Quotes About Persistence

Courage permits the caliber of performance to continue at its peak, until the finish line is crossed.

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage "coaches" ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

One of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

The measure of achievement is not winning awards. It's doing something that you appreciate, something you believe is worthwhile. I think of my strawberry souffle. I did that at least twenty-eight times before I finally conquered it.

I am not the smartest or most talented person in the world, but I succeeded because I keep going, and going, and going.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

It never pays to deal with the flyweights of the world. They take far too much pleasure in thwarting you at every turn.

I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside reinforcement isn't all that important to me.

Success generally depends upon knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Once I decide to do something, I can't have people telling me I can't. If there's a roadblock, you jump over it, walk around it, crawl under it.

Call the roll in your memory of conspicuously successful business giants and ... you will be struck by the fact that almost every one of them encountered inordinate difficulties sufficient to crush all but the gamest of spirits. Edison went hungry many times before he became famous.

If your efforts are sometimes greeted with indifference, don't lose heart. The sun puts on a wonderful show at daybreak, yet most of the people in the audience go on sleeping.

Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.

They who are the most persistent, and work in the true spirit, will invariably be the most successful.

The only way to the top is by persistent, intelligent, hard work.

I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up. Most people in this business gave up and went on to other things. If you simply didn't give up, you would outlast the people who came in on the bus with you.

I'm hardnosed about luck. I think it sucks. Yeah, if you spend seven years looking for a job as a copywriter, and then one day somebody gives you a job, you can say, "Gee, I was lucky I happened to go up there today." But dammit, I was going to go up there sooner or later in the next seventy years. ... If you're persistent in trying and doing and working, you almost make your own fortune.

It's the plugging away that will win you the day So don't be a piker, old pard! Just draw on your grit, it's so easy to quit- It's the keeping your chin up that's hard.

No one succeeds without effort.... Those who succeed owe their success to their perseverance.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Entrepreneurs average 3.8 failures before final success. What sets the successful ones apart is their amazing persistence. There are a lot of people out there with good and marketable ideas, but pure entrepreneurial types almost never accept defeat.

Plodding wins the race.

The difficulties and struggles of today are but the price we must pay for the accomplishments and victories of tomorrow.

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.