Quotes about Perseverance

There has never been a statue erected to the memory of someone who left well enough alone.

The only person who avoids failure altogether is the person who never leaves her driveway. So the real issue is not whether you're going to fail. It's whether you're going to fail successfully (profiting from your failure).

Until my practice period was completed, I deliberately neglected everything else. That program of planned neglect, I believe, accounts for my success.

Most people don't know this, but it's easier to go from failure to success than from excuses to success.

Livingstone replied, "If you have men who will come only if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come even if there is no road at all." That's what top leaders want from the people working for them: they want individuals who are willing to do what others won't.

But here's the good news: maintaining the right attitude is easier than regaining the right attitude.

That no matter how often someone says you can't do something, by simply working harder and trying, you can prove them wrong and actually change your circumstance. Change your thinking and it will change your life.

Any time you make a commitment to something, it will be tested. If something is worth doing, I will commit myself to carrying it through.

Get a new definition of failure. Regard it as the price you pay for progress. If you can do that, you will put yourself in a much better position to fail forward.

What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Motion causes friction. Make the commitment early!

If you really want to achieve your dreams—I mean really achieve them, not just daydream or talk about them—you've got to get out there and fail. Fail early, fail often, but always fail forward. Turn your mistakes into stepping-stones for success.