Famous Quotes & Sayings

Napoleon Bonaparte

In time of revolution, with perseverance and courage, a soldier should think nothing impossible.

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.

Napoleon Bonaparte

All the great captains have performed vast achievements by conforming with the rules of art--by adjusting efforts to obstacles.

Ornette Coleman

It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.

Orison Swett Marden

Money, influence, and position are nothing compared with brains, principles, energy and perseverances.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

But the moment you turn a corner you see another straight stretch ahead and there comes some further challenge to your ambition.

Norman Vincent Peale

If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.

Norman Vincent Peale

Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles, they toughen and make strong.

Norman Vincent Peale

There is nothing in life so difficult that it cannot be overcome. This faith can move mountains. It can change people. It can change the world. You can survive all the great storms in your life

Norman Vincent Peale

One of the simplest things about all facts of life is that to get where you want to go, you must keep on keeping on.

Eric Ries

The grim reality is that most start-ups fail. Most new products are not successful. Yet the story of perseverance, creative genius, and hard work persists.

Eric Ries

You know how people always talk about how vision is the key to entrepreneurship and perseverance and really seeing what other people don't see? We can actually redeem a fair amount of that folk wisdom.

Epictetus

No great thing is created suddenly.

Patience and perseverance are necessary in autosuggestion, as well as in everything else.

Conscious auto-suggestion, made with confidence, faith, and perseverance realizes itself automatically, in all matters within reason.

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.

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.

John Irving

Keep passing the open windows.

John Hodgman

I think there are very few invisible musical instrument players out there who can claim the chops and sheer perseverance of Björn Türoque, the world's perennial second-place air guitar champion. Whoever this Dan Crane might be, he's captured the mad, seductive spirit of the arbitrary skill contest perfectly, and rocks it hard into the hot Finnish night. There is no number of umlauts that do this Jekyll and Hyde of air-rocking justice.