Perseverance Quotes
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!
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
In case of doubt, push on just a little further and then keep on pushing.
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 man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.
The most essential factor is persistence – the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.
He conquers who endures.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.
For all things difficult to acquire, the intelligent man works with perseverance.
Pay as little attention to discouragement as possible. Plough ahead as a steamer does, rough or smooth - rain or shine. To carry your cargo and make your port is the point.
The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.
Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.
By perseverance the snail reached the ark.
Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.
Man is not made for defeat.
A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
You are beaten to earth?
Well, well, what's that?
Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flat.
But to lie there – that's a disgrace.
When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
Never, never, never, never give up.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed: and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I fail and keep trying.
Consider the postage stamp; its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.