- "Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish."
~ John Quincy Adams - "Try not to do too many
things at once. Know what you want, the number one thing today and tomorrow. Persevere and get it done."
~ George Allen - "Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth."
~ Julie Andrews - "The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't."
~ Henry Ward Beecher - "Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there."
~ Josh Billings - "A jug fills drop by drop."
~ Buddhist Saying - "With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable."
~ Thomas Foxwell Buxton - "Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves."
~ Dale Carnegie - "Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."
~ Dale Carnegie - "It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."
~ Albert Einstein - "Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another."
~ Walter Elliott - "Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson - "The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson - "Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go."
~ William Feather - "The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed up in these two: common sense and perseverance."
~ Owen Feltham - "Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over."
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald - "Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did."
~ Newt Gingrich - "I'm proof that great things can happen to ordinary people if they work hard and never give up."
~ Orel Herhieser - "Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel."
~ Napoleon Hill - "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. - "We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough."
~ Helen Keller - "Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down."
~ Charles F. Kettering
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