Perseverance
779 quotes: 22 by Keith Craft, 757 from other voices.
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- Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: You don't give up.
- Hope is a good thing, maybe even the best of things, and good things never die.
- Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.
- Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, of sickness, of captivity, would, without this comfort, be insupportable.
- Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.G. K. ChestertonSourced
- How long? Not long, because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.
- How long should you try? Until.
- How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success?
- How often in life we complete a task that was beyond the capability of the person we were when we started it.
- How you start is important, but it is how you finish that counts. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter.
- Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.
- I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.
- I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.
- I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong.
- I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.
- I consider rejection a lucky charm.
- I did get knocked down flat in front of the whole world, and I rose. I didn’t run away – I rose right where I’d been knocked down. And then that’s how you get to know yourself.
- I didn't fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps.
- I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.
- I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
- I don’t believe there are any free lunches. There is no easy ride to success. The journey is what it is and you have to accept that if you want to be a successful entrepreneur.
- I don't give up because I don't give up. I don't believe in it.Johnny CashCommonly attributed
- I don’t stop when I’m tired. I stop when I’m done.
- I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it,—but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
- I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'
- I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.
- I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
- I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying.Rahul DravidCommonly attributed
- I have failed many times, and that's why I am a success.
- I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
- I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
- I hold a doctrine, to which I owe not much, indeed, but all the little I ever had, namely, that with ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.
- I knew it, too, but my resolve was taken, the world was wide, and I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.
- I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it is an illusion to me . . . Failure always made me try harder next time.
- I never view mistakes as failures. They are simply opportunities to find out what doesn't work.
- I refuse to allow a disability to determine how I live my life. There is only one way to go in life and that is forward.
- I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.Christopher ReeveSourced
- I think everybody should study ants. They have an amazing four-part philosophy. Never give up, look ahead, stay positive and do all you can.
- I trained 4 years to run 9 seconds and people give up when they don’t see results in 2 months.
- I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.