When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.
Success ... seems to be connected with action.
The world is full of educated derelicts.
There is nothing more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
How long should you try? Until.
In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance.
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
Success ... seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
"Failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
We are made to persist. that's how we find out who we are.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, ''Here comes number seventy-one!''
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.
A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
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