Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement

When I thought I couldn't go on, I forced myself to keep going.

My success is based on persistence, not luck

Estee Lauder

We keep moving forward, opening new doors and doing new things.

Our curiosity keeps taking us down new paths

Walt Disney

Have the dogged determination to follow through to achieve your goal;

regardless of circumstances or whatever other people say, think, or do

Paul Meyer

Being defeated is often a temporary condition.

Giving up is what makes it permanent

Marilyn vos Savant

My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match.

However down I am, I fight until the last ball.

My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many

so-called irretrievable defeats into victories

Bjorn Borg

Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don't look back at it too long.

Mistakes are life's way of teaching you. Your capacity for occasional blunders is inseparable

from your capacity to reach your goals. No one wins them all, and your failures,

when they happen, are just part of your growth. Shake off your blunders.

How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come

Og Mandino

Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day

what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer the goal

Elbert Hubbard

Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you plan to stop peddling

Claude Pepper

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen,

but give us the determination to make the right things happen

Peter Marshall

Focus on the solution, not the problem

Walter Anderson

The majority of people meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in

creating new plans to take the place of those which fail

Napoleon Hill

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure

Edward Eggleston

Champions know there are no shortcuts to the top.

They climb the mountain one step at a time

Judi Adler

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end.

It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing;

it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it

Lord Acton

If you make the unconditional commitment to reach your most important goals,

if the strength of your decision is sufficient, you will find the way and the power to achieve your goals

Robert Conklin

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence,

is the quality that most frequently makes for success

Dale Carnegie

Greatness is not where we stand, but in what direction we are moving.

We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it but sail we must,

and not drift, nor lie at anchor

Oliver Wendall Holmes

People do not lack strength; they lack will

Victor Hugo

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate that can circumvent or hinder

or control the firm resolve of a determined soul

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Give yourself an even greater challenge than the one you are trying to master

and you will develop the powers necessary to overcome the original difficulty

William J. Bennett

Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional

Roger Crawford

Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over

F. Scott Fitzgerald

It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance,

sweeps away all obstacles

Claude M. Bristol

All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination

Earl Nightingale

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect

before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish

John Quincy Adams

Obstacles don't have to stop you.

If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up.

Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it

Michael Jordan

Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least

expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down

Charles F. Kettering

You can surmount the obstacles in your path if you are determined, courageous and

hard-working. Never be faint-hearted. Be resolute, but never bitter

Ralph J. Bunche

Strive for perfection in everything

Take the best that exists and make it better

If it doesn't exist, create it

Accept nothing nearly right or good enough

Henry Royce

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success

Napoleon Hill

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman,

before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air

John Quincy Adams

The last dejected effort often becomes the winning stroke

W.J. Cameron

If your plan isn't working, adjust your plan. Never give up

Matt Martin

It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop

Confucius

In each of us are places where we have never gone.

Only by pressing the limits do you ever find them

Dr. Joyce Brothers

A day will never be anymore than what you make of it. Practice being a doer!

Josh S. Hinds

Determination is the wake-up call to the human will

Tony Robbins

Inspiration grows into full-scale creation through persistence and imagination

Carol Lloyd

Have the dogged determination to follow through to achieve your goal;

regardless of circumstances or whatever other people say, think, or do

Paul Meyer

If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something

Franklin D. Roosevelt

As you work toward your goal, anxiously anticipating the light at the end of

the tunnel, don't forget to notice the light that shines upon you today

Michelle C. Ustaszeski

Act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done by hesitation

Thomas Henry Huxley

While no road is ever straight, dedication and persistence

will always lead you to your dreams

Arte Moreno

A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence

Jim Watkins

It's always too soon to quit

Norman Vincent Peale

Victory belongs to the most persevering

Napoleon Bonaparte

Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth

Julie Andrews

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent

Marilyn vos Savant

Inspiration grows into full-scale creation through persistence and imagination

Carol Lloyd

Continuous effort not strength or intelligence is the key to unlocking our potential

Sir Winston Churchill

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that?

We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.

We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained

Marie Curie

As you go along your road in life, you will, if you aim high enough, also meet resistance ...

but no matter how tough the opposition may seem, have courage still and persevere

Madeleine Albright

Lots of people limit their possibilities by giving up easily

Never tell yourself this is too much for me

It's no use. I can't go on. If you do you're licked, and by your own thinking too

Keep believing and keep on keeping on

Norman Vincent Peale

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another

Walter Elliot

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems

Lee Iacocca

There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks

David Lloyd George

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them.

You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have

Norman Vincent Peale

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second

William James

Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year,

but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place.

If I quit, however, it lasts forever

Lance Armstrong

What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists and it becomes available

only when you are in that state of mind in which you know exactly what

you want and are fully determined not to quit until you get it

Alexander Graham Bell

With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable

Thomas Foxwell Buxton

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses

the only strength which can overcome adversity

Albert Schweitzer

The race goes not always to the swift ... but to those who keep on running

Author Unknown

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get

tired of doing the hard work you already did

Newt Gingrich

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from

life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible

Richard M. DeVos

It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop

B.C. Forbes

A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere

and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles

Christopher Reeve

I'm very determined and stubborn. There's a desire in me that makes me want to

do more and more, and to do it right. Each one of us has a fire in our heart

for something. It's our goal in life to find it and to keep it lit

Mary Lou Retton

If you do what you ought to do, when you ought to do it, the time will come when

you can do the what you want to do, when you want to do it

Zig Ziglar

Energy and persistence conquer all things

Benjamin Franklin

Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve.

He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind

Leonardo da Vinci

Everyone's got it in him, if he'll only make up his mind and stick at it.

None of us is born with a stop-valve on his powers or with a set limit to his capacities.

There's no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us

Charles M. Schwab

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination

Karl von Clausewitz

Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.'

Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have

at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along

Napoleon Hill

The rock that is an obstacle in the path of one person becomes a stepping

stone in the path of another

Author Unknown

If you consistently do the best you can, with integrity,

you will regret less and move forward with greater ease

Brian Koslow

The test of character is not persistence when you expect a light at the end of the tunnel.

The true test is performance and persistence when you see no light coming

James A. Ray

It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down

all resistance and sweeps away all obstacles

Claude M. Bristol

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another

Walter Elliott

Nothing ever comes to one that is worth having except as a result of hard work

Booker T. Washington

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal.

My strength lies solely in my tenacity

Louis Pasteur

Either I will find a way, or I will make one

Philip Sidney

The majority of people meet with failure because they lack the persistence

to create new plans to take the place of failed plans

Mark Victor Hansen

There is genius in persistence. It conquers all opposers. It gives confidence.

It annihilates obstacles. Everybody believes in a determined man.

People know that when he undertakes a thing,

the battle is half won, for his rule is to accomplish whatever he sets out to do

Orison Swett Marden

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman,

before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air

John Quincy Adams

I believe that persistent effort, supported by a character-based foundation,

will enable you to get more of the things money will buy

and all of the things money won't buy

Zig Ziglar

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.

Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.

Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.

Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent

Calvin Coolidge

The most essential factor is persistence, the determination never to allow your energy

or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come

James Whitcomb Riley