Perseverance Quotes

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

I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It's a voice of pain and victory.

Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health.

What everyone in the astronaut corps shares in common is not gender or ethnic background, but motivation, perseverance, and desire - the desire to participate in a voyage of discovery.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears.

There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.

In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.

My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you've got to be a filmmaker.

Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self-esteem that is priceless.

The stubbornness I had as a child has been transmitted into perseverance. I can let go but I don't give up. I don't beat myself up about negative things.

We, of our time, have played our part in the perseverance, and we have pledged ourselves to the dead generations who have preserved intact for us this glorious heritage, that we, too, will strive to be faithful to the end, and pass on this tradition unblemished.

But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character, leadership, creativity, perseverance.

Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.

I am very proud of my mom and consider her the most courageous woman I know. With perseverance, sacrifice and hard work, she raised a family of Olympic athletes and gave us the tools and the spirit to succeed. That is something that my brothers and I will always be thankful for.

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.

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

I was never specifically associated with a part, I didn't have tons of money, I wasn't conventionally tall or handsome, so you know the things that were available to me were hard work and perseverance.

Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.

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

Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

I need a teacher quite as much as Helen. I know the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life, if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it.

A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.

It's perseverance that's the key. It's persevering for long enough to achieve your potential.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.