Quotes About Persistence

If you started a business when Christ was born and lost $1 million a day, it would still take another 700 years before you lost $1 trillion.

Never be satisfied with less than your very best effort. If you strive for the top and miss, you'll still 'beat the pack.

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

All things are difficult before they are easy.

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

When you can't change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails

Ever Tried. Ever Failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

Being willing is not enough. We must do.

Arise! Awake! and stop not until the goal is reached.

If you are going down a road and don't like what's in front of you, and look behind you and don't like what you see, get off the road. Create a new path!

The great secret is a controlled imagination and a well-sustained attention, firmly and repeatedly focused on the object to be accomplished.

Keep positive and keep pushing on and things will turn good.

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.

Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, 'It can't be done.'

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

You can have anything you want, if you want it badly enough.

It doesn't matter if a million people tell you what you can't do, or if ten million tell you no. If you get one yes from God that's all you need.

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

I think everybody should study ants. They have an amazing four-part philosophy. Never give up, look ahead, stay positive and do all you can.