Perseverance famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want. If God gave you the talent, you should go for it. But don't think it's going to be easy. It's hard!
-- Aaliyah -
Practice is a talent. Perseverance is a talent. Hard work is a talent.
-- Abhinav Bindra -
Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
-- Abigail Adams -
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I know not how to aid you, save in the assurance of one of mature age, and much severe experience, that you can not fail, if you resolutely determine, that you will not.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Adhere to your purpose and you will soon feel as well as you ever did. On the contrary, if you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and will regret it all your life.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I expect to maintain this contest until successful, or till I die, or am conquered, or my term expires, or Congress or the country forsakes me...
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I shall not do more than I can, and I shall do all I can to save the government, which is my sworn duty as well as my personal inclination. I shall do nothing in malice. What I deal with is too vast for malicious dealing.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Sports can unite a group of people from different backgrounds, all working together to achieve a common goal. And even if they fall short, sharing that journey is an experience they'll never forget. It can teach some of the most fundamental and important human values: dedication, perseverance, hard work, and teamwork. It also teaches us how to handle our success and cope with our failure. So, perhaps the greatest glory of sport is that is teaches us so much about life itself.
-- Ahmad Rashad -
I salute you for your courage, and I applaud your perseverance, and I embrace you for your faith in the face of adversarial forces.
-- Alanis Morissette -
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
-- Albert Einstein -
A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
-- Alexander Graham Bell -
The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion... It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider - and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation - persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.
-- Alexander Graham Bell -
What can people not accomplish if they will but master the secret of steadfast perseverance.
-- Alice Hegan Rice -
We will be ourselves and free, or die in the attempt. Harriet Tubman was not our great-grandmother for nothing.
-- Alice Walker -
No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.
-- Amar Bose -
Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
You cannot fake effort; talent is great, but perseverance is necessary.
-- Amy Bloom -
I met Jay Jonhson. I won him the way poor people occasionally win the lottery: Shameless perseverance and embarrassingly dumb luck, and every time I see one of those sly, toothless, beaten-down souls on TV holding a winning ticket, I think, Go, team.
-- Amy Bloom -
I encourage all of you to find strength within yourself, no matter what. Be proud of who you are and never let anyone or anything take that away from you. Inner Strength is something that we are all born with. However, I've learned that it requires patience and perseverance to fully achieve it. I promise you, though, that as long as you know in your heart who you are and what you want from this world, nothing is gonna stop you.
-- Andy Biersack -
My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.
-- Anna Sewell -
I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It's a voice of pain and victory.
-- Anthony Hamilton -
The fruits of the earth are not brought to perfection immediately, but by time, rain and care; similarly, the fruits of men ripen through ascetic practice, study, time, perseverance, self-control and patience.
-- Anthony the Great -
I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.
-- Arnold Palmer -
‎Once we recognize what it is we are feeling, once we recognize we can feel deeply, love deeply, can feel joy, then we will demand that all parts of our lives produce that kind of joy.
-- Audre Lorde -
I am still learning - how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in the service of what I believe, how to accept when I fail and rejoice when I succeed.
-- Audre Lorde -
I tried always to do better: saw always a little further. I tried to stretch myself.
-- Audrey Hepburn -
For we constantly deal with practical problems, with moulders, contractors, derricks, stonemen, trucks, rubbish, plasterers and what-not-else, all the while trying to soar into the blue.
-- Augustus Saint-Gaudens -
The four basic ingredients for success are: you must have the will to want something; you must have the right kind of attitude; you must have perseverance, and then you must have wisdom. Then you combine these four and then you get to where you want to get to.
-- Aung San Suu Kyi -
Dig into almost every overnight success story and you’ll find about a decade’s worth of hard work and perseverance.
-- Austin Kleon -
It is easy to be disgruntled if you are denied rights and freedoms to which you feel entitled. But if you are not coherent, if you cannot put into words what it is that displeases you and why it is unfair and should change, then you are dismissed as an unreasonable whiner. You may be lectured about perseverance and patience, life as a test, the need to accept the higher wisdom of others.
-- Ayaan Hirsi Ali -
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
-- B. C. Forbes -
A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
-- B. F. Skinner -
If you practice yoga every day with perseverance, you will be able to face the turmoil of life with steadiness and maturity.
-- B.K.S. Iyengar -
You just can't beat the person who never gives up.
-- Babe Ruth -
Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it's not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. it's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.
-- Barack Obama -
Those who would attain to any marked degree of excellence in a chosen pursuit must work, and work hard for it, prince or peasant.
-- Bayard Taylor -
I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.
-- Bell Hooks -
When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.
-- Bell Hooks -
If America is the land of opportunity, a country where perseverance and hard work is rewarded by recognition, then an illegal harbors the opposite ambitions. His greatest reward us anonymity, invisibility. Aided and abetted by market forces and the laws of supply and demand, he hones his skill to stand up but make sure he's never counted.
-- Bella Pollen -
It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.
-- Ben Stein -
Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams.
-- Benjamin Carson -
Perseverance and tact are the two great qualities most valuable for all those who would climb, but especially for those who have to step out of the crowd.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
Perseverance and tact are the two most important qualities for the individual who wants to move ahead.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
As long as a man stays alive he can't tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.
-- Bernard Malamud -
If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light, not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of his daily work.
-- Beryl Markham -
When I was about five, I gave my heart to Jesus Christ, and since then it's just been a stronghold in my life. Really, through the shark attack and all the hard times that my family and I went through, it gave us unity and perseverance to push through all this crazy stuff that we never knew was going to happen.
-- Bethany Hamilton -
Marriage takes perseverance and determination. There are always opportunities to walk away from marriage but I feel very strongly that you have a responsibility once you start a family.
-- Betty Churcher -
When I began my humanitarian work, I understood that in order to gain credibility I needed patience, commitment and unwavering perseverance. I needed to ignore the skeptics.
-- Bianca Jagger -
Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.
-- Bill Bradley -
Champions keep playing until they get it right.
-- Billie Jean King -
Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.
-- Biz Stone -
Even if you don't see the results of your planting, just keep Planting your Love. Your Patience. Your Perseverance. Your Faith.
-- Bo Sanchez -
A hero is someone who over and over does the right thing even though no one is there to witness it.
-- Bob Kerrey -
Perseverance is a virtue that cannot be understated.
-- Bob Riley -
All the information you need is available to you to have a successful career in music, if you're paying attention, and not closed off to anything. Remember, Perseverance is King.
-- Bradley Joseph -
If we want to cultivate hopefulness, we have to be willing to be flexible and demonstrate perseverance. Not every goal will look and feel the same. Tolerance for disappointment, determination, and a belief in self are the heart of hope.
-- Brené Brown -
It's all about perseverance. I just had this attitude … where failure was just not an option.
-- Brian Binnie -
The U.S. Olympic spirit award is an award that is given to an athlete who embodies the Olympic spirit in more ways than just on the playing field, in showing incredible perseverance, in overcoming obstacles, and what we wanted to do is have everybody can vote on-line.
-- Brian Boitano -
Your persistence is, in fact, the true measure of your belief in yourself and your ability to succeed. Each time that you persist in the face of adversity and disappointment, you build the habit of persistence.
-- Brian Tracy -
Persistence is the great measure of individual human character.
-- Brian Tracy -
Perhaps the greatest display of self-discipline is persisting when the going gets tough. Persistence is self-discipline in action.
-- Brian Tracy -
What does it matter if a few barking dogs snap at the heels of the weary travelers? ... The caravan moves on
-- Bruce R. McConkie -
Luck is a component that a lot of people in the arts sometimes fail to recognise: that you can have talent, perseverance, patience, but without luck you will not have a successful career.
-- Bryan Cranston -
God knows our situation; He will not judge us as if we had no difficulties to overcome. What matters is the sincerity and perseverance of our will to overcome them.
-- C. S. Lewis -
Be audacious and cunning in your plans, firm and persevering in their execution, determined to find a glorious end.
-- Carl von Clausewitz -
One of the first principles of perseverance is to know when to stop persevering.
-- Carolyn Wells -
Through persistence, you can be one of those happy, victorious people who not only chases dreams, but who catches them! The persistent man also perseveres long enough for his dreams to catch up with him!
-- Catherine Ponder -
Now then, you of noble mind, who love this profession, come at once to art and accept these precepts: enthusiasm , reverence, obedience, and perseverance. As soon as you can, place yourself under the guidance of a master, and remain with him as long as possible.
-- Cennino Cennini -
Nothing can be done except little by little.
-- Charles Baudelaire -
It was a harder day's journey than yesterday's, for there were long and weary hills to climb; and in journeys, as in life, it is a great deal easier to go down hill than up. However, they kept on, with unabated perseverance, and the hill has not yet lifted its face to heaven that perseverance will not gain the summit of at last.
-- Charles Dickens -
By perseverance the snail reached the ark.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
If one concentrates on one thing and does not get away from it ... he will possess strong, moving power.
-- Cheng Yi -
It was entirely due to my mother [a devout Buddhist] and her kindness and perseverance that the family was saved from utter ruin. For a period of 17 years--from the age of 9 until I was 25 years old--my mother never spent a day free from domestic difficulties.
-- Chiang Kai-shek -
(The movie) is the story of my life, but it's not about me. It's about anybody who ever dreamed big and had someone tell them, 'No, you can't do it.' You can.
-- Chris Gardner -
We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
I have always been one to encourage perseverance.
-- Christina Aguilera -
When business is not all that it should be there is a temptation to sit back and say, Well, what's the use! We've done everything possible to stir up a little business and there is nothing doing so what's the use of trying! There is always a way. There was a way in and there is a way out. And success comes to the man who grits his teeth, squares his jaw, and says, There is a way for me and, by jingo, I'll find it. The stagnator gathers green scum, finally dries up and leaves an unsightly hollow.
-- Cliff Sloan -
Becoming a professional artist takes talent and perseverance, even more so when the field is photography.
-- Clyde Butcher -
I don't rate myself as a fantastic, talented athlete. I just have perseverance. I'm a cart horse. I work hard.
-- Colleen De Reuck -
It's all about perseverance. Absolute perseverance. You can always get back up.
-- Cory Monteith -
I often ask myself, 'Who would Jesus vote for?' Then I start to think that he wouldn't vote at all; however, it would not be out of apathy or disinterest, but out of perfection and light. As a miracle worker, I think he would, by the power of God's teachings, the perseverance and the truth, influence in a modern sense whoever is put into office how to best serve his fellow men. One, like his skeptics, may find that impractical. But there is a message in that no man in power can slow the momentum of the will of God, and the miracles of his teachings will be forever victorious.
-- Criss Jami -
All my life I've believed in myself. And I have never given up.
-- Curtis Pride -
Most of the time I liked school and got good grades. In junior high, though, I hit a stumbling block with math - I used to come home and cry because of how frustrated I was! But after a few good teachers and a lot of perseverance, I ended up loving math and even choosing it as a major when I got to college.
-- Danica McKellar -
Emotional self-awareness is the building block of the next fundamental emotional intelligence: being able to shake off a bad mood.
-- Daniel Goleman -
Perhaps the seeds of redemption lay not just in perseverance, hard work, and rugged individualism. Perhaps they lay in something more fundamental—the simple notion of everyone pitching in and pulling together.
-- Daniel James Brown -
Two roads diverged in a wood, I took the one less travelled I'm patient so that's one less hassle If I dream it, I can live it I've seen the light with vivid imagery I need to write with fits of energy But it's hard tryin' to get where I'm goin' Without a hint or an omen It's too late to turn around Perseverance, gotta learn it now But I'm stubborn how Am I supposed to survive this rollercoaster hurtlin' to the ground?
-- Danny Denzongpa -
Set realistic goals short and long term. 2. Plan an orderly and thorough routine to train the entire body. 3. Make a commitment to stick to your routine for four to six weeks to realize the changes and benefits, develop perseverance and create a habit. 4. Establish enthusiasm for your training, the driving force to perform successfully. 5. Ease into an appropriate training program with a wholesome, thoughtful nutritional plan: proper foods, amounts and order of consumption. 6. Be confident from the beginning that the application of these sound principles will produce the desired results.
-- Dave Draper
