Quotes about Perseverance

Tenacious people don't rely on luck, fate, or destiny for their success. And when conditions become difficult, they keep working.

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

Luck marches with those who give their very best.

There is no better test of character than a man's treatment of difficulties. The coward shuns them; the lazy man tries to go around them; the idler dawdles in front of them, waiting like Micawber for something to turn up or some miracle to remove them; the baby-man waits for some friend to lift him over them ; but the manly man surmounts them.

But every time you yield to the temptation, the easier it becomes to yield again and the more difficult it becomes to resist the next time.

his mistake in having stopped only three feet from gold, "but," he said, "that experience was a blessing in disguise. It taught me to keep on keeping on, no matter how hard the going may be, a lesson I needed to learn before I could succeed in anything.

Beethoven was deaf, Milton was blind, but their names will last as long as time endures, because they dreamed and translated their dreams into organized thought.

When Divine Intelligence wants a great man or woman to render some needed service in the world, the fortunate one is tested out through some form of FAILURE. If you are undergoing what you believe to be failure, have patience; you may be passing through your testing time.

The person who forms the habit of directing his attention to the important facts out of which he is constructing his Temple of Success, thereby provides himself with a power which may be likened to a triphammer which strikes a ten-ton blow as compared to a tack-hammer which strikes a one-pound blow!

Henry Ford has been repeatedly mentioned, because he is an astounding example of what a man with a mind of his own, and a will to control it, can accomplish.

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

The battle is all over except the shouting when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.