Best 1630 quotes in «perseverance quotes» category

'I can't' are two words that have never been in my vocabulary. I believe in me more than anything in this world.

I didn't have anybody, really, no foundation in life, so I had to make my own way. Always, from the start. I had to go out in the world and become strong, to discover my mission in life.

I expect to maintain this contest until successful, or till I die, or am conquered, or my term expires, or Congress or the country forsakes me.

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.

If America is the land of opportunity, a country where perseverance and hard work is rewarded by recognition, then an illegal harbors the opposite ambitions. His greatest reward us anonymity, invisibility. Aided and abetted by market forces and the laws of supply and demand, he hones his skill to stand up but make sure he's never counted.

If a man has any brains at all, let him hold on to his calling, and, in the grand sweep of things, his turn will come at last.

If at first you don't succeed, try hard work.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.

If at first you don't succeed, try management.

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

If I had the perspective of the whole, perhaps I'd see it? That which seems evil, is it a cloud to bring rain, to bring a greater good to the whole of the world? Who would ever know the greater graces of comfort and perseverance, mercy and forgiveness, patience and courage, if no shadows fell over a life?

If men of wisdom and knowledge, of moderation and temperance, of patience, fortitude and perseverance, of sobriety and true republican simplicity of manners, of zeal for the honour of the Supreme Being and the welfare of the commonwealth; if men possessed of these other excellent qualities are chosen to fill the seats of government, we may expect that our affairs will rest on a solid and permanent foundation.

If it takes a hundred years, it will be a pity, but I will not cease to work for it as long as I live.

If you don't wake up with something in your stomach every day that makes you think, "I want to make this movie," it'll never get made.

If one concentrates on one thing and does not get away from it ... he will possess strong, moving power.

If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation, we shall find manifest examples of premeditation, perseverance, resolution, and consumate artifice, in order to effect their purpose.

If we want to cultivate hopefulness, we have to be willing to be flexible and demonstrate perseverance. Not every goal will look and feel the same. Tolerance for disappointment, determination, and a belief in self are the heart of hope.

If you can’t run, walk; if you can’t walk, crawl, but keep moving forward!

If you don't enjoy it, then putting in the long hours is going to take their toll.

If there is one doctrine I have preached more than another, it is the doctrine of the Perseverance of the Saints even to the end.

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.

If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already.

If you rest, you rust.

If you really want something, and really work hard, and take advantage of opportunities, and never give up, you will find a way.. Follow your Dreams.

If you persevere, stick with it, wok at it, you have a real opportunity to achieve. If you do your best and keep a true compass, you'll get there.

If you put in the work, put in the time, put in the effort, you're going to reap the benefits.

I have no Napoleonic dream. I'm just hard-working and pragmatic.

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.

I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying.

If you want to be successful in a particular field of endeavor, I think perseverance is one of the key qualities.

I have seen your despatch expressing your unwillingness to break your hold where you are. Neither am I willing. Hold on with a bull-dog gripe, and chew & choke, as much as possible.

I have to believe in the possibility of peace, because the alternative is to accept the inevitability of continual war, and of always living in fear. It doesn't have to be that way. However, there are no simple solutions, and I am not the possessor of a magic formula for peace. All I can say is that for peace to succeed it requires perseverance, patience, humility, compromise, and commitment, from all parties.

Importunity is a condition of prayer. We are to press the matter, not with vain repetitions, but with urgent repetitions. We repeat, not to count the times, but to gain the prayer. We cannot quit praying because heart and soul are in it. We pray "with all perseverance." We hang to our prayers because by them we live. We press our pleas because we must have them, or die.

I lived in lower-income neighborhoods in the inner city. Across the street were dark parts of the world. I've experienced the gamut, from third world to inner city to my parents working their way out of being secretaries and janitors to professors and real-estate people. They've shown me a path of perseverance and hard work in a peaceable way.

I have worked in the homes of many successful people and have seen firsthand that everyone fails in life, but failure can be a gift if you don't give up and are willing to learn, improve, and grow because of it.  You see, failure often serves as a defining moment, a crossroads on the journey of your life.  It gives you a test designed to measure your courage, perseverance, commitment, and a dedication.  Are you a pretender who gives up after a little adversity or a contender who keeps getting up after getting knocked down?

I'll admit that it's not easy to get an agent, but becoming successful in anything requires perseverance.

I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance.

Imagination, devotion, perseverance, together with divine grace, will assure your success.

I met Jay Jonhson. I won him the way poor people occasionally win the lottery: Shameless perseverance and embarrassingly dumb luck, and every time I see one of those sly, toothless, beaten-down souls on TV holding a winning ticket, I think, Go, team.

I'm learning new levels of patience, perseverance and desire.

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

I'm unapologetic not because I'm strong-willed or overconfident, I'm unapologetic because this is it; this is my life. There is nothing I can do, no one I can please. I am a person with a strong sense of being, that's all.

In all their wars against the French they [the Americans] never showed such conduct, attention and perseverance as they do now.

In every human endeavor, persistence is everything.

I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

In front of excellence, the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it.

Infinite patience, infinite purity, and infinite perseverance are the secret of success in a good cause.

In His infinite wisdom, God allows trials in order to develop perseverance in us and to cause us to fix our hopes on the glory that is yet to be revealed... Our faith and perseverance can grow only under the pain of trial.

In life, it's not the genetic guy who wins or the guy with the most potential who wins; it's the person with the greatest perseverance who wins. Always be willing to get up and go at it again and again. That's the guy who has his hands raised later in life. That's the guy you guys need to be.

In the end, it's all about perseverance.