Perseverance
779 quotes: 22 by Keith Craft, 757 from other voices.
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- Knocking steadily at the door of opportunity will surely open it to success.
- Know why you’re in the fight to stay in the fight.
- Learn to reset your goals when you realize you won’t achieve your original ones. Don’t just quit.
- Learn what it means to you at the beginning of your career to conquer discouragement, to plod ever on with confidence that it is only a question of time and that you must in the end succeed.
- Learning is not compulsory; it's voluntary. Improvement is not compulsory; it's voluntary. But to survive, we must learn.W. Edwards DemingSourced
- Let no man think lightly of good, saying in his heart, It will not come nigh unto me. Even by the falling of water-drops a water-pot is filled; the wise man becomes full of good, even if he gather it little by little.
- Let your strongest muscle be the will.
- Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
- Life is a campaign, not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.
- Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.
- Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.
- Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.
- Life leaves its bootprints all over us — we just have to keep getting back up.
- Life may take everything out of my days, but the real things remain. You may destroy my castles, but I have the timbers to build ten thousand more.
- Life must be met in a fighting spirit.
- To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
- Long-term consistency trumps short-term intensity.
- Losers quit when they fail. Winners fail until they succeed.
- Losing doesn’t make me want to quit. It makes me want to fight that much harder.
- Love will be impatient of sin, but patient with the sinner.
- Make that aim clear and back it up with persistence which does not recognize the word "impossible."
- Many a man acquires a fortune by doing his business thoroughly, while his neighbour remains poor for life, because he only half does it. Ambition, energy, industry, perseverance, are indispensable requisites for success in business.
- Many a man has failed because he had his wishbone where his backbone should have been.
- Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Many strokes, though with a little axe, Hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.William ShakespeareSourced
- Maturity is perseverance – the ability to sweat out a project or a situation, in spite of heavy opposition and discouraging setbacks, and stick with it until it is finished.
- May we understand that that which is worth having costs time, costs labor, and sometimes blood.
- Meanwhile, hold fast to this thought, and grip it close: yield not to adversity; trust not to prosperity; keep before your eyes the full scope of Fortune’s power, as if she would surely do whatever is in her power to do.
- Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.
- Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.William CobbettCommonly attributed
- Mental toughness is a lifestyle.
- Moral courage: the courage of one's convictions; the courage to see a thing through.
- Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
- Most men fail, not through lack of education or agreeable personal qualities, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will.
- 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.
- Most people don’t have a talent problem. They have a consistency problem.
- Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.
- Mount Everest, I will come again and conquer you, because as a mountain you can't grow, but as a human I can.
- My son, observe the postage stamp! Its usefulness depends upon its ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.
- My strength lies solely in my tenacity.Louis PasteurCommonly attributed