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Quotes About Perseverance

Failure isn't failing at the project at hand. Failure is giving up on yourself.
~ Donna de Varona
... the human soul, beaten down, overwhelmed, faced by complete failure and ruin, can still rise up against unbearable odds and triumph.
~ Harold Russell
Do not take yourself too seriously. You have to learn not to be dismayed at making mistakes. No human being can avoid failures.
~ Lawrence G. Lovasik
As Danand Ian over at the Lifestyle Business Podcast say: Rush to failure.
~ Thomas A. Edison
Nothing succeeds like - failure.
~ Tommy Lasorda
Wine gave a sort of gallantry to their own failure.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Failure is not always a bad thing. You just have to be smart while you're in the middle of it. You're in the eye of the tornado of like disappointment to know that it's just a storm and it'll pass.
~ Pharrell Williams
Failure is no shame - but not making the attempt is despicable.
~ Unknown
Reconcile the loss of the painting - no matter how many times it may happen - with the joy of beginning again.
~ Joshua L. Goldberg
The way to succeed is to double your error rate.
~ Thomas J. Watson
Failure makes excuses. Success just keeps swinging the bat.
~ Marshall Sylver
Failure can either be a stepping stone to success or a stumbling to defeat.
~ Ron Holland
Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I wouldn't have been what you'd call a champion if I had accepted failure when it first came, if I had looked at it and said, 'Well, that's it.'
~ Unknown
Defeats and failures are great developers of character. They have made the giants of our race by giving Titanic muscles, brawny sinews, and far-reaching intellects.
~ Orison Swett Marden
People will still make great art, but I think it's good to assume you will always be a failure. People were believing the opposite.
~ Wade Guyton
If you think you can - you can!
~ Ronald Reagan
Failure is just a few seconds away from success.
~ John Flanagan
To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
Failure is not a verdict; making mistakes is the price of the ticket.
~ Daniel Coyle
Doubt is one of the main paths on the highway to failure.
~ Rick Pitino
Failure's hard. There's no way around. Bombing on stage never feels great. You feel judged, you feel alone. But then when your performance works, it's transcendent.
~ Mike Birbiglia
I enjoy the fun of failure. It's fun to fail, I kept repeating. It's part of being ambitious; it's part of being creative. If something is worth doing, it's worth doing badly
~ Gretchen Rubin
The only true failure is failure to try.
~ Wes Fesler