Quotes About Perseverance

Great people are not people who have never fallen down. Greatness has to do with how you get back up.

In order to do great things, it is necessary to live as if one was never to die.

Being a great father is like shaving. No matter how good you shaved today, you have to do it again tomorrow.

If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail. Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.

Nobody thought I'd be a great coach. I'm the kind of guy you'd expect to be driving an 18-wheeler through town.

I didn't inherit any great success and the problems that came with it, and yet I was able to keep working and supporting myself and later a family. I'm crazy fortunate.

He's got great vision. If he can get outside, he can take it all the way. That's what we were worried about.

I want to deal with what's in front of me now to the best of my abilities, and sometimes that's not very good. But a lot of the days it is really great.

You don't have to live in a garage to write great poetry.

With great effort comes great gratification.

Few are more unhappy than those who have great ambition, but little energy to urge it into activity.

It's like athletes: To be a great company you need great competitors...It's what keeps you alive and keeps you honest.

But as the Roman playwright Terence once wrote, From many a bad beginning great friendships have formed

2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.

I heard a lot in school, 'You've got a really great talent, but there's no way you're going to be a dancer with that body.

Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.

There is no great future for any people whose faith has burned out.

Great people are just ordinary people with an extraordinary amount of determination. They simply don't know how to quit. They just keep on 'keepin' on'.

We have to make sure, at Apple, that we stay true to focus, laser focus - we know we can only do great things a few times, only on a few products.

Everybody can have one great year. I've got to prove I can do it again.

I know that I'm breaking down barriers. And I know that in the end I'm doing a great thing.

Stumbling upon the next great invention in an 'ah-ha!' moment is a myth.

No great thing comes to any person unless that person has courage.

Great things that can happen when you're doing a movie.