Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elaine Paige

My dad always told me that perseverance furthers. He was right.

Lou Gerstner

Watch the turtle. He only moves forward by sticking his neck out.

Josephus Daniels

Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.

John Lennon

Whatever gets you through the night

Jimmy Cliff

Rome was not built in a day Opposition will come your way But the harder the battle you see It's the sweeter the victory

Jim Rohn

The big challenge is to become all that you have the possibility of becoming. You cannot believe what it does to the human spirit to maximize your human potential and stretch yourself to the limit.

Jim Rohn

Character is a quality that embodies many important traits, such as integrity, courage, perseverance, confidence and wisdom. Unlike your fingerprints that you are born with and can't change, character is something that you create within yourself and must take responsibility for changing

George Lucas

If you want to be successful in a particular field of endeavor, I think perseverance is one of the key qualities.

Emily Post

Any child can be taught to be beautifully behaved with no effort greater than quiet patience and perseverance, whereas to break bad habits once they are acquired is a Herculean task.

Livy

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

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.

Joyce Brothers

Studies indicate that the one quality all successful people have is persistence.

Joseph Pilates

The lungs cannot be completely deflated at first without considerable effort. With perseverance, however, the desired results can be accomplished and with increasing power, gradually and progressively develop the lungs to their maximum capacity.

Josh Billings

Perseverance is king.

Karl Kraus

The discovery of the North Pole is one of those realities which could not be avoided. It is the wages which human perseverance pays itself when it thinks that something is taking too long. The world needed a discoverer of the North Pole, and in all areas of social activity, merit was less important here than opportunity.

Oveta Culp Hobby

Brotherhood doesn't come in a package. It is not a commodity to be taken down from the shelf with one hand - it is an accomplishment of soul-searching, prayer and perseverance.

Maria Mitchell

I had only ordinary capacity but extraordinary persistency.

Lynn Davies

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

Jim Valvano

Nothing has ever been accomplished in any walk of life without enthusiasm, without motivation, and without perseverance.

Maria Montessori

At a given moment a child becomes interested in a piece of work, showing it by the expression of his face, by his intense attention, by his perseverance in the same exercise. That child has set foot upon the road leading to discipline.

Edward de Bono

When the story of these times gets written, we want it to say that we did all we could, and it was more than anyone could have imagined.

John F. Kennedy

The basis of self-government and freedom requires the development of character and self-restraint and perseverance and the long view. And these are qualities which require many years of training and education.

Jonathan Adler

I've had a million setbacks along the way--from kiln fires burning down buildings to shipping disasters--that should have put me out of business, or at least left me lying in the fetal position on my bed for a few days. Luckily, though, I've never for one second thought that I had any other option than to just keep going.

Jon Lester

The two biggest things that translate from a pitching mound to hunting and fishing are patience and perseverance. When you're on the mound, you have to take the game one pitch at a time, regardless of the score, and that approach helps when I'm in the woods or out on the water as well.

Troy Polamalu

All of my Polynesian counterparts in the NFL with roots in American Samoa understand how the values embedded in our South Pacific culture - community, hard work, perseverance, respect - contribute directly to our success.