Quotes About Perseverance

My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years.

Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.

You rarely win, but sometimes you do.

I once heard someone say that success is not hocus pocus but focus focus.

The height of your success is determined by the depth of your belief.

Action is the foundation of all success.

No, I'm not a good shot, but I shoot often.

Success is failure with the dirt brushed off.

Remember to dream big, think long-term, underachieve on a daily basis, and take baby steps. That is the key to long-term success.

Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

If you're not in love with what you do, business will be really tough. You can do good one day, and bad the next. You can have a great year, and a bad year that wipes away all of your success.

I want to give my six hours of serious cricket on the ground and then take whatever the result.

Success rests with having the courage and endurance and, above all, the will to become the person you are, however peculiar that may be. Then you will be able to say, I found my hero and he is me.

Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success.

Spend at least some of your training time, and other parts of your day, concentrating on what you are doing in training and visualizing your success.

No man achieves great success who is unwilling to make personal sacrifices.

Success is a worn down pencil.

Impatience never commanded success.

No man is ever whipped until he quits - in his own mind.

The man who has not learned the secret of taking the drudgery out of his task by flinging his whole soul into it, has not learned the first principles of success or happiness.

Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

I didn't allow failure to break my heart. So I wouldn't allow success to bloat my head.