How to Persevere!

"With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable."
Thomas Foxwell Buxton

"A door opens to me. I go in and am faced with a hundred closed doors."
Antonio Porchia

"Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
Samuel Johnson

"It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get up."
Vince Lombardi

"Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries."
James A. Michener

"Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity."
Louis Pasteur

"If you are going through hell, keep going."
Winston Churchill

"I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right."
Albert Einstein

"Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting."
Christopher Morley

"When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."
Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did."
Newt Gingrich

"He conquers who endures."
Persius

"Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before."
Jacob A. Riis

"I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all."
Ecclesiastes 9:11

"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another."
Walter Elliott

"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them."
George Bernard Shaw

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

"The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling."
Lucretius

"But the moment you turn a corner you see another straight stretch ahead and there comes some further challenge to your ambition."
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

"The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Saints are sinners who kept on going."
Robert Louis Stevenson

"If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking."
Buddhist Saying






“The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.” —Benjamin Disraeli