Quotes about Perseverance

I will never surrender to discouragement or despair no matter what seeming obstacles may confront me.

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

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.

Don't avoid paying the immediate price of change—if you do, you will pay the ultimate price of never improving.

Successful people do daily what unsuccessful people do only occasionally. The bookends of success are beginning well and ending well. What is between those bookends? Consistency. If you want to become the leader you have the potential to be, you need to pay the price of self-discipline.

Playwright George Bernard Shaw asserted, A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. To overcome fear and break the cycle, you have to be willing to recognize that you will spend much of your life making mistakes.

Learn to view your problems as temporary stumbling blocks.

It doesn't matter what job you do or what position you obtain; you will have limits. That's just the way life is.

Life involves struggle.

Shakespeare said, "He is not worthy of the honeycomb that shuns the hive because the bees have stings." Don't let your fear keep you from taking small steps in your development. You never know where they might lead.

If everyone doesn't pay the price to win, then everyone will pay the price by losing.

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.