Quotes About Perseverance

Benjamin Franklin said, "Energy and persistence conquer all things."79

meaning is one of our greatest needs, and when it's fulfilled, we can endure any type of suffering with dignity.

Uncertainty is a spiritual enemy that will siphon out your rocket fuel. It turns go-getters into giver-uppers.

Think of your promise-keeping tendency as the storage tank for your rocket fuel—your sense of confidence. When you keep your commitments, you maintain your sense of integrity and self-respect and see yourself as a person who can be trusted. This will prevent any leakage of confidence from little quit-defeats. It will also keep you from receiving negative feedback like "we can't depend on you" or "you lack execution skills.

many people who failed did so because they gave up without realizing how close to success they were.

When your faith is strong, you've got an extra tank of rocket fuel for those times when the road is long and there are no refill stations in sight.

Napoleon Hill observed many successful men during his research for Think and Grow Rich. All of them had a strong self-image that was protected by a track record of keeping their commitments, even when doing so required herculean efforts.

I knew all these things were true. Wild Bill may have called me into coming to the place where I would experience this adventure, but Bill had crashed out, and I had pulled myself through and had come away with a sense of myself I didn't have before.

You tell 'em, love. That's what we do to the boys who kick us outta the nest.

But as for you, be strong and do not give up, for your work will be rewarded. 2 Chronicles 15:7

An unguarded strength is a double weakness.

I will continue to work as hard as I can to make this organization proud. Every time I step on the field I will give everything I have and I will leave everything I have on the field every single Sunday.

I don't try to focus on anything that doesn't affect me personally and how I go out there every single day. I'm just going to continue to work hard and focus on what I can control.

You think, 'Here's something I can hold on to,' but it always slips away.

The thought does cross my mind that I could slip and end up cracking my head on the pavement just short of the pool, but if you're always going to worry about minor drawbacks, then you'll never accomplish anything.

The real world is coming, chugging straight at me like a bulldozer into the rain forest.

The only way you're going to get something to last in this world is to work at it

There's no room inside for feeling any worse

Besides, it doesn't matter if it's real. It never does with dreams. They aren't anything anyway but lifesavers to cling to so you don't drown. Life is an ocean, and most everyone's hanging on to some kind of dream to keep afloat.

My job is okay. You know what an okay job is, don't you? It's a job you only hate some of the time instead of all of the time

Besides, it doesn't matter if it's real. It never does with dreams. They aren't anything anyway but lifesavers to cling to so you don't drown

Life is an ocean, and most everyone's hanging on to some kind of dream to keep afloat

Sabemos lo que nos espera: el futuro nos aguarda allí enfrente, como reja de hierro forjado, y el pasado nos ataca desde la retaguarda como un dóberman perverso, solo que nunca se da por vencido.

Anything's worth working for if you want it enough.