Perseverance Quotes - Page 21

All right mister, let me tell you that winning means you're willing to go longer, work harder, give more than anyone else.

Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall.

I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance... Unless you have a lot of passion about this, you're not going to survive. You're going to give it up. So you've got to have an idea, or a problem or a wrong that you want to right that you're passionate about otherwise you're not going to have the perseverance to stick it through.

Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.

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

Character is simply habit long continued.

The drop hollows out the stone not by strength, but by constant falling.

Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Prison itself is a tremendous education in the need for patience and perseverance. It is above all a test of one's commitment.

You aren't going to find anybody that's going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.

I've had a million setbacks along the way--from kiln fires burning down buildings to shipping disasters--that should have put me out of business, or at least left me lying in the fetal position on my bed for a few days. Luckily, though, I've never for one second thought that I had any other option than to just keep going.

Don't give up on your dreams, or your dreams will give up on you.

Try not to do too many things at once. Know what you want, the number one thing today and tomorrow. Persevere and get it done.

No great thing is created suddenly.

I often think that all the difficulties we encounter only give us the more strength if we keep hold of our work, and we must not now give up while in the prime of life. It is best to keep trying, and by and by the opportunity will come. If we have given up, then we shall not be ready for it when it does come.

In the end, it's all about perseverance.

Through persistence, you can be one of those happy, victorious people who not only chases dreams, but who catches them! The persistent man also perseveres long enough for his dreams to catch up with him!

Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams.

When the worms are scarce, what does a hen do? Does she stop scratching? She does not. She scratches all the harder. A lot of businessmen have been showing less sense than a hen since orders became scarce. They have laid off salesmen; they have stopped or reduced their advertising; they have simply resigned themselves to inaction and, of course, to pessimism. If a hen knows enough to scratch all the harder when the worms are scarce, surely businessmen ... ought to have gumption enough to scratch all the harder for business.

A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.

Persistence prevails, like a stream that is temporarily blocked by boulders and then collects force enough to overflow onward.

Every work has got to pass through hundreds of difficulties before succeeding. Those that persevere will see the light, sooner or later.

Perseverance is more than endurance." It is endurance combined with absolute assurance and certainty that what we are looking for is going to happen. Perseverance means more than just hanging on, which may only be exposing our fear of letting go and falling. Perseverance is our supreme effort of refusing to believe that our hero is going to be conquered.

No man is ever whipped until he quits - in his own mind.

You may get skinned knees and elbows, but it's worth it if you score a spectacular goal.