Perseverance Quotes
A collection of famous perseverance quotes to live by. Perseverance is a personal attribute that is your main power to accomplish goals and one that you need throughout your entire life. Here are a couple of quotes that demonstrate: "Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit." by Conrad Hilton, and, "Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did." by Newt Gingrich, and "In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins- not through strength but by perseverance." by H. Jackson Brown.It would be difficult to name a more destructive human habit than procrastination - putting off until tomorrow what should have been done last week. Personal initiative is the only cure for procrastination.
Napoleon Hill, A Year Of Growing Rich
Just as there is no such thing as instant failure, neither is there automatic or instant success.
Charles R. Swindoll, Great Attitudes For Graduates
If a person would start from childhood to build a sound spiritual thought pattern, it could make him almost proof against adversity and supply him with unshakeable strength throughout his life.
Norman Vincent Peale, The Tough-Minded Optimist
Highly competent people perform with great consistency. They give their best all the time, and that's important.
~ Barry Silverstein, Motivating Employees
Every adversity, every failure and every
unpleasant experience carries with it the seed
of an equivalent benefit which may prove a blessing in disguise.
Hill, Napoloen. A Year Of Growing Rich: 52 Steps
To Achieving Life's Rewards.
Penguin Group, 1993, p. 109.
When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.
Walter Elliott
Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain.
Author Unknown
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
Dale Carnegie
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
Josh Billings
Those who aim high are strong-willed eagle types who refuse to be bothered by the negativism and skepticism of the majority. They never even use the words 'Let's just quit!'
Charles R. Swindoll
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan, 'press on' has solved, and always will solve, the problems of the human race.
Calvin Coolidge
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
Henry Ward Beecher
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
John D. Rockefeller
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
Japanese Proverb
Malcolm S. Forbes
I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better.
Glenda Jackson
It is better to stir up a question without deciding it, than to decide it without stirring it up.
Joseph Joubert
Sandwich every bit of criticism between two thick layers of praise. Mary Kay Ash
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you're the easiest person to fool.
Richard Feynman
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
Joaquin de Setanti
A closed mouth gathers no foot.
Author Unknown
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Chinese Proverb
A gentle answer turns away wrath, but harsh words stir up anger.
Proverbs 15:1
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Hugh Downs
A keen sense of humor helps us overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerate the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected and outlast the unbearable.
Billy Graham
A man may conquer a million men in battle but one who conquers himself is, indeed, the greatest of conquerors.
Buddha
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