Quotes About Persistence

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

And whenever you encounter a problem, no matter how insurmountable it might seem, there is one simple response that should be ingrained in your behavior: Never give up.

You're on a positive road. You have some type of direction where you're going, so you have to just keep on going.

Desire is craving enough to sacrifice for

A jug fills drop by drop.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.

A positive attitude is important, but it is only part of the story. Understanding how to surmount pain, doubt, and failure is a vital component in winning the game of life.

You always have a second chance, as long as you believe you do and you try again, and stay positive and persistent and consistent.

Men's best successes come after their disappointments.

The trouble with most of us is that we stop trying in trying times.

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

A positive attitude and personal motivation allow you to remain excited about what you are doing - no matter how difficult the challenges may be day to day.

Doesn't matter how menial may be the job that you're doing today. If you have dreams, that will turn into something positive in the future.

Positive wish: 'The sun will come out tomorrow.' Negative reality: 'Yeah, and it will flash brand-new daylight on the same old mess unless something is done to clean it up.

I feel like half the battle is not giving up and staying positive. If you don't have anyone in your corner or anyone in your ear, being positive helps you believe that you can get through it.

Be positive. Keep grinding. Stay positive.

Failure is impossible.

To succeed, you have to do something and be very bad at it for a while. You have to look bad before you can look really good.

I'm always doing things I can't do. That's how I get to do them.

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

Over the years I have discovered that ideas come through an intense desire for them; continually desiring, the mind becomes a watchtower on the lookout for incidents that may excite the imagination.

Greaness IS for ALL of US. We just need to keep Believing in ourselves and follow our dreams.

He started to sing as he tackled the thing. That couldn't be done, and he did it.

You don't drown by falling in water. You only drown if you stay there.