Quotes About Perseverance

No leader, however great, can long continue unless he wins battles. The battle decides all.

Work hard. Come early, stay late. That's the way leadership has to approach it.

Follow me if I advance, kill me if I retreat, avenge me if I die.

Are decent people in positions of leadership eternally condemned to Calvary?

Masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Leaders are not born, they're made.

Persevere in thy quest and thou shalt find what thou seekest. Pursue thy aim unswervingly and thou shalt gain victory. Struggle earnestly and thou shalt triumph.

Making an enduring company was both harder and more important than making a great product.

Winners see the dream and develop plans while the rest see the obstacles and develop justifications.

If you don't try, if you don't do something for yourself, you won't get anywhere.

We can rationalize anything and easily quit on ourselves. Leadership is refusing to quit on others.

Leaders aren't born they are made.

I tell young players who want to be coaches, who think they can put up with all the headaches and heartaches, can you live without it? If you can live without it, don't get in it.

I always want my players to show class, knock'em down, pat on the back, and run back to the huddle.

Rather than having small smart tricks to get by, focus on holding on and persevering.

So in many ways for me, having lived through what I've lived through, and endured what I've endured, I've got more confidence that I can do the next bit - and there's something sustaining about that.

If you want to be an entrepreneur, fail as fast as you can. The longer you go without that experience, the more afraid you will be of it, and then you will never do it!

The worst days of leadership beat the best days of being an onlooker.

The #1 reasons are unsuccessful is their inability to lead themselves.

Fail early, fail often, but always fail forward.

Any man who retreats into a cave which has only one opening deserves to die.

Part of leadership (a big part of it actually) is the ability to stick with the dream for a long time.

Roman matrons used to say to their sons: 'Come back with your shield or on it.' Later on, this custom declined. So did Rome... (but not before it created an Empire that changed the world -EM).

Successful people willingly do what unsuccessful people are unwilling to do.