Quotes About Persistence

He was a weedy-looking young man with straw-coloured hair and rather long legs, who had failed twice for the Foreign Office. He sometimes wore tortoiseshell-rimmed spectacles to correct a slight squint, and through influence he had recently got a job in a museum. His father was a retired civil servant who lived in Essex, where he and his wife kept a chicken farm.

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

One belief that I've developed to carry me through extremely tough times is simply this: God's delays are not God's denials.

There are no real successes without rejection. The more rejection you get, the better you are, the more you've learned, the closer you are to your outcome... If you can handle rejection, you'll learn to get everything you want.

If you're prepared, and you know what it takes, it's not a risk. You just have to figure out how to get there. There is always a way to get there. —MARK CUBAN

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

Success is buried on the other side of frustration.

If you can't you must, and if you must you can..

No one ever achieved a goal by being interested in its achievement. One must be committed.

Deciding to commit yourself to long term results rather than short term fixes is as important as any decision you'll make in your lifetime.

The truth of the matter is that there's nothing you can't accomplish if: 1) You clearly decide what it is that you're absolutely committed to achieving, 2) You are willing to take massive action, 3) You notice what's working or not, and 4) You continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want, using whatever life gives you along the way.

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

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it." —W. Somerset Maugham

don't look to jump over seven-foot bars: I look around for one-foot bars that I can step over. —WARREN BUFFETT

Why do people persist in an unsatisfying relationship, unwilling either to work toward solutions or end it and move on? It's because they know changing will lead to the unknown, and most people believe that the unknown will be much more painful than what they're already experiencing. It's like the old proverbs say: "Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know

Persistence overshadows even talent as the most valuable resource shaping the quality of life.

Disappointment can drive us, or it can defeat us.

Life is like a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. —ALBERT EINSTEIN

But it's not enough to know a principle. You have to practice it. Execution is everything.

There's always a way, if I'm committed.")

great Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova once said, "To follow, without halt, one aim: there's the secret of success.

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

I'm here to tell you that it's not important initially to know how you're going to create a result. What's important is to decide you will find a way, no matter what. In Unlimited Power, I outlined what I call "The Ultimate Success Formula," which is an elementary process for getting you where you want to go: 1) Decide what you want, 2) Take action, 3) Notice what's working or not, and 4) Change your approach until you achieve what you want.

The man on top of the mountain didn't fall there. —VINCE LOMBARDI