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.
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.
We are what we do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.
How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.
Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
The lives of great men and women are miracles of patience and perseverance.
Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.
The real test is not whether you avoid failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it. . .
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, at whatever cost, must be attained.
If you have infinite patience and perseverance, success is bound to come. No mistake in that.
Just because you fail once doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything.
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous impatience.
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
And you very soon find out, if you have not found it out before, that patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Just put one foot in front of the other.
There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you, and there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself.
With time and patience, the mulberry leaf becomes satin.
When I began my humanitarian work, I understood that in order to gain credibility I needed patience, commitment and unwavering perseverance. I needed to ignore the skeptics.
Purity, patience and perseverance overcome all obstacles. All great things must of necessity be slow.
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
The two biggest things that translate from a pitching mound to hunting and fishing are patience and perseverance. When you're on the mound, you have to take the game one pitch at a time, regardless of the score, and that approach helps when I'm in the woods or out on the water as well.
Patience and perseverance at lengthAccomplish more than anger or brute strength.
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