Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Allen

People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit.

George Allen

Quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to....

Lynda Obst

There is a fine line between perseverance and madness.

Luke Bryan

From my dad I learned to be good to people, to always be honest and straightforward. I learned hard work and perseverance.

Louis D. Brandeis

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.

Lord Byron

In commitment, we dash the hopes of a thousand potential selves.

Lord Chesterfield

Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.

Malcolm Forbes

Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.

Magic Johnson

Even when I went to the playground, I never picked the best players. I picked guys with less talent, but who were willing to work hard and had the desire to be great.

Major Taylor

I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves.

Mahatma Gandhi

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

Henri Nouwen

Real greatness is often humble, simple, and unobtrusive. It is not easy to trust ourselves and our actions without public affirmation. Some of the greatest works of art and the most important works of peace were created by people who had no need for the limelight. They knew that what they were doing was their call, and they did it with great patience, perseverance, and love.

Heather Bresch

As a leader, these attributes - confidence, perseverance, work ethic and good sense - are all things I look for in people. I also try to lead by example and create an environment where good questions and good ideas can come from anyone.

Hesiod

In front of excellence, the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it.

Herodotus

Some give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.

Lynn Davies

It's perseverance that's the key. It's persevering for long enough to achieve your potential.

John Lennon

Whatever gets you through the night

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Perseverance is a silent power that grows irresistibly greater with time.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Jimmy Carter

It would be naïve to think that peace and justice can be achieved easily. No set of rules or study of history will automatically resolve the problems ... However, with faith and perseverance, ... complex problems in the past have been resolved in our search for justice and peace.

George Cukor

When it goes wrong, you feel like cutting your throat, but you go on. You don't let anything get you down so much that it beats you or stops you.

George Crabbe

How often do we sigh for opportunities for doing good, whilst we neglect the openings of Providence in little things, which would frequently lead to the accomplishment of most important usefulness. Good is done by degrees. However small in proportion the benefit which follows individual attempts to do good, a great deal may thus be accomplished by perseverance, even in the midst of discouragements and disappointments.

George Crabbe

Fortunes are made, if I the facts may state-- Though poor myself, I know the fortunate: First, there's a knowledge of the way from whence Good fortune comes--and this is sterling sense: Then perseverance, never to decline The chase of riches till the prey is thine; And firmness never to be drawn away By any passion from that noble prey-- By love, ambition, study, travel, fame, Or the vain hope that lives upon a name.

Livy

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Ovid

Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Persevere even though Hell and destruction should yawn beneath your feet.

Peter McWilliams

To change rules that are already in place takes time, energy, perseverance and a lot of hard work. You only have so many of these assets at your disposal, so choose with care the rules you want to change.

Peter McWilliams

Happiness requires courage, stamina, persistence, fortitude, perseverance, bravery, boldness, valor, vigor, concentration, solidity, substance, backbone, grit, guts, moxie, nerve, pluck, resilience, spunk, tenacity, tolerance, will power, chutzpah, and a good thesaurus.

Plotinus

Never stop working on your statue until the divine glory of virtue shines out on you, until you see self-mastery enthroned upon its holy seat.

Plutarch

The drop hollows out the stone not by strength, but by constant falling.

Plutarch

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.

Pierce Brosnan

I think you make the best with what you've got, you know? Sometimes you have very little. And you just always try to rise to higher ground, because you're going to suffer one way or the other, so you just hope that you have strength and perseverance and good friends and faith, some kind of faith, to endure and move on to greener pastures.