Quotes about Perseverance

Study the lives of all people who achieve outstanding success in any calling and observe, with profit, that their success is usually in exact ratio to their experiences of defeat before succeeding.

I have also discovered that there comes with every experience of temporary defeat, and every failure and every form of adversity, the seed of an equivalent benefit.

Finally, he lifted his head slowly, got up and walked to the door. Then he turned around, came back, laid his hand on my shoulder and said, 'My boy, you will need much courage if you remain steadfast in carrying out your purpose in life. But remember, when difficulties overtake you, the common people have common sense. Adversity will develop it.

You have been disappointed, you have undergone defeat during the depression, you have felt the great heart within you crushed until it bled. Take courage, for these experiences have tempered the spiritual metal of which you are made-they are assets of incomparable value.

No man is ever whipped, until he quits— in his own mind.

one of the tricks of opportunity. It has a sly habit of slipping in by the back door, and often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

The turning point in the lives of those who succeed, usually comes at the moment of some crisis, through which they are introduced to their "other selves.

I stopped three feet from gold, but I will never stop because men say 'no' when I ask them to buy insurance.

No man is ever whipped, until he QUITS

Do not expect troubles as they have a tendency not to disappoint.

physical stamina

To become successful you must be a person of action. Merely to "know" is not sufficient. It is necessary both to know and do. Enthusiasm is the mainspring of the mind which urges one to put knowledge into action.