Perseverance Quotes - Page 26

to maintain success, stamina is more important than talent. You have to learn to be a marathon runner.

There are a lot of tricks you have to keep playing on yourself to keep at it because every time you hit a problem you want to walk away.

It's time for you to move, realizing that the thing you are seeking is also seeking you.

He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.

Perseverance may be just as important as speed in the battle for the future.

The road to perseverance lies by doubt.

Man is not made for defeat.

We never can tell how our lives may work to the account of the general good, and we are not wise enough to know if we have fulfilled our mission or not.

Perseverance is not a passive submission to circumstances-it is a strong and active response to the difficult events of life.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

Sometimes the only difference between those who attain and those who don't is perseverance.

When I feel like my body is exhausted, I focus on making my fifth Olympic team so I can push through it.

There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you, and there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself.

If one concentrates on one thing and does not get away from it ... he will possess strong, moving power.

Know full well that patience is the best means of succeeds.

I think what people love about the Steve Jobs story is not just the track record at Apple, but that comeback story, that he was thrown out of Apple, came back and built the company even greater. And that perseverance is so important in terms of entrepreneurship. And nobody is a better role model for that, for all entrepreneurs all over the world than Steve Jobs.

Say I have set my goal at 300 pounds, and I cannot do it. The very fact that I have been devotedly practising and practising gives me joy, and the tenacity or perseverance that I am showing is itself progress. Anything that we do devotedly and soulfully helps us make progress.

There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.

When you want to change things, you won't please everyone.

All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance.

Too much vigor in the beginning of an undertaking often intercepts and prevents the steadiness and perseverance always necessary in the conduct of a complicated scheme.

Success is measured simply by the amount of effort we put forth, in conquering our objectives.

Stubbornly persist, and you will find that the limits of your stubbornness go well beyond the stubbornness of your limits

It must not be thought that it is ever possible to reach the interior earth by any perseverance in mining: both because the exterior earth is too thick, in comparison with human strength; and especially because of the intermediate waters, which would gush forth with greater impetus, the deeper the place in which their veins were first opened; and which would drown all miners.

Worthy things happen to the worthy.