Quotes About Perseverance

it is just as easy to step back into the habit of succeeding as it is to slip into the habit of failing.

You are either going for your dreams or giving up your dreams. Stretching for what you could be, or settling for what you are.

The journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step." —Chinese proverb I

Rome ne s'est pas faite en un jour. (Rome wasn't built in a day.)" —ancient French proverb

I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work, the more of it I seem to have." —Coleman Cox

The journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step." —

Successful people fail their way to the top.

No, this time I needed to sit down and start carefully, methodically, systematically sorting through the mixed up pieces of my shattered life.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success." The

You are capable of great things. Show up. Show up consistently. Show up consistently with a positive outlook. Be prepared for and committed to the long haul. Cultivate a burning desire backed by faith. Be willing to pay the price. And do the things you've committed to doing-even when you don't feel like it, even when no one else is watching.

Luck is preparedness that eventually creates opportunity!

That is the difference between the 5 percent and everyone else. They know how to use the slight edge to get what they want in life. No, let's amend that slightly: they know how to use the slight edge to get what they want in life—and they do it. They do the thing, and gain the power.

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is the definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it." —Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

Great success often starts from a tiny beginning—but there has to be a beginning. You have to start somewhere. You have to do something. If you add just 1 percent of anything—skill, knowledge, effort—per day, in a year it will have more than tripled. But you have to start with the 1 percent. Greatness is not something predetermined, predestined, or carved into your fate by forces beyond your control. Greatness is always in the moment of the decision.

little steps, compounded, do make a difference.

successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do—even when it doesn't look like it makes any difference.

If you will commit to showing up consistently, every day, no matter what, then you have already won well more than half the battle.

The same activities that take us from failure to survival would also take us from survival to success—if we would just keep doing them.

They do the thing, and gain the power.

As I began examining my successes and failures, what I gradually realized was that the very same activities that had rescued me from failure, that had carried me from the failure line up to the survival line, would also rescue me from average and carry me from the survival line to the success line-IF I WOULD JUST KEEP DOING THEM.

here's how real success is built: by the time you get the feedback, the real work's already done.

I have not failed. I've simply discovered ten thousand ways that don't work.

Simple daily disciplines—little productive actions, repeated consistently over time—add up to the difference between failure and success.

You see, there is no magic bullet, quick fix, or quantum leap method to reach success.