Perseverance
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- Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
- Persistence is the magic bullet.Mark BattersonCommonly attributed
- Persistence isn't using the same tactics over and over. Persistence is having the same goal over and over.
- Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.
- Pixar has been a marathon, not a sprint. There are times when you run a marathon and you wonder, why am I doing this? But you take a drink of water, and around the next bend, you get your wind back, remember the finish line, and keep going.
- Prison itself is a tremendous education in the need for patience and perseverance.
- Pros are just amateurs who know how to gracefully recover from their mistakes.
- Pure grit is that element of character which enables a man to clutch his aim with an iron grip, and keep the needle of his purpose pointing to the star of his hope.
- Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
- Real merit is not in the success, but in the endeavour.
- Regret doesn’t come from failure. It comes from giving up.
- Relax. One bad chapter does not mean it’s the end of the book.
- Remember, a statue has never been set up in honour of a critic!
- Remember, don’t try to build the greatest wall that’s ever been built. Focus on laying a single, expertly-placed brick. Then keep doing that, every day.
- Remember that the most difficult tasks are consummated, not by a single explosive burst of energy or effort, but by the constant daily application of the best you have within you.
- Remember, the greater the struggle, the greater the reward.Joel OsteenCommonly attributed
- Remember the growth of a believer is not like a mushroom, but like an oak, which increases slowly indeed, but surely.
- Remember, the main business of life is not to do, but to become; an action itself has its finest and most enduring fruit in character.
- Remember why you started, remember where you're headed, think of how great it will be to get there, and keep going.
- Resilience is very different than being numb. Resilience means you experience, you feel, you fail, you hurt. You fall. But, you keep going.
- Resolution will sometimes relax, and diligence will sometimes be interrupted; but let no accidental surprise or deviation, whether short or long, dispose you to despondency.
- Resolved to live with all my might while I do live, and as I shall wish I had done ten thousand ages hence.
- Restlessness is discontent — and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man — and I will show you a failure.Thomas EdisonSourced
- Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
- Run every day. If you can't run, walk fast. If you can't walk fast, walk as fast as you can. If you can't walk, limp. If you can't limp, crawl. If you can't crawl, roll. If you can't roll, imagine you are running.Michael FitzgeraldSourced
- Seeming failure has many a time proved only a stepping-stone to real success.
- Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.
- Set your target and keep trying until you reach it.
- Short-term results come from intensity. Long-term results come from consistency.
- Should we fall a thousand times in a day, a thousand times we must rise again, always animated with unbounded confidence in the infinite goodness of God.
- Show them that the difference between defeat and victory in many cases is merely that one team has more will power, more determination, and that the margin of difference is, in many cases, just a matter of inches.
- Showing up is the first step. Every. Single. Day.
- Slow but steady wins the race.
- So remember this principle when something threatens to cause you pain: the thing itself was no misfortune at all; to endure it and prevail is great good fortune.
- So with the man who has daily inured himself to habits of concentrated attention, energetic volition, and self-denial in unnecessary things. He will stand like a tower when everything rocks around him, and when his softer fellow-mortals are winnowed like chaff in the blast.
- Social media says: do everything, everywhere, all at once. Reality says: focus on doing one or two things extremely well, in one place, consistently, over a long period of time.
- Some falls are means the happier to rise.
- Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.
- Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to.
- Sometimes a winner is just a dreamer who never gave up.