Quotes About Persistence

Whatever we succeed in doing is a transformation of something we have failed to do. Thus, when we fail, it is only because we have given up.

The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any particular objective long enough to obtain their maximum results.

Determination is frequently found in failure, but it is never found in defeat.

Remove failure as an option.

Failure is a disappointment, but not defeat.

No man or woman is uniformly successful... we must all expect a rather high percentage of failure in the things we attempt.

Learn how to fail intelligently.

Succes is really nothing more than the record of failure. To be successful means you must be willing to fail more than anyone else.

Failure isn't failing at the project at hand. Failure is giving up on yourself.

Nothing succeeds like - failure.

Failure makes excuses. Success just keeps swinging the bat.

Failure can either be a stepping stone to success or a stumbling to defeat.

I wouldn't have been what you'd call a champion if I had accepted failure when it first came, if I had looked at it and said, 'Well, that's it.'

Failure is just a few seconds away from success.

Failure is not a verdict; making mistakes is the price of the ticket.

You can't succeed unless you've got failure, especially creatively.

So we gave up. I'd finally had enough of chasing after a ghost who did not want to be seen. We'd failed, maybe, but some mysteries aren't meant to be solved.

The only true failure is failure to try.

The first step is crucial - keep it tiny. Do not be ambitious yet. That leads to failure. Consistency is what you're shooting for here so make the hurdle as low as possible.

By the end of the first decade of writing, I considered myself a confirmed failure in the eyes of the world.

To lose is not always failure.

Failure is not fatal. Only failure to get back up is.

The path to truly new, never-been-done-before things always has failure along the way.

Failure to me became not trying versus not succeeding