Perseverance Quotes - page 2

Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do. (Pelé)
Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure. View quote
George Eliot
Perseverance is patience concentrated. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Character, courage, industry and perseverance are the four pillars on which the whole edifice of human life can be built and failure is a word unknown to me. View quote
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire. View quote
William Godwin
Whoso taketh in hand to govern a multitude, either by way of liberty or principality, and cannot assure himself of those persons that are enemies to that enterprise, doth frame a state of short perseverance. View quote
Walter Raleigh
Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent. View quote
William Cobbett
I'll admit that it's not easy to get an agent, but becoming successful in anything requires perseverance. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
My dad always told me that perseverance furthers. He was right. View quote
Elaine Paige
All the information you need is available to you to have a successful career in music, if you're paying attention, and not closed off to anything. Remember, Perseverance is King. (Bradley Joseph)
Sober perseverance is more effective than enthusiastic emotions, which are all too capable of being transferred, with little difficulty, to something different each day. View quote
Václav Havel
Desire, to know why, and how, CURIOSITY; such as is in no living creature but Man; so that Man is distinguished, not only by his Reason; but also by this singular Passion from other Animals; in whom the appetite of food, and other pleasures of Sense, by predominance, take away the care of knowing causes; which is a Lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of Knowledge, exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal Pleasure. View quote
Thomas Hobbes
In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance. View quote
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
There is something at work in my soul which I do not understand. I am practically industrious - painstaking, a workman to execute with perseverance and labour - but besides this there is a love for the marvellous, a belief in the marvellous, intertwined in all my projects, which hurries me out of the common pathways of men, even to the wild sea and unvisited regions I am about to explore. View quote
Mary Shelley
Woman has suffered for eons, and that has given her infinite patience and infinite perseverance. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will. "I will drink the ocean", says the persevering soul; "at my will mountains will crumble up." Have that sort of energy, that sort of will; work hard, and you will reach the goal. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
The finest virtues can become deformed with age. The precise mind becomes finicky; the thrifty man, miserly; the cautious man, timorous; the man of imagination, fanciful. Even perseverance ends up in a sort of stupidity. Just as, on the other hand, being too willing to understand too many opinions, too diverse ways of seeing, constancy is lost and the mind goes astray in a restless fickleness. View quote
André Gide
A natural talent is required; for, when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place, which the student must try to appropriate to himself by reflection, becoming an early pupil in a place well adapted for instruction. He must also bring to the task a love of labor and perseverance, so that the instruction taking root may bring forth proper and abundant fruits. View quote
Hippocrates
Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority. View quote
Vince Lombardi
Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness and respect for authority is the price that each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile. (Vince Lombardi)
In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Poverty doesn't give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverance. No, poverty only teaches you how to be poor. View quote
Sherman Alexie
Prison itself is a tremendous education in the need for patience and perseverance. It is above all a test of one's commitment. View quote
Nelson Mandela
With hearts fortified with these animating reflections, we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare that, exerting the utmost energy of those powers, which our beneficent Creator hath graciously bestowed upon us, the arms we have been compelled by our enemies to assume, we will, in defiance of every hazard, with unabating firmness and perseverance employ for the preservation of our liberties; being with one mind resolved to die freemen rather than to live as slaves. View quote
John Dickinson (delegate)