Quotes About Persistence

You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.

The hardest part of any important task is getting started on it in the first place. Once you actually begin work on a valuable task, you seem to be naturally motivated to continue.

Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.

Your most vauluable asset can be your willingness to persist longer than anyone else.

Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along. NAPOLEON HILL

The success you are enjoying today is the result of the price you have paid in the past.

Discipline is what you must have to resist the lure of excuses

Life is like a combination lock; your job is to find the numbers, in the right orders, so you can have anything you want.

The price of success must be paid in full, in advance.

As Pat Riley, the basketball coach, said, Anytime you stop striving to get better, you're bound to get worse.

There is an old saying that by the yard it's hard; but inch by inch, anything's a cinch!

Throughout my career, I have discovered and rediscovered a simple truth.It is this: the ability to concentrate single-mindedly on your most important task, to do it well and to finish it completely, is the key to great success, achievement, respect, status and happiness in life.

The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.

It is impossible to succeed without failing.

The most important success principle of all was stated by Elbert Hubbard, one of the most prolific writers in American history, at the beginning of the twentieth century. He said, 'Self-discipline is the ability to do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.

Any goal can be achieved if you break it down into enough small parts.

Talent Is Overrated

the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.

There are, basically, three kinds of people: the unsuccessful, the temporarily successful, and those who become and remain successful. The difference is character.

The more you discipline yourself to persist on a major task, the more you like and respect yourself, and the higher is your self-esteem.

There are a thousand excuses for failure but never a good reason." —MARK TWAIN

Each act of self-discipline strengthens every other act of self-discipline. Every act of persistence strengthens every other act of persistence. When you discipline yourself to persist, over and over, you like and respect yourself more and more. You become stronger and more confident. Eventually, you become unstoppable.

Between you and every goal that you wish to achieve, there is a series of obstacles, and the bigger the goal, the bigger the obstacles. Your decision to be, have and do something out of the ordinary entails facing difficulties and challenges that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.

Self-discipline is the ability to do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.