Perseverance Quotes
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When I began my humanitarian work, I understood that in order to gain credibility I needed patience, commitment and unwavering perseverance. I needed to ignore the skeptics.
-- Bianca Jagger
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
-- William James
"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on."
-- Thomas Jefferson* To every obstacle oppose patience, perseverance and soothing language.
-- Thomas JeffersonAcknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
-- Michael Johnson“Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance”
-- Samuel Johnson"I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying."
-- Michael Jordan (1963-) U.S. basketball player"Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it or work around it."
-- Michael Jordan (1963-) U.S. basketball player"Don't follow in any footprints, make your own prints. Because, you are the future of tomorrow."
-- Jackie Joyner-Kersee" Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure, Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing."
-- H. Stanley Judd“Try and fail, but don't fail to try.”
-- Stephen Kaggwa
* "We can do anything we want as long as we stick to it long enough."
-- Helen KellerDefeat is simply a signal to press onward.
-- Helen KellerAlthough the world is very full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
-- Helen Keller
Champions keep playing until they get it right.
-- Billie Jean King
* If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr
“We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.”
-- Martin Luther King, JrOpportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
-- Ann Landers“For all things difficult to acquire, the intelligent man works with perseverance.”
-- Lao Tzu“The flower that follows the sun does so even in cloudy days”
-- Robert Leighton
“My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.”
-- Abraham Lincoln* The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
-- Abraham LincolnI will prepare and some day my chance will come.
-- Abraham LincolnAlways bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln“Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.”
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow“Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.”
-- Douglas MacArthur
* “It always seems impossible until its done.”
-- Nelson Mandela
There is genius in persistence. It conquers all opposers. It gives confidence. It annihilates obstacles. Everybody believes in a determined man. People know that when he undertakes a thing, the battle is half won, for his rule is to accomplish whatever he sets out to do.
-- Orison Swett Marden"We conquer by continuing."
-- George Matheson"A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose - a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve."
-- John Maxwell"He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.”
-- MenanderPlan your progress carefully; hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power.
-- Paul J. MeyerEnglish author and humorist "Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day."
-- A.A. Milne (1882-1956), (Alan Alexander Milne)The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
-- Thomas S. MonsonBig shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
-- Christopher MorleyDon't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.
-- Earl Nightingale
Perseverance Quotes
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