Perseverance
779 quotes: 22 by Keith Craft, 757 from other voices.
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- A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed—I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.
- A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation, and encourages perseverance. In so doing, it transforms great talent into exceptional accomplishment.
- A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.
- A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.
- A Quitter never wins – and – a Winner never quits.
- A river never beats its head against obstacles. It always goes around, and it always gets to the sea.
- A vigorous purpose makes much out of little, breathes power into weak instruments, disarms difficulties, and even turns them into assistances. Every condition has means of progress, if we have spirit enough to use them.
- Achievement does not require extraordinary ability. Achievement comes from ordinary abilities applied with extraordinary persistence.
- Achievement requires more than a vision - it takes courage, resolve and tenacity. All you have got to do is plant that seed in your mind, care for it, work steadily toward your goal, and it will become a reality
- Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.
- Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then criticism will gradually yield to him.
- Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable; however, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it, than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.
- All achieving characters have a sublime disregard of criticism.
- All beginnings are easy; it is the ulterior steps that are of most difficult ascent and most rarely taken.
- All change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.
- All good things can be achieved only with effort.
- All great achievers are given multiple reasons to believe they are failures. But in spite of that they persevere.
- All human power is a compound of time and patience.
- All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
- All shadows of insecurity dissolve in the warm glow of persistence.
- All that I have accomplished, or expect or hope to accomplish, has been and will be by that plodding, patient, persevering process of accretion which builds the antheap, particle by particle, thought by thought, fact by fact.
- All things are difficult before they are easy.
- Allow yourselves to dream and then chase after those dreams. That will always require effort and sacrifice, but be persistent!
- Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
- Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
- Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.
- Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
- Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.
- Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing.
- Anyone can carry his burden, however heavy, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, until the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.
- Anyone can do it once. The best do it consistently.
- Anyone can start something. No one quits right before the prize. The middle sets people apart.
- Arise, awake, and stop not until the goal is achieved.
- Arise, awake, stop not till the goal is reached.
- As long as I breathe, I hope.
- As long as you are breathing, everything is possible. Never quit trying.
- As much as talent counts, effort counts twice.
- As nothing truly valuable can be attained without industry, so there can be no persevering industry without a deep sense of the value of time.
- Ask not that the journey be easy; ask instead that it be worth it.
- At the end of the day, the goal of building something is to build something, not to not make mistakes.