Quotes About Persistence

Not all who seem to fail have failed indeed. Not all who fail have therefore worked in vain. There is no failure for the good and brave.

Because a fellow has failed once or twice, or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure until he's dead or loses his courage - and that's the same thing.

He alone fails who gives up and lies down.

Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Failure is not in losing, but in no longer believing that winning is worthwhile.

He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

Men must try and try again.

In the past, few women have tried and even fewer have succeeded.

A mistake is not a failure, but evidence that someone tried to do something.

Man must strive, and in striving, he must err.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

Your success depends on your ability to dream and follow through on those dreams.

The only failure which lacks dignity is the failure to try.

It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.

Failure is the foundation of success, and the means by which it is achieved.

Failure ... is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterward carefully avoid.

Failure is that early morning hour of darkness which precedes the dawning of the day of success.

The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.

Most men fail, not through lack of education, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will.

Failure is usually the line of least persistence.

Failure is not sweet, but it need not be bitter.

Three failures denotes uncommon strength. A weakling had not enough grit to fail thrice.

In prayer one must hold fast and never let go, because the one who gives up loses all. If it seems that no one is listening to you, then cry out even louder. If you are driven out of one door, go back in by the other.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel towards our distant goal.