Quotes About Persistence

I was relentless, even in the face of total lack of encouragement, because much more often than you'd think, sheer persistence is the difference between success and failure.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Nothing good comes in life or athletics unless a lot of hard work has preceded the effort. Only temporary success is achieved by taking short cuts.

There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success.

Open your eyes and look around carefully at the moments when you think you have failed, because the lighthouse of the success mysteriously appears amongst the fog at those very moments!

I have got two reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.

Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.

Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean.

Doubts in your mind are a much greater roadblock to success than obstacles on the journey.

Success is not a destination, but the road that you're own.

Success is actually a short race-a sprint fueled by discipline just long enough for habit to kick in and take over.

When you are not practicing, remember, someone somewhere is practicing, and when you meet him he will win.

Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on schedule. The key is to keep working the engines.

A minute of success pays for years of failure.

It's so funny looking back, but my so-called overnight success actually took 15 years. I remember when I didn't have any money, and my only car was mom's Hyundai.

It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure.

I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it

Success isn't overnight. It's when everyday you get a little better than the day before. It all adds up.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Success never resides in the world of weak wishes, but in the palace of purposeful plans and prayerful persistence.

Success is not going to just come to you. You must go out and get it.