Persistent
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
―
Winston Churchill
“Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete? Proving nature's laws wrong, it learned to walk without having feet. Funny, it seems to by keeping it's dreams; it learned to breathe fresh air. Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else even cared.”
―
Tupac Shakur,
The Rose That Grew from Concrete
“Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan Press On! has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.”
―
Calvin Coolidge
“If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.”
―
Winston Churchill
“The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.”
―
Thomas A. Edison
“It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward.”
―
Louis Sachar
“If you run out of ideas follow the road; you'll get there”
―
Edgar Allan Poe
“You never know what's around the corner. It could be everything. Or it could be nothing. You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you've climbed a mountain.”
―
Tom Hiddleston
“Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.”
―
Hal Borland
“Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.”
―
James A. Michener
“In my experience, nothing worthwhile has ever really been all that easy. But it certainly has been worthwhile regardless how difficult it seemed. ”
―
Robert Fanney
“Unless God has raised you up for this very thing, you will be worn out by the opposition of men and devils. But if God be for you, who can be against you? Are all of them together stronger than God? O be not weary of well doing!”
―
John Wesley
“We are made to persist.
that's how we find out who we are.”
―
Tobias Wolff
“Life isn't as magical here, and you're not the only one who feels like you don't belong, or that it's better somewhere else. But there ARE things worth living for. And the best part is you never know what's going to happen next.”
―
O.R. Melling,
The Summer King
“...When you die, the energy that kept you alive filters into the people you loved. Did you know that? It's like a fire you've tended all your life, and the sparks are all scattered into the wind.... That's why we survive as long as we do, because the people who loved us keep us going.”
―
Kevin Brockmeier,
The View from the Seventh Layer
“The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is, that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.”
―
Henry Ward Beecher
“I wrote a book. It sucked. I wrote nine more books. They sucked, too. Meanwhile, I read every single thing I could find on publishing and writing, went to conferences, joined professional organizations, hooked up with fellow writers in critique groups, and didn’t give up. Then I wrote one more book.”
―
Beth Revis
“Don't ever give up.
Don't ever give in.
Don't ever stop trying.
Don't ever sell out.
And if you find yourself succumbing to one of the above for a brief moment,
pick yourself up, brush yourself off, whisper a prayer, and start where you left off.
But never, ever, ever give up.”
―
Richelle E. Goodrich,
Eena, The Two Sisters
“Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.”
―
Peter F. Drucker
“They key of persistence opens all door closed by resistence ”
―
John Di Lemme
“No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That's the only way to keep the roads clear.”
―
Greg Kincaid
“If you wish to be out front, then act as if you were behind.”
―
Lao Tzu
“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.”
―
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Really, there was only one sensible thing to do. Stay the course. Pray it through, day by day, minute by minute. The Lord had an answer and it would surely come. (p. 203)”
―
Janice Hanna,
Love Finds You in Poetry, Texas
“Cat, I'll let you in on a little secret. We don't all love our jobs every day. And doing something you have passion for doesn't make the work part of it any easier...It just makes you less likely to quit." ~ Georgia "The Friday Night Knitting Club”
―
Kate Jacobs,
The Friday Night Knitting Club
“The rewrites are a struggle right now. Sometimes I wish writing a book could just be easy for me at last. But when I think about it practically, I am glad it's a struggle. I am (as usual) attempting to write a book that's too hard for me. I'm telling a story I'm not smart enough to tell. The risk of failure is huge. But I prefer it this way. I'm forced to learn, forced to smarten myself up, forced to wrestle. And if it works, then I'll have written something that is better than I am.”
―
Shannon Hale
“Rain puts a hole in stone because of its constancy, not its force. Just keep knocking on doors until the right one opens”
― H. Joseph Gerber
“The practice of forgiveness is very much like the practice of meditation. You have to do it often and persist at it in order to be any good.”
―
Katerina Stoykova Klemer
“A mans life is interesting primarily when he has failed. I well know. For its a sign that he tried to surpass himself.”
―
Georges Clemenceau
“A friend of mine, the most innocuous dreamer who ever lived, once set a forest on fire to see, as he said, if it would catch as easily as people said. The first ten times the experiment was a failure; but on the eleventh it succeeded all too well.”
―
Charles Baudelaire,
Paris Spleen
“Do it badly; do it slowly; do it fearfully; do it any way you have to, but do it.”
― Steve Chandler, Reinventing Yourself: How to Become the Person You've Always Wanted to Be
Persistence quotes points out the one big factor that set the
successful people apart from the rest - the quality of being persistent. Of perseverance and never giving up.
As you reflect upon your life, how many times have you fallen down? Did you pick yourself up each time and say that you'll try again? Regardless whether it's the 5th attempt, the 19th try, the 33rd rejection you've received, do you keep on going?
I certainly need reminders to persist and this list of quotes will serve as wake-up calls during those days when I'm faltering along my journey.
Enjoy these persistence quotes and may they rekindle your spark to go after your heart's desires!
Hang on tight to your goals, dreams and let's keep on going!
Being defeated is only a temporary condition; giving up is what makes it permanent.
-- Marilyn vos Savant
Between you and every goal that you wish to achieve, there is a series of obstacles, and the bigger the goal, the bigger the obstacles. Your decision to be, have and do something out of the ordinary entails facing difficulties and challenges that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.
-- Brian Tracy
Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
-- Christopher Morley
Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.
-- Dan Rather
Decide carefully, exactly what you want in life, then work like mad to make sure you get it!
-- Hector Crawford
Don't be discouraged. It's often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.
-- Author Unknown
Effort is a commitment to seeing a task through to the end, not just until you get tired of it.
-- Howard Cate
Few people take objectives really seriously. They put average effort into too many things, rather than superior thought and effort into a few important things. People who achieve the most are selective as well as determined.
-- Richard Koch
For now you know one of the greatest principles of success; if you persist long enough you will win.
-- Og Mandino
Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there's love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.
-- Ella Fitzgerald
Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.
-- Charles F. Kettering
It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.
-- Confucius
I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has to get down to work.
-- Pearl Buck
I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
-- Christopher Reeve
If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.
-- Flavia Weedn
If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.
-- Mary Pickford
In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins; not through strength, but through persistence.
-- Author Unknown
Instead of giving myself reasons why I can't, I give myself reasons why I can.
-- Author Unknown
It is by tiny steps that we ascend the stars.
-- Jack Leedstrom
It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
-- W. Somerset Maugham
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in my tenacity.
-- Louis Pasteur
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
-- Thomas Edison
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
-- Dale Carnegie
Never give up on something that you can't go a day without thinking about.
-- Author Unknown
Never give up on what you love because some one makes fun of you. Never quit or give up. You will make it through.
-- Jessie Zaylo
Never, never, never, never give up.
-- Winston Churchill
No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
-- Agnes De Mille
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
-- Calvin Coolidge
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
-- John Heywood
One has to remember that every failure can be a stepping stone to something better.
-- Col. Harland Sanders
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
-- John Quincy Adams
Perseverance is a great element of success. If you knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.
-- Julie Andrews
That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
The human will, that force unseen,
The offspring of a deathless soul,
Can hew a wall to any goal,
Through walls of granite intervene.
-- James Allen
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
-- Napoleon Hill
The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.
-- Dr. Joyce Brothers
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
-- Tobias Wolff
We can do anything we want as long as we stick to it long enough.
-- Helen Keller
When the world says, "Give up,"
Hope whispers, 'Try it one more time.'
-- Author Unknown
When things go wrong as they sometimes will;
When the road you're trudging seems all uphill;
When the funds are low, and the debts are high
And you want to smile, but have to sigh;
When care is pressing you down a bit-
Rest if you must, but do not quit.
Success is failure turned inside out;
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt;
And you can never tell how close you are
It may be near when it seems so far;
So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit-
It's when things go wrong that you must not quit.
-- Author Unknown
When you feel like giving up, remember why you held on for so long in the first place.
-- Author Unknown
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt
You have to keep plugging away. We are all growing. There is no shortcut. You have to put time into it to build anaudience.
-- John Gruber
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.
-- Isaac Asimov
You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chances there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.
-- Charles F. Kettering
You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.
-- Marian Wright Edelman
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Persistence quotes points out the one big factor that set the successful people apart from the rest - the quality of being persistent. Of perseverance and never giving up.
As you reflect upon your life, how many times have you fallen down? Did you pick yourself up each time and say that you'll try again? Regardless whether it's the 5th attempt, the 19th try, the 33rd rejection you've received, do you keep on going?
I certainly need reminders to persist and this list of quotes will serve as wake-up calls during those days when I'm faltering along my journey.
Enjoy these persistence quotes and may they rekindle your spark to go after your heart's desires!
Hang on tight to your goals, dreams and let's keep on going!
Being defeated is only a temporary condition; giving up is what makes it permanent.
-- Marilyn vos Savant
Between you and every goal that you wish to achieve, there is a series of obstacles, and the bigger the goal, the bigger the obstacles. Your decision to be, have and do something out of the ordinary entails facing difficulties and challenges that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.
-- Brian Tracy
Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
-- Christopher Morley
Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.
-- Dan Rather
Decide carefully, exactly what you want in life, then work like mad to make sure you get it!
-- Hector Crawford
Don't be discouraged. It's often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.
-- Author Unknown
Effort is a commitment to seeing a task through to the end, not just until you get tired of it.
-- Howard Cate
Few people take objectives really seriously. They put average effort into too many things, rather than superior thought and effort into a few important things. People who achieve the most are selective as well as determined.
-- Richard Koch
For now you know one of the greatest principles of success; if you persist long enough you will win.
-- Og Mandino
Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there's love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.
-- Ella Fitzgerald
Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.
-- Charles F. Kettering
It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.
-- Confucius
I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has to get down to work.
-- Pearl Buck
I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
-- Christopher Reeve
If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.
-- Flavia Weedn
If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.
-- Mary Pickford
In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins; not through strength, but through persistence.
-- Author Unknown
Instead of giving myself reasons why I can't, I give myself reasons why I can.
-- Author Unknown
It is by tiny steps that we ascend the stars.
-- Jack Leedstrom
It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
-- W. Somerset Maugham
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in my tenacity.
-- Louis Pasteur
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
-- Thomas Edison
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
-- Dale Carnegie
Never give up on something that you can't go a day without thinking about.
-- Author Unknown
Never give up on what you love because some one makes fun of you. Never quit or give up. You will make it through.
-- Jessie Zaylo
Never, never, never, never give up.
-- Winston Churchill
No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
-- Agnes De Mille
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
-- Calvin Coolidge
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
-- John Heywood
One has to remember that every failure can be a stepping stone to something better.
-- Col. Harland Sanders
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
-- John Quincy Adams
Perseverance is a great element of success. If you knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.
-- Julie Andrews
That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
The human will, that force unseen,
The offspring of a deathless soul,
Can hew a wall to any goal,
Through walls of granite intervene.
-- James Allen
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
-- Napoleon Hill
The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.
-- Dr. Joyce Brothers
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
-- Tobias Wolff
We can do anything we want as long as we stick to it long enough.
-- Helen Keller
When the world says, "Give up,"
Hope whispers, 'Try it one more time.'
-- Author Unknown
When things go wrong as they sometimes will;
When the road you're trudging seems all uphill;
When the funds are low, and the debts are high
And you want to smile, but have to sigh;
When care is pressing you down a bit-
Rest if you must, but do not quit.
Success is failure turned inside out;
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt;
And you can never tell how close you are
It may be near when it seems so far;
So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit-
It's when things go wrong that you must not quit.
-- Author Unknown
When you feel like giving up, remember why you held on for so long in the first place.
-- Author Unknown
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt
You have to keep plugging away. We are all growing. There is no shortcut. You have to put time into it to build an audience.
-- John Gruber
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.
-- Isaac Asimov
You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chances there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.
-- Charles F. Kettering
You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.
-- Marian Wright Edelman
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.
-- Lee Iacoccathink that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it. It's called perseverance.
-- Lee Iacocca
Quotes on PERSEVERANCE
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"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave."
— Calvin Coolidge
30th president of the United States
"You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you."
— John Bunyon
"If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good."
— Thomas J. Watson, Jr.
"You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction."
— George Horace Lorimer
"The characteristic of a genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success."
— Dale Carnegie
"Persistence and determinationalone are omnipotent. The slogan press on has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."
— Calvin Coolidge
30th president of the United States
"Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
— Mark Twain
"Failure is often that early morning hour of darkness which precedes the dawning of the day of success."
— Leigh Mitchell Hodges
"The secret of success is constancy to purpose."
— Benjamin Disraeli
"Genius is divine perseverance. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have."
— Woodrow Wilson
"History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats."
— B.C. Forbes
"Well begun is half done."
— Aristotle
"No is a word on your path to Yes. Don't give up too soon. Not even if well-meaning parents, relatives, friends, and colleagues tell you to get a real job. Your dreams are your real job"
— Joyce Spizer
Author
"Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top."
— Paul Coffey
NHL star
"The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand."
— Vince Lombardi
"Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek."
— Mario Andretti
"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination."
— Tommy Lasorda
"Even the woodpecker owes his success to the fact that he uses his head and keeps pecking away until he finishes the job he starts."
— Coleman Cox
"Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one-yard line. They give up a the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown."
"Adhere to your purpose and you will soon feel as well as you ever did. On the contrary, if you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and will regret it all your life."
— Abraham Lincoln
June 28, 1862 in letter to Quintin Campbell
— H. Ross Perot
"It's always too soon to quit!"
— Norman Vincent Peale
"No great thing is created suddenly."
— Epictetus
"All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you."
— Walt Disney
"We will either find a way or make one."
— Hannibal, Carthaginian General
"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of determination."
— Vince Lombardi
"It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired."
— Robert Strauss
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed, is more important than any other one thing."
— Abraham Lincoln
November 5, 1855 in letter to Isham Reavis
"A philosopher once said, “He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” I would add, “He who has a why to lead can bear almost any trial."
— Leslie Bains, CEO Modern Asset Management
"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."
— Elbert Hubbard
"He who does not believe in miracles is not a realist."
— Anton Rupert, Rembrandt Group
"Thankfully, perseverance is a good substitute for talent"
Quotes on PERSEVERANCE
"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave."
— Calvin Coolidge
30th president of the United States
"You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you."
— John Bunyon
"If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good."
— Thomas J. Watson, Jr.
"You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction."
— George Horace Lorimer
"The characteristic of a genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success."
— Dale Carnegie
"Persistence and determinationalone are omnipotent. The slogan press on has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."
— Calvin Coolidge
30th president of the United States
"Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
— Mark Twain
"Failure is often that early morning hour of darkness which precedes the dawning of the day of success."
— Leigh Mitchell Hodges
"The secret of success is constancy to purpose."
— Benjamin Disraeli
"Genius is divine perseverance. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have."
— Woodrow Wilson
"History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats."
— B.C. Forbes
"Well begun is half done."
— Aristotle
"No is a word on your path to Yes. Don't give up too soon. Not even if well-meaning parents, relatives, friends, and colleagues tell you to get a real job. Your dreams are your real job"
— Joyce Spizer
Author
"Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top."
— Paul Coffey
NHL star
"The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand."
— Vince Lombardi
"Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek."
— Mario Andretti
"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination."
— Tommy Lasorda
"Even the woodpecker owes his success to the fact that he uses his head and keeps pecking away until he finishes the job he starts."
— Coleman Cox
"Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one-yard line. They give up a the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown."
"Adhere to your purpose and you will soon feel as well as you ever did. On the contrary, if you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and will regret it all your life."
— Abraham Lincoln
June 28, 1862 in letter to Quintin Campbell
— H. Ross Perot
"It's always too soon to quit!"
— Norman Vincent Peale
"No great thing is created suddenly."
— Epictetus
"All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you."
— Walt Disney
"We will either find a way or make one."
— Hannibal, Carthaginian General
"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of determination."
— Vince Lombardi
"It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired."
— Robert Strauss
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed, is more important than any other one thing."
— Abraham Lincoln
November 5, 1855 in letter to Isham Reavis
"A philosopher once said, “He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” I would add, “He who has a why to lead can bear almost any trial."
— Leslie Bains, CEO Modern Asset Management
"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."
— Elbert Hubbard
"He who does not believe in miracles is not a realist."
— Anton Rupert, Rembrandt Group
"Thankfully, perseverance is a good substitute for talent"
— Steve Martin
— Steve Martin