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Quotes About Perseverance

Being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome.
~ Fannie Flagg
The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
~ Charles Kettering
Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.
~ Sylvia Plath
The two things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision.
~ Robyn Davidson
In war there is no second prize for the runner-up.
~ General Omar N. Bradley
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
~ Washington Irving
Success isn't something that happens to you; you happen to it.
~ Ivanka Trump
A great attitude is not the result of success; success is the result of a great attitude.
~ Earl Nightingale
I was relentless, even in the face of total lack of encouragement, because much more often than you'd think, sheer persistence is the difference between success and failure.
~ Donald Trump
Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
~ Napoleon Hill
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
~ Walter Scott
Nothing good comes in life or athletics unless a lot of hard work has preceded the effort. Only temporary success is achieved by taking short cuts.
~ Roger Staubach
There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success.
~ Paul Bryant
Open your eyes and look around carefully at the moments when you think you have failed, because the lighthouse of the success mysteriously appears amongst the fog at those very moments!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.
~ Lowell Thomas
High school sports: where lessons of life are still being learned, and where athletes still compete for the love of the game and their teammates.
~ Michael Powers
A failure is like fertilizer; it stinks to be sure, but it makes things grow faster in the future.
~ Denis Waitley
All great achievements have one thing in common - people with a passion to succeed
~ Pat Cash
Success is not measured in achievement of goals, but in the stress and strain of meeting those goals
~ Spencer W. Kimball
To succeed, it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.
~ Michael Korda
I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.
~ Og Mandino
The last thing you want to do is finish playing or doing anything and wish you would have worked harder.
~ Derek Jeter
There is no single recipe for success. But there is one essential ingredient: Passion
~ Martha Stewart
If you care at all,you'll get some results. If you care enough, you'll get incredible results.
~ Edward Simmons