Quotes About Perseverance

No one knows what he can do till he tries.

Excellence without effort is as futile as progress without preparation.

A refined ability to learn from failure and to grow through losses is necessary to achieve excellence in any human endeavor.

Ten thousand times I've done my best and all's to do again.

There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.

Those who would attain to any marked degree of excellence in a chosen pursuit must work, and work hard for it, prince or peasant.

Average is the enemy of excellence, and average commitment will prevent you from enduring to the end.

There is no excellency without difficulty.

You've just got to focus on excellence and try not to be distracted by the news and the rumors and the absurdities of the stories that were coming out.

I believe in striving for excellence. I sweat the big and small stuff! I do not apologize for this.

Excellence is a choice, and you must make that choice over and over again until "doing your best" is all you know.

The only way to get out of mediocrity is to keep shooting for excellence.

Excellence-moral, ethical, personal excellence-is worth whatever it costs.

Greatness is not attainable, but in the pursuit of it, you can achieve excellence.

Just keep taking the next step and keep having excellence in the ordinary.

Failure is the price of excellence.

Excellence is never an accident.

Merely to have survived is not an index of excellence.

Being an Olympian, I always have this strong belief in excellence.

If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way

Anything worth doing, is worth doing right.

We downplay our excellence when we only depend on miracles.

Gravity keeps your body down from flying high. On the other hand, nothing can keep you down from outperforming yourself and from continually growing to become excellent.

Excellence is not a skill. It is an attidute.