Quotes About Perseverance

Before beginning [to try to prove Fermat's Last Theorem] I should have to put in three years of intensive study, and I haven't that much time to squander on a probable failure.

I think a lot of people are so scared of failure that they don't put everything they have into whatever they want to do. I think, in turn, they write their own destiny.

Most success springs from an obstacle or failure.

There's no such thing as failure if you just try.

What if the Secret to Success is Failure?.

If I had feelings, I probably wouldn't have even survived.

Failure is not an option. It just happens all the time. Like, all the time.

Failure is... the highway to success.

Failure leaves open a door for us to try, and try again.

With failure, you just try again.

Whatever we succeed in doing is a transformation of something we have failed to do. Thus, when we fail, it is only because we have given up.

Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.

The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny.

Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure.

Determination is frequently found in failure, but it is never found in defeat.

I have a fear of failure.

Remove failure as an option.

Failure is a disappointment, but not defeat.

No man or woman is uniformly successful... we must all expect a rather high percentage of failure in the things we attempt.

The fearful are the failing.

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and everything else, but you have a failure, pal, and they don't want to know nothing about you!

Succes is really nothing more than the record of failure. To be successful means you must be willing to fail more than anyone else.

Artists know failure. It is not tragic that they know failure; it is only tragic if they know failure and little else.