Quotes About Persistence

Man has always to be busy with his thoughts if anything is to be accomplished.

Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.

I intend to be the greatest golfer in the world, the finest film producer in Hollywood, the greatest pilot in the world, and the richest man in the world.

The man who succeeds must always in mind or imagination live, move, think, and act as if he had gained that success, or he never will gain it.

As for a limit to one's labors, I, for one, do not recognize any for a high-minded man, except that the labors themselves should lead to noble accomplishments.

The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.

One great cause of failure of young men in business is lack of concentration.

If a man loses anything and goes back and looks carefully for it, he will find it.

Men who can both be right and sit tight are uncommon.

I could not rest, Watson, I could not sit quiet in my chair, if I thought that such a man as Professor Moriarty were walking the streets of London unchallenged.

We did 'Erin Brockovich,' we did 'Man on the Moon,' we did 'Living Out Loud,' but now I'm going to keep going.

Wine is a bride who brings a great dowry to the man who woos her persistently and gracefully.

We must read our Bibles like men digging for hidden treasure.

The man who persists in knocking will succeed in entering.

Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather. He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Some often repent, yet never reform; they resemble a man traveling in a dangerous path, who frequently starts and stops, but never turns back.

It is the man who carefully advances step by step...who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go - if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.

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

Champions come and go, but to be legendary you got to have heart, more heart than the next man, more than anyone in the world.

A man sometimes devotes his life to a desire which he is not sure will ever be fulfilled. Those who laugh at this folly are, after all, no more than mere spectators of life.

Great is the man who can overcome the world, but greater still is the man who can overcome himself, for he will have the world spinning on the palm of his hand.

Cowards shrink from toil and peril, Vulgar souls attempt and fail; Men of mettle, nothing daunted, Persevere till they prevail.