Perseverance
779 quotes: 22 by Keith Craft, 757 from other voices.
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- At the root of resilience is the willingness to take responsibility for results.
- Be determined to get up, to reach the highest goal you have in view, and you will.
- Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
- Be like the promontory against which the waves continually break, but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.
- Be patient, however long it takes.
- Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.
- Be strong enough to stand up again, even after haters make you drop to your knees.
- Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.
- Before you dream about the view from the summit, ask yourself if you’re willing to keep your head down, focus on the path, and spend your life walking up the side of a very big hill. It takes years of walking to earn a minute at the top.
- Beginnings are often small and the progress slow, but the one who studies and strives, who never leaves off his efforts, is sure to be an overcomer.
- Being a “promising beginner” is fun, but being an actual expert is infinitely more gratifying.
- Being brave isnt supposed to be easy, but its the key to moving forward.
- Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
- Brick walls are there for a reason: they let us prove how badly we want things.
- But it ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done!
- But still try, for who knows what is possible...
- By perseverance the snail reached the ark.Charles H. SpurgeonSourced
- By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.
- Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
- Christian holiness does not being sinless, but rather it means struggling not to give in and always getting up after every fall.
- Competing is like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.
- Consistency finishes what intensity starts.
- Constancy is the complement of all the other human virtues.
- Constancy means, not he who begins, but he who perseveres.
- Constant dropping wears away stones; and by diligence and patience the mouse ate in two the cable; and little strokes fell great oaks.
- Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.
- Constant practice devoted to one subject often outdoes both intelligence and skill.
- Continued persistence overcomes almost all resistance.Mark Victor HansenCommonly attributed
- Continuous progress is necessary in this age of strenuous effort, and the man who rests on his oars soon finds the tide sweeping him backward. Keep pushing ahead.
- Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
- Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air. These qualities have ever been displayed in their mightiest perfection, as attendants in the retinue of strong passions.
- Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow.
- Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
- Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.
- Day follows the murkiest night; and when the time comes, the latest fruits also ripen.
- Decision and perseverance are the noblest qualities of man.
- Defeat is a destructive force only when it is accepted as failure!
- Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
- Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
- Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations.