Quotes About Perseverance

if people are facing a daunting task, and their instinct is to avoid it, you've got to break down the task. Shrink the change. Make the change small enough that they can't help but score a victory.

My father wanted us to try everything and feel free to push the envelope. His attitude taught me to define failure as not trying something I want to do instead of not achieving the right outcome.

The growth mindset, then, is a buffer against defeatism. It reframes failure as a natural part of the change process. And that's critical, because people will persevere only if they perceive falling down as learning rather than as failing.

People find it more motivating to be partly finished with a longer journey than to be at the starting gate of a shorter one.

Fill pits, then build peaks.

her successes came despite a lack of authority and resources.

Rescue—if people are facing a daunting task, and their instinct is to avoid it, you've got to break down the task. Shrink the change. Make the change small enough that they can't help but score a victory. Once

big changes come from a succession of small changes. It's OK if the first changes seem almost trivial. The challenge is to get the Elephant moving, even if the movement is slow at first.

When you engineer early successes, what you're really doing is engineering hope. Hope is precious to a change effort. It's Elephant fuel.

When you've celebrated moving from 1 to 2, and then from 2 to 3, you gain confidence that you can make the next advance.

dogged focus

Teach the growth mindset. Every success is going to involve rough patches.

achieving success requires some failures along the way. Don't beat yourself up when those failures occur.

What separated Blakely from other women with the same idea was her persistence.

At this "insight" stage, it's easy to get depressed, because insight doesn't always strike immediately.

The project often feels like a failure in the middle. But if the team persists through this valley of angst and doubt, it eventually emerges with a growing sense of momentum. Team members begin to test out their new designs, and they realize the improvements they've made, and they keep tweaking the design to make it better. And they come to realize, we've cracked this problem. That's when the team reaches the peak of confidence.

Mindset, by Carol Dweck

You need to create the expectation of failure—not the failure of the mission itself, but failure en route. This

people will persevere only if they perceive falling down as learning rather than as failing.

It's easier to persevere on a long journey when you're traveling with a herd.

Big problems are rarely solved with commensurately big solutions. Instead, they are most often solved by a sequence of small solutions, sometimes over weeks, sometimes over decades. And

Why did they quit so easily? The answer may surprise you: They ran out of self-control.

It took practice, and it took persistence.

So, yes, a long journey starts with a single step, but a single step doesn't guarantee the long journey. How do you keep those steps coming?