Quotes About Persistence

You know, many of you kids can't relate to what it takes to get to the top rung, the top of the heap, to have success. We're looking for things that come in a minute. It just doesn't happen.

Everything valuable takes time, there are no overnight successes.

Success is achieved in inches, not miles.

I'm not an overnight success. My early publishing history, through my first five books, was unfortunate in many respects, typified by a couple of short anecdotes.

PhD, MFA, self-taught - the only things you must have to become a writer are the stamina to continue and a wily, cagey heart in the face of extremity, failure, and success.

Absence of failure does not constitute success.

Success lives with no address as people keep searching for it in spite of making any amount or level of progress

Whether it's marriage of business, patience is the first rule of success.

There are pockets of the church that will "give up," and reap a bountiful harvest. They are going to have huge success, like the church has never experienced since the Book of Acts.

Careful living and correct training methods aided me a great deal, but I would say straight punching was the foundation of all my success.

It takes three years to be an overnight success, sometimes more.

Often, you'll fail. But, as my mother also taught me, failure isn't the opposite of success - it's a stepping stone to success.

Small successes are still successes; great failures are still failures.

Building businesses takes tremendous stamina, and success isn't achieved without it.

If failure isn't an option, then success isn't either. Success is just failure repeated until it works.

For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever.

I didn't have any success in show business until I was 30 to 31 years of age.

It's hard to go out and practice every single day, and you get really tired. But you have to believe in yourself.

The road to success is always under construction. It is a progressive course, not an end to be reached.

The way of success is not run with seven league boots but step by step, little by little, bit by bit ... with no exceptions allowed.

I don't think I'm stubborn. I just focus on the task at hand and do what it takes. Persistence is the single most important thing for success.

Do the very best that you can, in the things you do best, and you will know in thy soul, that you are the greatest success in the world.

Failures are easier to repeat than successes.

Anytime anybody does anything - unless it's in the realm of the obviously awful, which is fun too in a different way - it is in many ways a success.