Perseverance
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- The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.
- The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is, that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.
- The difference between the difficult and the impossible is that the impossible takes a little longer time.
- The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination.
- The difference in winning & losing is most often, not quitting.
- The general of a large army may be defeated, but you cannot defeat the determined mind of a peasant.
- The glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time you fall.
- The great difference between those who succeed and those who fail does not consist in the amount of work done by each, but in the amount of intelligent work.
- The great successes of the world have been affairs of a second, a third, nay, a fiftieth trial.
- The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
- The greatest misfortune of all is not to be able to bear misfortune.
- The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
- The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
- The hard part is getting to that point, because the ticket to victory often comes down to bringing your very best when you feel your worst.
- The hard part of the plan isn’t making the plan, it’s sticking with the plan.
- The hardest thing is to get started, but the really hardest thing is to finish.
- The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.
- The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and to possess the aptitude and perseverance to attain it.
- The indomitable will, the inflexible purpose, will find a way or make one.
- The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.
- The key to life when it gets tough is to keep moving. Just keep moving.
- The lesson taught at this point by human experience is simply this, that the man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
- The level path is easy, but it will not bring you to the mountaintop.
- The little done vanishes from the sight of him who looks forward to what is still to do.
- The major difference between the big shot and the little shot is the big shot is just a little shot who kept on shooting.
- The man of business knows that only by years of patient, unremitting attention to affairs can he earn his reward, which is the result, not of chance, but of well-devised means for the attainment of ends.
- The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.
- The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
- The mind converts and changes every hindrance to its activity into an aid; and so that which is a hindrance is made a furtherance to an act; and that which is an obstacle on the road helps us on this road.
- The most useful form of patience is persistence. Patience implies waiting for things to improve on their own. Persistence implies keeping your head down and continuing to work when things take longer than you expect.
- The obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.
- The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
- The only difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is extraordinary determination.
- The only guarantee for failure is to stop trying.John C. MaxwellCommonly attributed
- The only lost cause is one we give up on before we enter the struggle.
- The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.
- The only thing that stands between you and grand success in living are these two things: getting started and never quitting!
- The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
- The passion for stretching yourself and sticking to it, even (or especially) when it’s not going well, is the hallmark of the growth mindset.
- The people who stick with things for years and never stop almost always win the race.