Perseverance Quotes - Page 29

[Asked if American women would ever win full suffrage:] Assuredly. I firmly believed at one time that I should live to see that day. I have never for one moment lost faith. It will come but I shall not see itit is inevitable.

When I played with Michael Jordan on the Olympic team, there was a huge gap between his ability and the ability of the other great players on that team. But what impressed me was that he was always the first one on the floor and the last one to leave.

Though perseverance does not come from our power, yet it comes within our power.

The secret to genius is not genetics but daily practice married with relentless perseverance.

There may be troubled waters along the many paths my life shall take, but only I as a man, may keep my vessel afloat, and guide myself straight.

As a means to success, determination has this advantage over talent - that it does not have to be recognized by others.

The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings

Let us encourage the generosity which is typical of the young and help them to work actively in building a better world. Youth do not solely need material things. Above all, they need to have those non-material values which are the spiritual heart of a people ... spirituality, generosity, solidarity, perseverance, fraternity, and joy.

I think you make the best with what you've got, you know? Sometimes you have very little. And you just always try to rise to higher ground, because you're going to suffer one way or the other, so you just hope that you have strength and perseverance and good friends and faith, some kind of faith, to endure and move on to greener pastures.

There is one thing more powerful than kings and all the soldiers in the world, and that is a visionary who has the courage to persevere.

It's not so hard to become the best painter in Canada... The rest just quits!

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

Money, influence, and position are nothing compared with brains, principles, energy and perseverances.

One training session won't change anything, but 10 will. Perseverance and straight up training.

There is something at work in my soul which I do not understand. I am practically industrious - painstaking, a workman to execute with perseverance and labour - but besides this there is a love for the marvellous, a belief in the marvellous, intertwined in all my projects, which hurries me out of the common pathways of men, even to the wild sea and unvisited regions I am about to explore.

The miracle or the power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance under the promptings of a brave, determined spirit.

In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.

It's perseverance that's the key. It's persevering for long enough to achieve your potential.

Fate gave to man the courage of endurance.

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Perseverance is what I tell my students. It's important that you keep your dream alive, because you're going to encounter a lot of obstacles, and no one is going to dream big for you. You have to have the fortitude and the resilience to stick with your own dreams. That can be hard.

Perseverance is king.

In the long vista of the years to roll,\\ Let me not see my country's honor fade;\\ Oh! let me see our land retain its soul!\\ Her pride in Freedom, and not Freedom's shade.

Prayer unaccompanied by perseverance leads to no result.

In every human endeavor, persistence is everything.