Quotes About Perseverance

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eye off the goal." —Hannah More6

If failure is not a possibility then winning is not so sweet.

Perhaps the unwelcome event you've encountered is just an opportunity to help you know how to stand up stronger.

Hill once said: "Failure seems to be nature's plan for preparing us for great responsibilities."4

The difference between the successful and the troubled is not error-free living; it is that by discovering and implementing a life calling, the successful stand on their pile of trash while the troubled sit under theirs.

Bernie Marcus was fired from a job as manager of the Handy Dan Improvement Center, then went on to start Home Depot.

Discipline is the difference between a good life and a great one.

Discipline is the foundation upon which all success is built.

Discipline is the key to unlocking your full potential.

If you wait for inspiration to write, you're not a writer. You're a waiter.

If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure.

As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.

Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow

I would rather wear out than rust out.

The same generation that had been driven to such depths in the 1930s rose up to push back the forces of totalitarianism in a two-ocean global war in the 1940s.

But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? . . . We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win.

We can't afford to be Pollyannas or blind ourselves to real dangers, but we also should try not to succumb to despair. If we believe our vision for what our country is is worth fighting for, then we should fight for it. This is our right and duty as citizens.

every relationship you are in will fail, until one doesn't

That's your job. To make something out of nothing. To pull together all the disparate threads: recruiting (with no money), fundraising (with no reputation), and delivering joy (with no product). You must fabricate the chicken and the egg. Simultaneously.

Its hard to die. Harder to live

I've lost more times than I've won, and every damn time I got back up! That's all that matters!

In the book The Dip, Seth Godin explains the importance and benefits of becoming the best in the world at what you do. As Godin explains in The Dip: "The rewards are heavily skewed, so much so that it's typical for #1 to get ten times the benefit of #10, and a hundred times the benefit of #100.

Then as everything, like I say, things started to come together, when things started to go our way, that's when you results started to come. I was no different driver. I was certainly learning every time I went in the car.