Quotes About Perseverance

Nobody achieves anything great by giving the minimum. No teams win championships without making sacrifices and giving their best.

Nobody finishes well by accident.

A dream requires a partner: commitment.

you can act your way into feeling long before you can feel your way into action. If you wait until you feel like doing something, you will likely never accomplish it.

If you want to be a leader, the good news is that you can do it. Everyone has the potential, but it isn't accomplished overnight. It requires perseverance.

The whole idea of motivation is a trap. Forget motivation. Just do it.

Great minds have purposes; others have wishes. Little minds are subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them.

Sometimes we are afraid because success puts pressure on us to continue to succeed.

isn't fair. It isn't going to be fair. Stop sniveling and whining and go out and make it happen for you. Wishing that a risk wasn't yours to take won't make it any easier. In fact, it might make it harder. Your attitude about it is your choice.

There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing to climb himself." —Andrew Carnegie

The first important step in weathering failure is learning not to personalize it.

If at First You Do Succeed, Try Something Harder

You must reject common thinking if you want to accomplish uncommon results.

The book you don't read can't help you; the seminar you won't attend can't change your life. The business gets better when you get better. Never wish it were easier, wish you were better.

You don't win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training," says (Seth) Godin. "There's no such thing as an overnight opera sensation. Great law firms or design companies don't spring up overnight…every great company, every great brand, and every great career has been built in exactly the same way: bit by bit, step by step, little by little." There is no magic solution to success.

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is often painful. But we need to recognize that there are really two kinds of pain when it comes to our daily conduct. There's the pain of self-discipline and the pain of regret. Most people avoid the pain of self-discipline because it's the easy thing to do. What they may not realize is that the pain of self-discipline is momentary but the pay-off is long lasting.

Laughing is the quickest way to get up and get going again when you've been knocked down. Failing Forward

A person who has a dream knows what he is willing to give up in order to go up.

Do you know the difference between leaders, followers, and losers? Leaders stretch with challenges. Followers struggle with challenges. Losers shrink from challenges.

People are training for success when they should be training for failure. Failure is far more common than success; poverty is more prevalent than wealth; and disappointment more normal than arrival. —J.WALLACE HAMILTON

Every successful person is someone who failed, yet never regarded himself as a failure.

En Harvard y otras universidades, estudiaron la importancia de la actitud en el éxito de las personas. Se descubrió que la actitud era mucho más importante que la inteligencia, la educación, el talento especial o la suerte. De hecho, se llegó a la conclusión de que hasta un 85% del éxito en la vida se debe a tener una actitud positiva y educable, mientras que sólo un 15% se debe a la capacidad.

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in business. You've got to keep working that talent.

I got to the top the hard way—fighting my own laziness and ignorance every step of the way.