Quotes About Perseverance

Just because you are struggling does NOT mean you are failing. Every great success requires some kind of struggle to get there.

The great thing about him, is that he will not quit.

Before every great opportunity God gave me a great trial.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

No one ever attains success by simply doing what is required of him.

Great men are just ordinary men that didn't quit.

One of the most important rules for success is this: Every great success is the result of hundreds and thousands of small efforts and accomplishments that no one sees or appreciates.

No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.

Frustration is one of the great things in art. Satisfaction is nothing.

Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.

Great character is forged through hardships.

Don't dodge difficulties; meet them, greet them, beat them. All great men have been through the wringer.

People don't have great attitudes because of great success, they have great success largely because of great attitudes.

Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.

It's a beauty one isn't born with, but must fight to construct at great sacrifice.

There is nothing better than getting shot at and missed. It's really great.

No one who has ever done anything really great or successful has ever done it simply because he was attracted by what we call a 'reward' or by the fear of what we call a 'punishment.'

I may not have proved a great explorer, but we have done the greatest march ever made and come very near to great success.

What you have to remember is that the great feelings come after the terrible ones.

With great victory comes great sacrifice.

I have great faith in God. Without faith, I don't know how I would have been able to get through what I've been through.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

If you're going to be a writer you have to be one of the great ones... After all, there are better ways to starve to death.

Read no less than ½ hour a day or listen to audiobooks while in the car or cleaning the house. Biographies of great people taught me, as I said, that even eminent people fail but keep getting up.