Quotes About Persistence

Push on, friend. You're just one exciting step from the banquet hall of life.

Success is dependent upon the glands--sweat glands.

There's often no way you can look into the game of life and determine whether or not you'll get that big break tomorrow or whether it will take another week, month, year or even longer. But it will come

You don't have to be great at something to start, but you have to start to be great at something.

Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there.

Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking the tartar sauce with you.

Repetition is the mother of learning, the father of action, which makes it the architect of accomplishment.

Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly--until you can learn to do it well.

Optimists are those who go after Moby dick in a row boat with a bucket of tarter sauce.

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

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

People do not wander around and then find themselves at the top of Mount Everest.

Most people who fail in their dream fail not from lack of ability but from lack of commitment.

It's not where you start or even what happens to you along the way that's important. What is important is that you persevere and never give up on yourself.

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing – that's why we recommend it daily.

People often say motivation doesn't last. Neither does bathing—that's why we recommend it daily.

There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs

I believe Success is achieved by ordinary people with Extraordinary Determination.

Do it, and then you will feel motivated to do it.

If you have the character to hang in there when its tough, you will develop or acquire every other characteristic necessary to WIN in the game of life.

Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough.

People who accomplish great things work toward their objectives every day.

When you do the things you need to do when you need to do them, the day will come when you can do the things you want to do when you want to do them.

If you are going to be successful, you must develop persistence. How do you do that? It is not easily condensed in one simple statement, but one thing you can be sure of is that your must define your purpose.