Quotes about Persistence

I gave up soccer. But I don't think I can ever stop running.

The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

You show me anybody that's great in anything they do, I'll show you somebody that's persevered, demonstrated that mental toughness to overcome some obstacles and adversity.

A man is always right to pursue the thing he loves.No matter even if it kills him?I think so. Yes. No matter what.

In tackling a difficult book for the first time, read it through without ever stopping to look up or ponder the things you do not understand right away.

It is not the stretching that tires you, but the frustration of stretching unsuccessfully because you lack the skill to stretch effectively.

Desire is craving enough to sacrifice for

If you give up before your goal has been reached, you are a quitter. A quitter never wins and a winner never quits. Lift this sentence out, write it on a piece of paper in letters an inch high, and place it where you will see it every night before you go to sleep, and every morning before you go to work

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve regardless of how many times you may have failed in the past or how lofty your aims and hopes may be.

The capacity to surmount failure without being discouraged is the chief asset of every person who attains outstanding success in any calling.

Failure is man-made circumstance. It is never real until accepted by man as permanent.

The majority of people are ready to throw their aims and purposes overboard, and give up at the first sign of opposition or misfortune. A few carry on DESPITE all opposition, until they attain their goal. These few are the Fords, Carnegies, Rockefellers, and Edisons. There may be no heroic connotation to the word persistence, but the quality is to the character of man what carbon is to steel.