Persistence Quotations | Page 2

The line between failure and success is so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it. How many a person has thrown up his or her hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience, would have achieved success. A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

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.

Franklin's illness...gave him strength and courage he had not had before. He had to think out the fundamentals of living and learn the greatest of all lessons - infinite patience and never ending persistence.

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition.

What this power is, I cannot say... All I know is that it exists.

It doesn't matter if you're good. If you're just good, you won't succeed. If you have patience and persistence and talent and that's it, you will not have a successful career as an actor. The elusive thing you need is luck.

There is no such thing as a quantum leap. There is only dogged persistence - and in the end you make it look like a quantum leap.

Persistence is the most traveled path to success.

To make a great dream come true, the first requirement is a great capacity to dream; the second is persistence.

Often, failure is success trying to be born in a bigger way, and persistence helps you to experience that greater result.