Perseverance
779 quotes: 22 by Keith Craft, 757 from other voices.
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- There is nothing more certain than the defeat of the man who gives up.
- There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.
- There’s a reason race horses wear blinders. Focus only on what’s in front of you. You’ll get through it. Keep going.
- There’s no starting over, only getting up to begin again.
- There's nothing in this world that comes easy. There are a lot of people who aren't going to bother to win. We learn in football to get up and go once more.
- Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Think of ease, but work on.
- This I do know beyond any reasonable doubt. Regardless of what you are doing, if you pump long enough, hard enough and enthusiastically enough, sooner or later the effort will bring forth the reward.
- Thousands of people start out right, but they have not the power of will to continue, so that where ten thousand make a good beginning, less than a score finish the race.Christian D. LarsonSourced
- Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams.
- Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
- To be able to walk well, one must walk on, and to work with ease and effect, one must work on.
- To be able to work and wait, knowing that right results inevitably follow right efforts, is a true sign of greatness.
- To be like the rock that the waves keep crashing over. It stands unmoved and the raging of the sea falls still around it.
- To be overcome by adversity and threatening failure is to lose strength; to always remain in the same lofty, determined mood is to constantly grow in strength.
- To be successful at anything, the truth is you don’t have to be special. You just have to be what most people aren’t: consistent, determined and willing to work for it.
- To be successful at anything, you don’t have to be different. You simply have to be what most aren’t: consistent.
- To be worth anything, character must be capable of standing firm upon its feet in the world of daily work, temptation, and trial; and able to bear the wear and tear of actual life. Cloistered virtues do not count for much.
- To commence many things and not to finish them is no small fault; we must persevere in whatever we undertake with upright intention and according to God's will.
- To faint or loiter, when only the last efforts are required, is to steer the ship through tempests, and abandon it to the winds in sight of land; it is to break the ground and scatter the seed, and at last to neglect the harvest.
- To have failed once is not so much a pity as is to not try again.John WanamakerSourced
- To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals — this alone is worth the struggle.
- To make hits, take swings.
- To persevere in one's duty and to be silent is the best answer to calumny.
- To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity; the next is, to strive, and deserve to conquer.
- To succeed, work hard, never give up and above all, cherish a magnificent obsession.
- To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will. ‘I will drink the ocean,’ says the persevering soul; ‘at my will mountains will crumble up.’
- To think we are able is almost to be so; to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself. Thus earnest resolution has often seemed to have about it almost a savor of omnipotence.
- To try things oft, and never to give over, doth wonders.
- Top performers make mistakes just like everyone else. The difference is that they get back on track faster than most.
- Tough times never last, but tough people do!
- Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
- Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
- Try and keep on trying until that which seems difficult becomes possible and that which seems only possible becomes habit and a real part of you.
- Unless you’re willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won’t happen.
- Victories that are cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.
- Victory belongs to the most persevering.Napoleon BonaparteSourced
- Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.
- Visible outcomes are the result of years of effort applied in the same direction when no one is watching. It looks sexy, but it’s incredibly boring on a daily basis.
- Vision is a source of hope; it’s the source of courage; it’s the source of perseverance in the midst of difficulty.