Quotes About Persistence

Obstacles cannot crush me, every obstacle yields to stern resolve.

And let us not be weary in well doing; for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

When I look at the kids training today ... I can tell which ones are going to do well. It's not necessarily the ones who have the most natural talent or who fall the least. Sometimes it's the kids who fall the most, and keep pulling themselves up and trying again.

Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

If I don't get off the mat, I'll lose the fight.

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

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Think of a fine painter attempting to capture an inner vision, beginning with one corner of the canvas, painting what he thinks should be there, not quite pulling it off, covering it over with white paint, and trying again, each time finding out what his painting isn't, until he finally finds out what it is. And when you finally do find out what one corner of your vision is, you're off and running.

Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over.

Education is hanging around until you've caught on.

You go back to the gym and you just do it again and again until you get it right.

How many years you have to keep on doing, until you know what to do and how to do!

When you're a professional, you come back no matter what happened the day before.

Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires ... courage.

People with good intentions never give up!

If I see a door comin' my way, I'm knockin' it down. And if I can't knock down the door, I'm sliding through the window.

I try. I am trying. I was trying. I will try. I shall in the meantime try. I sometimes have tried. I shall still by that time be trying.

Hard times ain't quit and we ain't quit.

I have often been adrift, but I have always stayed afloat.

God helps those who persevere.

Gnaw your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, gnaw it still.

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.