Quotes About Perseverance

The ability to focus is the key separation point between those who move ahead and those who fall behind.

Everyone starts life with a fire in their soul; sadly most are snuffed out in the storms of life.

Leaders dig into their business to learn painful realities rather than peaceful illusion.

Most people fail in life because they were not prepared for the opportunities when they appeared.

When your reasons rise above your excuses, so will you.

The only thing tougher than developing leadership skills is attempting to be successful without them.

Few lack talent, but most people lack the vision & perseverance to develop their talents.

It's absurd to be upset by a lack of results when the cause is a lack of activity.

Most people settle in life with no satisfaction. Winners are satisfied without ever settling.

To lead from the front you must get off your behind.

Truth is only sweet to the ears only after a person is sick of drinking the vinegar of repeated failures.

Winners aren't those who lose the least, but rather those who learn the most from their losses on their way to victory.

Weakness of skills can be overcome with strength of will.

Winners make every setback a floor to launch higher. Non-winners make every setback a ceiling to launch lower.

To ensure longterm failure is not an option, one must learn from many short-term failures.

Fame and fortune await the few with the faith to fall forward despite frustrating failures.

If talent is the floor and character the ceiling, then work-ethic is the altitude of personal achievement.

There's always hope... even when there isn't faith. And sometimes, without hope or faith, there must be charity.

Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.

The only way to stay out of trouble is to grow old, so I guess I'll concentrate on that. Maybe I'll live so long that I'll forget her—maybe I'll die trying.

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris ... [because] no known motor can run at the requisite speed for four days without stopping.

When he learned that we were interested in flying as a sport, and not with any expectation of recovering the money we were expending on it, he gave us much encouragement. At

Despair is impossible in humans. They often are deceived by hope, but are also deceived by the notion of despair.

The smile of one flower permeates those who live next to death more than the problem of life and death.