Quotes About Persistence

Oh, Hammond-intolerable, but he will see the job through.

Fire wouldn't burn he; blade wouldn't cut her, no matter how long we hacked away.

Feiglings!" Eroica bellowed after them at the top of his lungs as they clawed and scattered his wing dragons.

It's like—it's gleaning in the woods. . . You have to pick your way through the thickets and the trees, and it's different every time.

Surely it's not too much to ask a little patience

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

Remember that it is not the lawyer who knows the most law, but the one who best prepares his case, who wins.

If you give up before your goal has been reached, you are a quitter. A QUITTER NEVER WINS AND A WINNER NEVER QUITS. Lift this sentence out, write it on a piece of paper in letters an inch high, and place it where you will see it every night before you go to sleep, and every morning before you go to work

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Most so called FAILURES are only temporary defeats

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve regardless of how many times you may have failed in the past or how lofty your aims and hopes may be.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

There is no substitute for persistence. The person who makes persistence his watch-word, discovers that "Old Man Failure" finally becomes tired, and makes his departure. Failure cannot cope with persistence.

The capacity to surmount failure without being discouraged is the chief asset of every person who attains outstanding success in any calling.

Desire backed by faith knows no such word as impossible.

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.

Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.

The majority of people are ready to throw their aims and purposes overboard, and give up at the first sign of opposition or misfortune. A few carry on DESPITE all opposition, until they attain their goal. These few are the Fords, Carnegies, Rockefellers, and Edisons. There may be no heroic connotation to the word persistence, but the quality is to the character of man what carbon is to steel.

The person who moves with definiteness recognizes the difference between temporary defeat and failure. When plans fail he substitutes others but he does not change his purpose. He perseveres.

He had nothing to start with, except the capacity to know what he wanted, and the determination to stand by that desire until he realized it.

no one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

Every great leader of the past, whose record I have examined, was beset by difficulties and met with temporary defeat before 'arriving

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.