Quotes about Persistence
Author Kenneth Blanchard says, "There's a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you do it only when it's convenient. When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results." That's what leaders do. They commit and follow through.
— John Maxwell
1. Cop-outs. People who have no goals and do not commit. 2. Holdouts. People who don't know if they can reach their goals, so they're afraid to commit. 3. Dropouts. People who start toward a goal but quit when the going gets tough. 4. All-outs. People who set goals, commit to them, and pay the price to reach.
— John Maxwell
Before you get out of bed every morning, say 'do it now' fifty times. At the end of the day before you go to sleep, the last thing you should do is say 'do it now' fifty times.
— John Maxwell
The biggest gap between failure and success is the distance between I should and I did.
— John Maxwell
I will never surrender to discouragement or despair no matter what seeming obstacles may confront me.
— John Maxwell
When it comes to the thing you love to do, the thing you were made to do, aim high. The odds matter little. Whether you fall down along the way matters little.
— John Maxwell
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.
— John Maxwell
Most people tend to underestimate the time it takes to achieve something of value, but to be successful, you have to be willing to pay your dues. James Watt spent twenty years laboring to perfect his steam engine. William Harvey labored night and day for eight years to prove how blood circulated in the human body. And it took another twenty-five years for the medical profession to acknowledge he was right.
— John Maxwell
You have to experience a lot of failure to achieve success. And the more failure you go through, the higher your success.
— John Maxwell
The world tries to talk us out of working hard.
— John Maxwell
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
— John Maxwell
Moving uphill requires intentionality, energy, determination, hard work, and consistency.
— John Maxwell