Perseverance
779 quotes: 22 by Keith Craft, 757 from other voices.
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- In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain. Either you already reach a higher point today, or you exercise your strength in order to be able to climb higher tomorrow.
- In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
- In times of defeat, we never know how close we are to victory.
- Industry can do anything which Genius can do; and very many things which it cannot.
- It ain't over 'til it's over.
- It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
- It doesn’t matter how many times you have failed, you only have to be right once.
- It doesn't matter if you fall down, it's whether you get back up.Michael JordanCommonly attributed
- It is amazing how much we can endure when we are convinced there is a purpose to our struggle.
- It is enough if you work in the right direction.
- It is far easier to make a great rush than to plod steadily on through a long life.
- It is more difficult, and calls for higher energies of the soul, to live a martyr than to die one.
- It is no such heinous matter to fall afflicted, as, being down, to lie dejected.
- It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.
- It is not the leap at the start, but the steady going on, that gets there.John WanamakerSourced
- It is not thy duty to complete the work, but neither art thou free to desist from it
- It is only the long and patient road that leads to anywhere.
- It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
- It is only when it is bent that the bow shows its strength.
- It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.
- It is the temper of the highest hearts, like the palm-tree, to strive most upwards when it is most burdened.
- It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawns upon you.
- It’s always to soon to quit.Norman Vincent PealeCommonly attributed
- It’s easy to be mentally strong when things go well. But true mental strength becomes apparent in the midst of adversity.
- It’s easy to get stuck in your first plan. Don’t give up when that one fails (and it probably will). Take what you learned and change the plan, not your resolve to achieve the goal.
- It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.Babe RuthCommonly attributed
- It's not a sin to get knocked down; it's a sin to stay down
- It’s not always the people who start out the smartest who end up the smartest.
- It's not getting to the wall that counts; it's what you do after you hit it.
- It’s not how hard you hit. It’s how hard you get hit...and keep moving forward.
- It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.
- It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
- It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get back up.
- It's very hard in the beginning to understand that the whole idea is not to beat the other runners. Eventually you learn that the competition is against the little voice inside you that wants you to quit.
- I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
- Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.
- Just remember that even the most successful lives have chapters of failure.
- Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears.
- [K]eep it going! You never can do anything by spasmodic efforts. It's the eternal hammering that does the thing.
- Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it.