows the value of persistence and of courage.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.

The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows.

There is nothing so far removed from us as to be beyond our reach, or so hidden that we cannot discover it.

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

Successful charitable fund-raising has much in common with managing a business: It requires leadership, persistence, and creativity.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor, the conquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

There is no magic to achievement. It's really about hard work, choices, and persistence.

No great achievement is possible without persistent work.

The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.

The breeze of grace is always blowing; set your sail to catch that breeze.

Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.