Perseverance
779 quotes: 22 by Keith Craft, 757 from other voices.
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- Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way.
- We all deal with setbacks but in the long run, the quality of our lives often depends on the quality of our habits.
- We are made to persist. That’s how we find out who we are.
- We are not a failure just because we fail at something. Nobody is a failure unless they quit trying!
- We can always win through if we faint not.
- We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.
- We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.John F. KennedySourced
- The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back.
- We May Encounter Many Defeats But We Must Not Be Defeated.
- We may get knocked down on the outside, but the key to living in victory is to learn how to get up on the inside.
- We should never abandon, on account of the difficulties we encounter, an enterprise undertaken with due reflection.
- What can resist an unshakeable purpose? What can stand against it or turn it aside? Inert matter yields to a living force, and circumstance succumbs to the power of purpose.
- What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- What genius beholds with a flash of the eye, industry gains by a succession of blows. Men see the result, and care not for the process.
- What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, of uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.
- What I'm doing right now, I'm chasing perfection.
- What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.
- What is to give light must endure burning.
- What men want is not talent, it is purpose—in other words, not the power to achieve, but the will to labour.
- What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
- What people see as fearlessness is really persistence.
- What really matters is not whether we have problems, but how we go through them. We must keep going on to make it through whatever we are facing.
- What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway.
- Whatever spare moments I had at night, during lunch, or on the weekends I gave to my day dream. Until one day my day dream became my reality. Never give up on your day dream.
- When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away your ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.
- When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
- When faced with a mountain, I WILL NOT QUIT! I will keep on striving until I climb over, find a pass through, tunnel underneath, or simply stay and turn the mountain into a gold mine with God's help!
- When it comes to how we fare in the marathon of life, effort counts tremendously.
- When life takes the wind out of your sails, it is to test you at the oars.
- When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.
- When people are determined, they can overcome anything.
- When the final chapter of your life shall have been completed it will be found that your persistence, or lack of this sterling quality, played an important part in either your success or your failure.
- When the going gets tough, put one foot in front of the other and just keep going. Don’t give up.
- When the path becomes difficult, that's no reason to give up. In fact, it means you're making real progress.
- When the why gets stronger, the how gets easier.
- When times get tough, we don't give up. We get up.Barack ObamaCommonly attributed
- When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
- When you feel like giving up, remember why you held on for so long in the first place.
- When you’ve exhausted all possibilities, remember this: You haven’t!
- Whenever I hear, 'It can't be done,' I know I'm close to success.