Perseverance Quotations | Page 2

I believe that I am very lucky to have close friends who are faithful. From my friends, I have learned the importance of perseverance.

Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.

I need a teacher quite as much as Helen. I know the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life, if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it.

'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause,-and of obstinacy in a bad one.

Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for.

It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.

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.

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

Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams.

Luck is a component that a lot of people in the arts sometimes fail to recognise: that you can have talent, perseverance, patience, but without luck you will not have a successful career.

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.

'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

When I was about five, I gave my heart to Jesus Christ, and since then it's just been a stronghold in my life. Really, through the shark attack and all the hard times that my family and I went through, it gave us unity and perseverance to push through all this crazy stuff that we never knew was going to happen.

Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration.

The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

The stubbornness I had as a child has been transmitted into perseverance. I can let go but I don't give up. I don't beat myself up about negative things.

I didn't have anybody, really, no foundation in life, so I had to make my own way. Always, from the start. I had to go out in the world and become strong, to discover my mission in life.

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.

To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.

Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.

The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

What it is saying is that someone who was a world champion and who takes care of himself with a 17-year rest and applies the proper training techniques and perseverance could be successful.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.

Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.

All of my Polynesian counterparts in the NFL with roots in American Samoa understand how the values embedded in our South Pacific culture - community, hard work, perseverance, respect - contribute directly to our success.

In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.

When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.

Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.

Success is about enjoying what you have and where you are, while pursuing achievable goals.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

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.

I always tell my kids if you lay down, people will step over you. But if you keep scrambling, if you keep going, someone will always, always give you a hand. Always. But you gotta keep dancing, you gotta keep your feet moving.

If you don't enjoy it, then putting in the long hours is going to take their toll.

I have never had to face anything that could overwhelm the native optimism and stubborn perseverance I was blessed with.

Don't give up on your dreams, or your dreams will give up on you.

He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.

I'll admit that it's not easy to get an agent, but becoming successful in anything requires perseverance.

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

I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

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.

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.

A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.

Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want.

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

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

Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

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

Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.

When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

Most of the time I liked school and got good grades. In junior high, though, I hit a stumbling block with math - I used to come home and cry because of how frustrated I was! But after a few good teachers and a lot of perseverance, I ended up loving math and even choosing it as a major when I got to college.

You aren't going to find anybody that's going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

If four things are followed - having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance - then anything can be achieved.

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.

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

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.

The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future.

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.

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.

Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.

What all these people had is a belief in themselves and a belief in their work and the perseverance to keep trying until they succeeded.

We feel an obligation to the people of the Gulf Coast, ... We're representing the fortitude and perseverance and strength of those people who are trying to piece their lives back together.

A little boy was asked how he learned to skate. 'By getting up every time I fell down,' he answered.

In fashion, you have to have perseverance. You have to do it again and again, but it's something that comes out of my heart, and I love it.

One of the first principles of perseverance is to know when to stop persevering.

I think that you appreciate that there are extraordinary men and women and extraordinary moments when history leaps forward on the backs of these individuals, that what can be imagined can be achieved, that you must dare to dream, but that there's no substitute for perseverance and hard work and teamwork because no one gets there alone; and that, while we commemorate the... the greatness of these events and the individuals who achieve them, we cannot forget the sacrifice of those who make these achievements and leaps possible.

It was entirely due to my mother [a devout Buddhist] and her kindness and perseverance that the family was saved from utter ruin. For a period of 17 years--from the age of 9 until I was 25 years old--my mother never spent a day free from domestic difficulties.

As long as a man stays alive he can't tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.

A hero is someone who over and over does the right thing even though no one is there to witness it.