Perseverance
779 quotes: 22 by Keith Craft, 757 from other voices.
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- The practice of perseverance is the discipline of the noblest virtues. To run well, we must run to the end. It is not the fighting but the conquering that gives a hero his title to renown.
- 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.
- The real competition is against the little voice inside you that wants to quit
- The real difference between men is energy. A strong will, a settled purpose, an invincible determination, can accomplish almost anything; and in this lies the distinction between great men and little men.
- The real work begins when the excitement to work ends.
- The reward for all good work is not rest, but more work, and harder work.
- The reward of one duty done is the power to fulfill another.
- The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
- The saddest failures in life are those that come from the not putting forth of power and will to succeed.
- The secret for progress in anything is to come back tomorrow.
- The secret of success chiefly lies in the determination to succeed and the resolve that every repulse, every knock-down he receives in the battle, will only nerve him the more.
- The secret to genius is not genetics but daily practice married with relentless perseverance.
- The secret to winning is learning how to lose. That is, learning to bounce back from failure and disappointment — undeterred — and continuing to steadily march toward your potential. Your response to failure determines your capacity for success.
- The soft droppes of rain perce the hard marble; many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.John LylySourced
- The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike.
- The surest method against scandal is to live it down by perseverance in well-doing.
- The sweetest pleasure arises from difficulties overcome.
- The virtue lies in the struggle, not in the prize.
- The way Jesus shows you is not easy. Rather, it is like a path winding up a mountain. Do not lose heart! The steeper the road, the faster it rises towards ever wider horizons.
- The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
- There ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got raw deals. You've got to say, 'I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it.'
- There are no gains without pains.
- There are no shortcuts. There are no magic potions. There are no work-arounds.
- There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
- There are two ways of attaining an important end--force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.
- There can be heroism in the moment, but courage is always in the day-to-day.
- There can be no failure for the man who “still fights on.”
- There is a price, of patience or labor, that must be paid for the most worthy things.
- There is a strength of quiet endurance as significant of courage as the most daring feats of prowess.
- There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t.
- There is no armor like perseverance.Sogyal RinpocheCommonly attributed
- There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, Can circumvent or hinder or control The firm resolve of a determined soul. Gifts count for nothing; will alone is great; All things give way before it, soon or late.
- There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
- There is no failure except in no longer trying.
- There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.
- There is no right without a parallel duty, no liberty without the supremacy of the law, no high destiny without earnest perseverance, no greatness without self-denial.
- There is no short cut. For anything worth having one must pay the price, and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice — no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
- There is no such thing as failure to one who makes it a lesson in wisdom.
- There is no ultimate fate but the indomitable will.
- There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions, as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one’s life.