Quotes About Persistence

I try to write 1,000 words a day - about three pages. When I reach 1,000 words I feel good. Less than that: a failure. More than that: tired.

Success is generally due to holding on, and failure to letting go.

Failure is part of success.

If 50 percent of your career is not filled with failure, you're not really successful.

Failure is not an option. Failure is a prerequisite.

Failure is not falling down but staying down.

I'm never a failure, unless I quit trying, and neither are you.

Victory is not final. Defeat is not failure. It's all about courage.

Failure is not a crime. The crime is not trying.

Consider that it is not failing in this or that attempt to come to Christ, but a giving-over of your endeavors, that will be your ruin.

Achievers rarely, if ever, see a problem as permanent,while those who fail see even the smallest problems as permanent

Failure either breaks people or it makes them succeed.

No man leaves where he is and seeks a distant place unless he is in some respect a failure.

Failure is not an option on this one.

Refreshing failures roll off the travel easel like ants from a picnic blanket.

The goodness you do might fail; but keep doing it, because the real failure is never doing goodness!

No failure is final unless you ratify it.

Failure is but the longer road to triumph.

Failure isn't really an option because, as my grandmother used to say, "Nothing beats a failure but a try."

Because the results are unpredictable, no effort of mine is doomed to failure.

In every perceived failure or setback is the seed of success.

Failure to die is always appreciated.

Whatever may be true of the other modes of warfare, insatyagraha it has been held that the causes for failure are to be sought within.

A big part of my job is to remember failure, and reboot failure, when the timing is right.