Quotes About Perseverance

A failure doesn't mean you are unworthy, nor does it preclude success on the next try.

For something to be great, there has to be some kind of trial or some type of struggle that actually makes it special or valuable to you. Otherwise, anything could be easily taken for granted.

The harder you work, the luckier you are, and I worked like hell.

The only thing tougher than developing leadership skills is attempting to be successful without them.

What matters is not publication or success (success is bad for your prose) but the practice of the imaginative act. Our damaged values depend on it.

Oddly enough, success over a period of time is more expensive than failure.

If success is rare and slow, everybody knows how quick and easy ruin is.

Success is the process of not accepting failure.

I consider that success for anything, whether it's being a musician or a writer. As long as you can support yourself, you're successful. People need to change their idea of what success is.

Success is made of 99% failure.

The road to success may be, and generally is, obstructed by many influences which must be removed before the goal can be reached.

Overcoming hardships and working around and through their obstacles to achieve an education is what I call a true success.

My music career has been very rewarding, but success never came easily.

No man can climb the ladder of success without first placing his foot on the bottom rung.

The antidote for fear of failure is not success but small doses of failure.

It's how tenacious you are that will determine your success.

Great success is a great temptation.

Sometimes my success is attributed to my height (which is 7'2"), which I won't deny does help to an extent. But honestly, the rest comes from a healthy mix of workout and practice everyday.

If I train the hardest, run the longest, go beyond what anyone else has the mental determination to do, I will be the winner.

If failure had no penalty success would not be a prize.

The conquering of adversity produces strength of character, forges self-confidence, engenders self-respect, and assures success in righteous endeavor.

Success and happiness spring from facing failure after failure with enthusiasm.

There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success.

We have to succeed, so we will.