Famous Quotes & Sayings

David S. Rose

The entrepreneurial life is one of challenge, work, dedication, perseverance, exhilaration, agony, accomplishment, failure, sacrifice, control, powerlessness... but ultimately, extraordinary satisfaction.

David Sarnoff

The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.

Carolina Herrera

In fashion, you have to have perseverance. You have to do it again and again, but it's something that comes out of my heart, and I love it.

Charles Baudelaire

Nothing can be done except little by little.

Bob Riley

Perseverance is a virtue that cannot be understated.

Bernard Malamud

As long as a man stays alive he can't tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.

Bob Kerrey

A hero is someone who over and over does the right thing even though no one is there to witness it.

Bill Watterson

That's one of the remarkable things about life. It's never so bad that it can't get worse.

Bo Sanchez

Even if you don't see the results of your planting, just keep Planting your Love. Your Patience. Your Perseverance. Your Faith.

William Shakespeare

I am a kind of burr; I shall stick.

William Shakespeare

Perseverance... keeps honor bright: to have done, is to hang quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail in monumental mockery.

Carolyn Wells

One of the first principles of perseverance is to know when to stop persevering.

Yes, we can still do it. Nothing worth doing is easy.

Thomas Carlyle

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

Indira Gandhi

Opportunities are not offered. They must be wrested and worked for. And this calls for perseverance... and courage.

Jack Kornfield

Meditation takes discipline, just like learning how to play piano. If you want to learn how to play the piano, it takes more than a few minutes a day, once a while, here and there. If you really want to learn any important skill, whether it is playing piano or meditation, it grows with perseverance, patience, and systematic training.

Jack Canfield

I'm a big believer in growth. Life is not about achievement, it's about learning and growth, and developing qualities like compassion, patience, perseverance, love, and joy, and so forth. And so if that is the case, then I think our goals should include something which stretches us.

Hannah Storm

Always remember no matter how many people say no, all you need to find is one single person to say yes. Just one person.

Walter Raleigh

Whoso taketh in hand to govern a multitude, either by way of liberty or principality, and cannot assure himself of those persons that are enemies to that enterprise, doth frame a state of short perseverance.

Julia Cameron

I believe that I am very lucky to have close friends who are faithful. From my friends, I have learned the importance of perseverance.

When you want a thing deeply, earnestly and intensely, this feeling of desire reinforces your will and arouses in you the determination to work for the desired object. When you have a distinct purpose in view, your work becomes of absorbing interest. You bend your best powers to it; you give it concentrated attention; you think of little else than the realization of this purpose; your will is stimulated into unusual activity, and as a consequence you do your work with an increasing sense of power.

Gordon B. Hinckley

You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.

Geraldine Brooks

You go on. You set one foot in front of the other, and if a thin voice cries out, somewhere behind you, you pretend not to hear, and keep going.

Henry David Thoreau

Trench says a wild man is a willed man. Well, then, a man of will who does what he wills or wishes, a man of hope and of the future tense, for not only the obstinate is willed, but far more the constant and persevering. The obstinate man, properly speaking, is one who will not. The perseverance of the saints is positive willedness, not a mere passive willingness. The fates are wild, for they will; and the Almighty is wild above all, as fate is.

Henry David Thoreau

Nature is slow, but sure; she works no faster than need be; she is the tortoise that wins the race by her perseverance.

Jennifer Chiaverini

Elizabeth Keckley was a woman of remarkable strength, courage, perseverance, and dignity. She was exceptionally talented, but also very diligent and ambitious, and together those qualities enabled her to deliver herself from slavery and become a successful businesswoman.

Jean de La Fontaine

Patience and perseverance at lengthAccomplish more than anger or brute strength.

Jeremy Abbott

My personal story has always been about perseverance and always getting up when I fall. Maybe I'm not Olympic champion, but I can teach the world about that.

James C. Collins

It took Einstein ten years of groping through the fog to get the theory of special relativity, and he was a bright guy.

James C. Collins

You must maintain unwavering faith that you can and will prevail in the end, regardless of the difficulties, AND at the same time, have the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Don't follow in any footprints, make your own prints. Because, you are the future of tomorrow.

Jeff Bezos

If you are going to do large-scale invention, you have to be willing to do three things: You must be willing to fail; you have to be willing to think long term; and you have to be willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time.

George S. Patton

By perseverance, study, and eternal desire, any man can become great.