Quotes About Persistence

Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.

The secret of success is to triple your rate of failure.

I quickly learned that if I kept at it and plowed right through the rejections I would eventually get somebody to buy my wares.

You get some success. You run into some walls...it's how tenacious you are, how irrepressible, how ultimately optimistic and tenacious you are about it that will determine your success.

I'd rather invest in an entrepreneur who has failed before than one who assumes success from day one.

It's all about dreams. If I had to attribute my success in life to any one thing it is this. I believed in my dreams, even when no one else did.

Persistence is a characteristic to which success invariably surrenders.

Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken.

Success, in every case, comes from the alchemy of your health, your mind, your positive energy, and the real world situations you persistently improve for yourself.

Success does not happen all at once. In life, there is no instant pudding.

We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!!

Remember there is plenty of room at the top-but not enough to sit down.

Success takes an investment in time, dedication, and sacrifice. This is true education. It is a process.

Every great man has become great, every successful man has succeeded, in proportion as he has confined his powers to one particular channel.

Success comes from repeated efforts day in and day out. You learn from your mistakes, make adjustments and continue pressing forward until you achieve the results you desire.

I think there has to be the sense that once you have climbed the ladder of success, that you don't push it away from the building.

The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.

My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years.

No, I'm not a good shot, but I shoot often.

If I had said, "I don't stand a chance," one thing is clear: I wouldn't have.

Nine out of ten businesses fail; so I came up with a foolproof plan - create ten businesses.

Persistence means giving full concentration to whatever you are doing right now. ... Persistence is success through trial, error, resetting your goals, and moving toward the target.

If you're not in love with what you do, business will be really tough. You can do good one day, and bad the next. You can have a great year, and a bad year that wipes away all of your success.

The most successful scientists are not the most talented. But they are the ones who are impelled by curiosity. They've got to know what the answer is