Quotes About Perseverance

There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.

It's hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender

Hoping never done nothing. It wanting that do it. You got to want to win so bad you can taste it. If you want to win bad enough you win.

That's why successful people in every field are almost universally members of a certain set—the set of people who don't give up.

Stephen Hawking once told me that there was a sense in which he was glad to be paralyzed, because it allowed him to focus much more intensely on his work.

Michael Jordan once said, "I've missed more than nine thousand shots in my career. I've lost almost three hundred games. Twenty-six times, I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

My father had drawn number 3,004 in a death lottery in which German precision trumped Nazi brutality.

in 1904 he applied for a promotion from patent clerk third class to patent clerk second class and was turned down.

The reason is, when there is a hard problem, one has to work a long time and has to be persistent. In order to be persistent, you have got to be convinced that it's worthwhile working so hard, that you're going to get somewhere.

recent years psychologists have found that the ability to persist in the face of obstacles is at least as important a factor in success as talent.

By his own assessment, he was no genius. He had no great quickness of apprehension or wit or power to follow a long and purely abstract train of thought. On the many occasions when I share those feelings, I find it encouraging to review those words because that Englishman did okay for himself—his name was Charles Darwin.

We can focus on the ability to react to events rather than relying on the ability to predict them, on qualities like flexibility, confidence, courage, and perseverance.

What I've learned, above all, is to keep marching forward because the best news is that since chance does play a role, one important factor in success is under our control: the number of at bats, the number of chances taken, the number of opportunities seized.

Or as the IBM pioneer Thomas Watson said, "If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.

IBM pioneer Thomas Watson said, "If you want to succeed, double your failure rate." I

to keep control of some important aspects of one's life despite an environment that seemed overwhelming.

Of the three traditional ways of making a living — mud, blood, and grease — preaching involves all three: the mud pies of creativity, the blood bank of living in the Word, and the grease pit of hard work and dirty hands.

You can't up-up-and-away in creativity and innovation without spending down-on-the-ground time in the muck and the mire.

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

Obstacles cannot crush me; every obstacle yields to stern resolve.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

People of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and made things happen.