Perseverance Quotes
We pray to you, O God ... for strength, determination, and willpower, to do instead of just to pray, to become instead of merely to wish.
Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall.
Wanting to win isn't enough. You have to go through a process to improve. That takes patience, perseverance, and intentionality.
Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success.
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
The Yankee: In acuteness and perseverance, he resembles the Scotch. In frugal neatness, he resembles the Dutch. But in truth, a Yankee is nothing else on earth but himself.
Whenever faced with a challenge, I dig deep within myself and summon my spiritual and physical forces. This gives me the focus, determination, perseverance, and support I need to succeed.
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
Success depends upon staying power. The reason for failure in most cases is lack of perseverance.
Everything that I've ever been able to accomplish in skating and in life has come out of adversity and perseverance.
That's one of the remarkable things about life. It's never so bad that it can't get worse.
Intelligence entails a strong mind, but genius entails a heart of a lion in tune with a strong mind.
Never rebel for the sake of rebelling, but always rebel for the sake of truth.
Life, Stormy says, is not about how fast you run or even with what degree of grace. It's about perseverance, about staying on your feet and slogging forward no matter what.
When emerging from humble beginnings, those around you tend to underestimate your authenticity because they knew you before you were 'somebody'.
People who say "it is impossible", should not interrupt those who are trying to make it possible.
At every crossroad, follow your dream. It is courageous to let your heart lead the way.
The surest method against scandal is to live it down by perseverance in well-doing, and by prayer to God that He would cure the distempered mind of those who traduce and injure us.
Enthusiasm, if fueled by inspiration and perseverance, travels with passion and its destination is excellence.
Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.
If you want to be successful in a particular field of endeavor, I think perseverance is one of the key qualities.
The Orenda is a powerful story from history, folklore and the imagination, based on the universality of human cruelty, superstition and perseverance. Wonderful writing.
We must be careful not to let our current appetites steal away any chance we might have for a future feast
I want to find people who have had to work hard and who have learned from their failures. Perseverance is no guarantee you’ll succeed, but without it, it’s almost guaranteed you won’t.
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
If you practice yoga every day with perseverance, you will be able to face the turmoil of life with steadiness and maturity.
It's good to remember that success may be just beyond the next failure, and you'll get there, not because you're destined to, but because you're determined to.
So Satan, whom repulse upon repulse Met ever, and to shameful silence brought, Yet gives not o'er though desperate of success.
If you are truly flexible and go until... there is really very little you can't accomplish in your lifetime.
If I hadn't had the talent, the networks wouldn't have televised my fights. No one has made me; I made myself. I paid my dues
The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never blanches, the thought that never wanders, the purpose that never wavers - these are the masters of victory.
What it is saying is that someone who was a world champion and who takes care of himself with a 17-year rest and applies the proper training techniques and perseverance could be successful.
Act out being alive, like a play. And after a while, a long while, it will be true.
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.