Quotes About Persistence

For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again...

Any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day.

Any problem can be solved with patience, wisdom and earnest effort.

Nothing ever comes to me, that is worth having, except as the result of hard work.

Every person who has grown to any degree of usefulness, every person who has grown to distinction, almost without exception has been a person who has risen by overcoming obstacles, by removing difficulties, by resolving that when he met discouragements he would not give up. Make up your minds that you are going to overcome every discouragement, and that you are not going to let any discouragement overcome you. Those

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work

the most miserable are those who do the

Do not be satisfied with second-hand or third-hand things in life. Do not be satisfied until you have put yourselves into that atmosphere where you can seize and hold on to the very highest and most beautiful things that can be got out of life.

Have you ever heard of the law of large numbers? If you carry on betting large sums day after day, then sooner or later you are bound to win everything back." As far

Never give up doing what you like :)

We must always strive to achieve perfection, even when we know perfection is not entirely achievable.

The secret of my success is that I always managed to live to fly another day.

Few minds wear out; more rust out.

Some dangers are to be courted--courted and braved as a coy mistress is to be wooed, with all the more vigor as the day makes against us.

A failure usually establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

A strong will deals with the hard facts of life as a sculptor with his marbles, making them facile and yielding to his purposes, and conquering their stubbornness by a greater stubbornness in himself.

So it's been a slow process and it's taken some patience. That's why patients are called patients I think - patience is required.

Things we cannot solve, we must survive.

Grasp the simplicity and power of no excuses and you have guaranteed success.

Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly.

Every successive failure leads us one step closer to success. Thank God for our failures, those painful walls we hit that define the seemingly invisible boundaries of our lives, ever redirecting us, like guiding lights, down the winning paths to all our victories.

On Success & Failure: If you haven't failed, you haven't tried hard enough. Success in obtaining anything worth any value requires a long chain of failures. Otherwise everyone would have it.

Friends suggested that it sounded a bit sinister. But something about it must have captivated Bezos: he registered the URL in September 1994, and he kept it. Type Relentless.com into the Web today and it takes you to Amazon.

Wow, you guys are like cockroaches," Graham finally said. "You just won't die."16