Quotes About Perseverance

Getting knocked down in life is a given; getting up and moving forward is a choice.

patience becomes a reality in us because we cling to God during times when we long for quick, complete solutions to our problems.

Could it be that God has been trying to form the quality of patience in us by putting difficulties, obstacles, and obstinate people in our lives? God's curriculum for all of us includes several courses on Patience 101, 201, and 301. Will we try to skip school, or will we be good students and learn our lessons?

You don't have to be great to start. But you do have to start to be great.

Courage is not the absence of fear; it's going ahead despite the fear.

You can encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated."—MAYA ANGELOU

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

how you get up in the morning will play a big part in how high you go up in life.

Martin Luther once said, "We can't keep a bird from flying over our heads, but we can keep it from building a nest in our hair!

Atitudinea ta, nu aptitudinea, este cea care determina altitudinea ta.

You can't climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.

It's your ATTITUDE not your APTITUDE that ultimately determines your ALTITUDE!

Always remember that your present situation is not your final destination. The best is yet to come.

I am a leader. Leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat Bob Marley got heat Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you're doing something right.

Failure has been correctly identified as the line of least persistence.

Nothing is more inspiring than a person with seemingly mediocre talent rising against the odds to become a champion by way of hard work, effort, and perseverance toward their goals.

I'm often asked, Which is more important--attitude or skill? The answer is that it's somewhat like asking which leg of a three-legged stool is most important. It is my complete conviction, based on a considerable amount of research, that if you have the right attitude, combined with the right skills, and build your attitude and your skills on a solid character base, you can enjoy long-lasting success.

My core philosophy on winning and motivation is summed up by saying that you were born to win, but in order to be the winner you were born to be, you have to plan to win and prepare to win before you can expect to win.

Fewer people are bent from hard work than are crooked from avoiding it.

You might occasionally feel that some people are standing in the way and slowing your progress, but in reality the biggest person standing in your way is you. Others can stop you temporarily -- you are the only one who can do it permanently.

One difference between those who make it and those who don't--regardless of their field of endeavor--is not the "talent" difference. Those who go over the top have a dream and the dream has them. They make the commitment and pursue that dream with dogged patience and persistence. Commitment produces consistent, enthusiastic effort that inevitably produces greater and greater rewards.

Of a promise," Raamo said. "I dreamed of a promise that has always been, and always will be.

We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.

It must surely be a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit that even a small number of those men and women in the hell of the prison system survive it and hold on to their humanity.