Perseverance Quotes

Want of perseverance is the great fault of women in everything--morals, attention to health, friendship, and so on. It cannot be too often repeated that women never reach the end of anything through want of perseverance.

Who's willing to face the unknown- the difficulties, the disappointments, the surprises of the unfamiliar. If you're going to change, you have to face those things, and who's able? Who has the skillful means, the knowhow, the perseverance, the help, the fortitude to keep going?

The longing to behold this pre-established harmony [of phenomena and theoretical principles] is the source of the inexhaustible patience and perseverance with which Planck has devoted himself ... The state of mind which enables a man to do work of this kind is akin to that of the religious worshiper or the lover; the daily effort comes from no deliberate intention or program, but straight from the heart.

One is defeated only when one accepts defeat.

It would be naïve to think that peace and justice can be achieved easily. No set of rules or study of history will automatically resolve the problems ... However, with faith and perseverance, ... complex problems in the past have been resolved in our search for justice and peace.

The greatest results in life are usually attained by common sense and perseverance.

Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.

One of the hardest decisions you'll ever face in life is choosing whether to walk away or try harder.

The secret of our success is that we never, never give up.

Every setback means you're one step closer to seeing the dream come to pass.

If it takes a hundred years, it will be a pity, but I will not cease to work for it as long as I live.

Anyone will succeed in whatever field of endeavor in life by acquiring the same virtues and character that boxing world champions do - dedication, perseverance, courage, extreme self-discipline and prayers

Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances.

To believe in yourself and to follow your dreams, to have goals in life and a drive to succeed, and to surround yourself with the things and the people that make you happy. This is success!

You will make some mistakes but, if you learn from those mistakes, those mistakes will become wisdom and wisdom is essential to becoming wealthy.

Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.

There are two kinds of success. One is the rare kind that comes to the person who has the power to do what no one else has the power to do. That is genius. But the average person who wins what we call success is not a genius. That person is a man or woman who has merely the ordinary qualities that they share with their fellows, but has developed those ordinary qualities to a more than ordinary degree.

No one will hit you harder than life itself. It doesn't matter how hard you hit back. It's about how much you can take, and keep fighting, how much you can suffer and keep moving forward. That's how you win.

Focused will is incredible. If you have a dream and you don’t give up no matter what obstacles come up, then life’s problems will fall away and you will get what you want. It happens. It works.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

And there are people that will stand in your corner and convince you to stand up for another round no matter what.

Two little mice fell in a bucket of cream. The first mouse quickly gave up and drowned. The second mouse, wouldn't quit. He struggled so hard that eventually he churned that cream into butter and crawled out. Gentlemen, as of this moment, I am that second mouse.

Well, in regards to surfing, I’ve learned that there is always another wave coming. Translated that means there is always tomorrow. No matter how badly you get caught inside, if you can just hang in there and keep paddling, the set is going to pass and there will be a lull afterwards. So don’t give up, just take your pounding, wait until the set passes, then make your move.

We are not a failure just because we fail at something. Nobody is a failure unless they quit trying!

Faith, sympathy - fiery faith and fiery sympathy! Life is nothing, death is nothing, hunger nothing, cold nothing. Glory unto the Lord - march on, the Lord is our General. Do not look back to see who falls - forward - onward! Thus and thus we shall go on, brethren. One falls, and another takes up the work

Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.

Crush your individuality first. Shake off the dreams of personal comfort. Then start to work. Inch by inch you shall have to proceed. It needs courage, perseverance and very strong determination. No difficulties and no hardships shall discourage you. No failure and betrayals shall dishearten you. No travails (!) imposed upon you shall snuff out the revolutionary will in you. Through the ordeal of sufferings and sacrifice you shall come out victorious. And these individual victories shall be the valuable assets of the revolution.

Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.

Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.

If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it.

What worries you, masters you.

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

All experiences of life seems to prove that the impediments thrown in the way of the human advancement may for the most part be overcome by steady good conduct, honest zeal, activity, perseverance and above all, by a determined resolution to surmount.

Perseverance is a positive, active characteristic. It is not idly, passively waiting and hoping for some good thing to happen.

All great achievements require time.

Give your dreams all you've got, and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.

The harder I work the more I live.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.

We are what we do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act,  but a habit.

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.

When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you could n't hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that 's just the place and time that the tide'll turn.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.