Quotes About Persistence

It took two phone calls in 2009 to convince Charif Souki to turn around the business he was trying to build.

company after, he finally

I believe in myself so much that nothing is going to stop me.

My constant battle is putting aside time wasters, and I have to watch out for procrastination. Staying on the path of something you're trying to create has much to do with having confidence in yourself and in your capacity to realize the things you want out of life.

As long as you keep going, you'll keep getting better. And as you get better, you gain more confidence. That alone is success.

If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.

Do you know why the Indian rain dances always worked? Because the Indians would keep dancing until it rained.

If you keep on believing the dreams that you wish will come true.

No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep on believing, the dream that you wish will come true.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

We don't stop going to school when we graduate.

Education is a continual process, it's like a bicycle… If you don't pedal you don't go forward.

Every failure is a stepping stone to success. Every difficulty or disappointment is a trial of your faith. Every unpleasant incident or temptation is a test of your inner strength. Therefore nil desperandum. March forward hero!

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Success is my only option, failure's not.

Without failure there is no achievement.

No garden is without its weeds.

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no less of enthusiasm.

It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.

Work hard. I got tenure a year early. Junior faculty members used to say to me: 'Wow, what's your secret?' I said: 'It's pretty simple. Call me any Friday night in my office at 10 o'clock, and I'll tell you.'

"A thousand miles seems pretty far, but they've got planes and trains and cars. I'd walk to you if I had no other way."

"Friend, if there is no other way to see you but to walk towards you, I would no matter how far."

"If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything."

"We are all of us failures – at least, the best of us are."