Quotes About Perseverance

My children, if you desire perseverance, be devout to our Blessed Lady.

Failure doesn't kill you... it increases your desire to make something happen.

If I can create the minimum of my plans and desires there shall be no regrets.

I see the notion of talent as quite irrelevant. I see instead perseverance, application, industry, assiduity, will, will, will, desire, desire, desire.

What does it take to be a champion? Desire, dedication, determination, concentration and the will to win.

It takes a dream to get started, desire to keep going, and determination to finish.

Perseverance, determination, commitment, and courage-those things are real. The desire for redemption drives you.

What is the single most important quality in a tennis champion? I would have to say desire, staying in there and winning matches when you are not playing that well.

I had that hunger, that desire, to be successful and I wasn't going to let anything stand in my way.

If you desire to dig a well to reach water, your efforts are more fruitful if you dig one 100-foot-deep hole than if you dig ten holes each 10 feet deep.

It isn't expectations that carry us forward, it's our desire to go on.

If any of you have a desire to be mediocre, you will probably find that you have already achieved your ambition.

Be not in the desire of thine own ease.

When I go after something, I go after it hard. It has always been that way. I don't know. It's in my blood.

Habit is stronger than desire.

What drives me? In every mission I'm on, the thing that drives me most is the desire to find my limits-and extend them.

Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly.

Good defensive play is as much a matter of hustle, desire and pride as it is anything else.

Mere literary talent is common; what is rare is endurance, the continuing desire to work hard at writing.

For as long as I am alive, I will not rest in my desire to lead my people out of an abyss of corruption and poverty.

Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.

Our desire must be like a slow and stately ship, sailing across endless oceans, never in search of safe anchorage. Then suddenly, unexpectedly, it will find mooring for a moment.

I had to be healed of my desire to be healed.

If you have a burning ambition and desire, absolutely anything can be achieved.