Quotes About Persistence

there is one quality which one must possess to

Where failure is experienced, it is the individual, not the method, which has failed. If you try and fail, make another effort, and still another, until you succeed.

Discipline comes through self-control. This means that one must control all negative qualities. Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself. Self-mastery is the hardest job you will ever tackle. If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

Napoleon Hill

There is no FAILURE. That which looks to be failure is usually nothing but temporary defeat. Make sure that you do not accept it as PERMANENT!

Persistence is a state of mind, therefore it can be cultivated. Like all states of mind, persistence is based upon definite causes

We see men who have accumulated great fortunes, but we often recognize only their triumph, overlooking the temporary defeats which they had to surmount before arriving.

and cut all sources of retreat. Only by so doing can one

Brace up. Stand erect. Strengthen your backbone and, with it, your jaw bone. Say "I will" instead of "I wish." The world bestows her prizes on men with backbone and the blanks on those who use their wishbone.

Antes de que el éxito llegue a la vida de cualquier hombre, éste debe sufrir varias derrotas temporales y, tal vez, algún fracaso. Cuando la derrota se apodera de un hombre, lo más fácil y más lógico de hacer es renunciar. Eso es exactamente lo que hacen la mayoría de los hombres.

A quitter never wins—and a winner never quits. Lift

Every one of them was a failure, but none of them was defeated.

The word no, to the master salesperson, is nothing more than a signal to begin the sales presentation in earnest.

Many a man stops work with the clock. He leaves his day's work with Ragged Edges. He is the man who starts his days with Ragged Edges, and finally rounds out an incomplete life. Finish up as you Go.

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

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There is a satisfaction and a feeling of latent Strength in the breast of a man who Starts a thing — and Finishes it. You will find this true if you do it. The most important task is always the task at hand. Complete it. Make it stand square and clean when you leave it. Look it over. Be sure no Ragged Edges remain.

Five years passed before the chance he had been seeking made its appearance. During all those years not one ray of hope, not one promise of attainment of his DESIRE had been held out to him. To everyone, except himself, he appeared only another cog in the Edison business wheel, but in his own mind, HE WAS THE PARTNER OF EDISON EVERY MINUTE OF THE TIME, from the very day that he first went to work there.

A burning desire has devious ways of transmuting itself into its physical equivalent.

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire, and begin at once, whether you're ready or not, to put it into action.

The modus operandi by which this astounding result was achieved is not hard to describe. It consisted of three very definite facts; first, I MIXED FAITH with the DESIRE for normal hearing, which I passed on to my son. Second, I communicated my desire to him in every conceivable way available, through persistent, continuous effort, over a period of years. Third, HE BELIEVED ME!

Le discutí un penique a la Vida, Y la vida no me dio más, Por más que le implorara de noche Cuando contaba mis escasos bienes. La Vida es un amo justo, y te da lo que le pides, Pero cuando has fijado el precio, Debes soportar la faena Trabajé por un salario de jornalero, Sólo para descubrir perplejo, Que cualquier salario que le hubiera pedido a la Vida, Esta me lo hubiese pagado de buen grado.

We know, now, that any idea, aim or purpose that is fixed in the mind and held there with a will to achieve or attain its physical or material equivalent, puts into motion powers that cannot be conquered.

Through some strange and powerful principle of "mental chemistry" which she has never divulged, Nature wraps up in the impulse of strong desire "that something" which recognizes no such word as impossible, and accepts no such reality as failure. THERE