Quotes about persistence

The mere fact that things are not working well does not mean things cannot work well. Mind your lens check your understanding!

My dad has always been really helpful. He taught me that talent is a bonus, but persistence is what wins out.

Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.

Ambition is the path to success, persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

Success is all about persistence and doing the right thing for the long term.

Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory but rather of embracing common sense with uncommon levels of discipline and persistence.

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows.

Success is 3Ms: Your vision produces the Map your actions produce the Motion your persistence produces Monetary rewards.

Nothing in this 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.

You can always try another approach even change your subject when a scientific strategy or experiment fails.

The ordeal is not that truth does not win it is that it wins in the end.

We are semipermeable membranes. We can pick and choose which troubles are worthy of our attention. What sinks us can only do so with our permission a boat stays afloat until the water gets in.

You pray and nothing happens. You pray and nothing happens.You pray and nothing happens.You pray - and something is bound to happen!.

Optimism doesn't make you more persistent. Persistence makes you more optimistic.

The only way when your thirst for excellence is satisfied is when you take up the challenge to do a little more every day than you have already been doing every day!

No age of life is inglorious. Youth has its merits, but living to a ripe old age is the true statement of value. Aging is the road that we take to discern our character. Fame and fortune can elude us, but character is immortal. We must encounter a sufficient variety of experiences including both failures and accomplishments in order to gain nobility of character.

The secret of success is the strength to overcome any obstacle.

Keep going. You're a mess and you're happy.

In order to reach our goals we sometimes need a plan B. Other times we go all the way through to plan Z.

Today is a BRAND NEW day—a perfectly good reason to get up and start over. Never give up.

To persist with a goal, you must treasure the dream more than the costs of sacrifice to attain it.

When teachers doubt your potential, show them how wrong they truly are.

Any fight in life whether it is physical, mental, moral, or spiritual, how long you stay in the fight is highly dependent on your growth.

Persistence is the most traveled path to success.

It is in building the best of our abilities that we ultimately destroy the worst of our liabilities.

WHO YOU CAN BE, WILL COME TO YOU THROUGH CONSISTENT PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT.

Be patient with yourself.The journey of life requires alot of patient, persistence and perseverance.

So long as the man with ambition is a failure, the world will tell him to let go of his ideal; but when his ambition is realized, the world will praise him for the persistence and the determination that he manifested during his dark hours, and everybody will point to his life as an example for coming generations. This is invariably the rule. Therefore pay no attention to what the world says when you are down. Be determined to get up, to reach the highest goal you have in view, and you will.

Tenacity bores failure.

If you fail at something, it means you have not mastered the art. With persistence practice, you will be master and eventually succeed.

The only people capable of handling success are those who have learned to handle failures w/o taking their eyes off the prize.

What matters more than where you are is the direction you are heading.

Since when is failure more appealing? Never give up.

A warm sunny evening, the plash and gurgle of the waves in the rock pools, the rush of the cold gin. I thought for the first time of my novel, abandoned, all these years, and I came up, unprompted, with the perfect title. Octet. Octet by Logan Mountstuart. Perhaps I will surprise them all, yet.

You haven't failed until you stop trying.

I tried and failed. I tried again and again and succeeded.[Epitaph from Gail Borden's gravestone.]

Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. The desire and ability to press on has and always will solve the problems of the human race and divide those who achieve from those who might have been.

A series of failures may culminate in the best possible result.

Patience can be bitter but her fruit is always sweet.

Life isn't as magical here, and you're not the only one who feels like you don't belong, or that it's better somewhere else. But there ARE things worth living for. And the best part is you never know what's going to happen next.

In traveling, there is nothing like dissecting people's statements, which are usually colored by their estimate of the powers or likings of the person spoken to, making all reasonable inquiries, and then pertinaciously but quietly carrying out one's own plans.

You may fall many times, but you must keep going.

With persistence and never-ending improvements you can be the best.

Curiosity, boldness, and persistence help you to be a success.

Your thoughts can change your actions and your actions can change your thoughts.

Whatever you do in your life, always go the distance.

An aspirational diet will have you dreaming of success; but it’s the attachment of expectations and tangible goals that feeds the desire, persistence, and fortitude required to make the win.

Arise in great might and chase your dreams.

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Change for the better... Let your change be purposeful and determined. Never repeat steps that always make you fail. Never change a step that brings you closer to excellence! You got to make a change!

I remember what I must do, even if it makes me the villain of my own story

Patience is productive only when aligned and doggedly chasing of objectives is pursued with consistence and persistence

Love never fails. Character never quits. And with patience and persistence, dreams do come true

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.

Waiting is a form of passive persistence.

Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

Vision and persistence will take you to the top of the leadership mountain, but only humility will keep you there.

Men dressed in an embroidery of excuses are not fit to enter the colorful chamber of champions

NEVER give up on something that you can't go a day without thinking about.

Simply giving something ‘a shot’ is not giving something our ‘best,’ for our best is made up of as many ‘shots’ as it takes in order to be our best.

You can break through every barrier with persistent effort.

Persistence separates those who want it more.

Be patient, persistent and above all, believe.

We are all given equal opportunity to learn new things. We just have to be determined and persistent.

Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time.

You can either follow your dreams with determination and persistence until they become true, or you can be blown by the winds of fate - were anything can happen.

Who told you it was too late? And more importantly, why did you choose to believe them?

The P's of life:Passion, Persistence, Perseverance.

The grace and blessing of God is sufficient to carry us through the storms of life. With persistence and determination, victory awaits us at end of the journey.

Failures are part of life lessons.Keep trying no matter how many times you fail. You will one day succeed.

Never let those who say it can't be done obstruct you from pursuing your goals.

Success is like sausage, you'd be surprised what goes into it.

For a writer, I'm not sure that feeling of knowing you've just written something good and strong can be trumped. Not because it means I did something right. But because it proves how many wrongs I pushed through to get there.

I don't stop when I am tired, I stop when I am done

Licking your wounds will not stop the bleeding, but applying pressure will.

There are tomorrows on their way worth the struggles of today. Never give up.

Persistence and determination are always rewarded.

I stretched out on the bed and slept. It was twilight when I awakened and turned on the light. I felt better, no longer tired. I went to the typewriter and sat before it. My thought was to write a sentence, a single perfect sentence. If I could write one good sentence I could write two and if I could write two I could write three, and if I could write three I could write forever. But suppose I failed? Suppose I had lost all of my beautiful talent? Suppose it had burned up in the fire of Biff New

It takes time, patience, productivity and persistence to 'pop the oil'; just keep digging. Worthy investments take time to show positive returns.

Inspiration works on the same sense as humans, quite generous yet impatient. When it calls, better respond there and then or it moves shop.

Don’t quit. It’s very easy to quit during the first 10 years. Nobody cares whether you write or not, and it’s very hard to write when nobody cares one way or the other. You can’t get fired if you don’t write, and most of the time you don’t get rewarded if you do. But don’t quit.

God's heart…is not that we escape our lot, but that we learn to thrive in the midst of it.

Every face of life demands endurance.

Without overcoming the obstacles on the path, how can you get to the top of the mountain?

No matter where you once were, no matter how dark your storm, God doesn't want you to remain there. Overcoming may not be easy, but it's possible when you ask your Father to battle for you.

MAKE SUCCESS HAPPENSuccess is like a camera. Only focus on what is most important. Ignore trivial details. Concentrate on your main goal image for success. Develop your pictures. If they don't turn out, don't give up. Take more shots at it. Always be persistent. Focus on making success clearly happen.

life has a funny way of testing you to see if you really want, what you say you want.

In the game of football, you least complain, shout, talk or blame your opponents or the referee continuously throughout the game just because of your opponents opposition, strength or antics to ensure that you lose focus and lose the game; winning the game is your true aim. Such is life! You must do all you ought to do to score your goals notwithstanding the oppositions and how life will play the game of life with you! Be a goal getter!

Knowing that one thing you want is a great step. Sure, whether you prefer or not, you'll get offers, and many will seem just like that one thing you want.

Knowing that one thing you want is a great step. Sure, whether you prefer or not, you'll get offers, and many will seem that one thing you want.

Focus on the mission.

The cost you will pay to achieve the goal is worthwhile.

When your efforts run in the face of conventional wisdom and accepted mastery, persistence can look like madness. If you succeed in the end, this extreme originality reformulates into a new level of mastery, sometimes even genius; if you fail in the end, you remain a madman in the eyes of others, and maybe even yourself. When you are in the midst of the journey…there’s really no way of knowing which one you are.” (p.129)

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Patience, my friend; Once again, I say, Patience. In an era 'plagued' with speed, doggedness of character and drudgery of persistence is the only guarantee to mastery.

The brand building process is a marathon that takes time with patience, persistence, consistence, and authenticity to deliver on your unique promise of value

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.