Quotes by Subject: Perseverance
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Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance. | * | ||
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. | * | ||
Genius is perseverence in disguise. | |||
Press on: nothing in the world can take the place of perseverance. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. | |||
Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourself a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. | |||
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. | |||
Victory belongs to the most persevering. | |||
It's not the size of the dog in a fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. | |||
Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful. | |||
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. | |||
He turns not back who is bound to a star. | * | ||
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most often makes for success. | |||
Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourself a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. | |||
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves. | |||
If you want a place in the sun, you have to put up with a few blisters. | |||
Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. | |||
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. | |||
Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour. | |||
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. | |||
How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees? | |||
I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot... and missed. I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is precisely why I succeed. | |||
Life's blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm. | |||
The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning. | |||
Being on a tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. | |||
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. | |||
Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. | * | ||
Patience: A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue. | |||
There are only two options regarding commitment; you're either in or you're out. There's no such thing as life in-between. | * | ||
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing. | |||
A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it. | * | ||
All great truths begin as blasphemies. | * | ||
When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on. | * | ||
It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give up because by that time I was too famous. | |||
Real heroes are men who fall and fail and are flawed, but win out in the end because they've stayed true to their ideals and beliefs and commitments. | |||
Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can. | |||
Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secret of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in the four c's. They are curiosity, confidence, courage and constancy, and the greatest of these is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestioningly. | |||
The secret to life is to fall seven times and get up eight times. | |||
My motto was to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was to keep swinging. | * | ||
Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. Yet, each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence and thus each obstacle is a comrade-in-arms forcing you to become better or quit. Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward. Turn away from them, avoid them, and you throw away your future. | |||
Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work. | |||
Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving. | |||
Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it. | |||
The distance is nothing; it's only the first step that is difficult. | |||
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. | * | ||
Nature always takes her time. Great oaks don't become great overnight. They also lose a lot of leaves, branches and bark in the process of becoming great. | |||
A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to its true principles. It is true that in the meantime we are suffering deeply in spirit, and incurring the horrors of a war and long oppressions of enormous public debt.... If the game runs sometimes against us at home we must have patience till luck turns, and then we shall have an opportunity of winning back the principles we have lost, for this is a game where principles are at stake. (1798 after passage of the Alien and Sedition Act) | * | ||
My strength lies solely in my tenacity. | |||
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. | * | ||
Maybe this world is another planet's hell. | |||
Have courage and a little willingness to venture and be defeated. | * | ||
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. | |||
You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round. | |||
Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim. | * | ||
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. | * | ||
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up. | |||
You rush a miracle man, you get rotten miracles. | |||
Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it. | |||
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