Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ovid

Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Persevere even though Hell and destruction should yawn beneath your feet.

John Irving

Keep passing the open windows.

John Hodgman

I think there are very few invisible musical instrument players out there who can claim the chops and sheer perseverance of Björn Türoque, the world's perennial second-place air guitar champion. Whoever this Dan Crane might be, he's captured the mad, seductive spirit of the arbitrary skill contest perfectly, and rocks it hard into the hot Finnish night. There is no number of umlauts that do this Jekyll and Hyde of air-rocking justice.

John Henry Newman

There are wounds of the spirit which never close and are intended in God's mercy to bring us nearer to Him, and to prevent us leaving Him by their very perpetuity. Such wounds then may almost be taken as a pledge, or at least as a ground for a humble trust, that God will give us the great gift of perseverance to the end. This is how I comfort myself in my own great bereavements.

John H. Johnson

Long shots do come in and hard work, dedication and perseverance will overcome almost any prejudice and open almost any door.

John Ortberg

Solitude is the one place where we can gain freedom from the forces of society that will otherwise relentlessly mold us. Solitude requires relentless perseverance.

John Ortberg

To become grateful, I must learn that I can handle disappointment and delayed gratification with grace and perseverance. This is why practices such as fasting and simplicity are such powerful tools for transformation. The experience of frustration and disappointment is irreplaceable in the development of a grateful heart.

John Milton

So Satan, whom repulse upon repulse Met ever, and to shameful silence brought, Yet gives not o'er though desperate of success.

John Dickinson

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 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.

Josephus Daniels

Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.

Joyce Brothers

Studies indicate that the one quality all successful people have is persistence.

Joseph Pilates

The lungs cannot be completely deflated at first without considerable effort. With perseverance, however, the desired results can be accomplished and with increasing power, gradually and progressively develop the lungs to their maximum capacity.

Josh Billings

Perseverance is king.

Livy

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Lynda Obst

There is a fine line between perseverance and madness.

Luke Bryan

From my dad I learned to be good to people, to always be honest and straightforward. I learned hard work and perseverance.

Louis D. Brandeis

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.

Lord Byron

In commitment, we dash the hopes of a thousand potential selves.

Lord Chesterfield

Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.

Malcolm Forbes

Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.

Magic Johnson

Even when I went to the playground, I never picked the best players. I picked guys with less talent, but who were willing to work hard and had the desire to be great.

Major Taylor

I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves.

Mahatma Gandhi

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

John Lennon

Whatever gets you through the night

Jimmy Cliff

Rome was not built in a day Opposition will come your way But the harder the battle you see It's the sweeter the victory

Jim Rohn

The big challenge is to become all that you have the possibility of becoming. You cannot believe what it does to the human spirit to maximize your human potential and stretch yourself to the limit.

Jim Rohn

Character is a quality that embodies many important traits, such as integrity, courage, perseverance, confidence and wisdom. Unlike your fingerprints that you are born with and can't change, character is something that you create within yourself and must take responsibility for changing

George Lucas

If you want to be successful in a particular field of endeavor, I think perseverance is one of the key qualities.

Emily Post

Any child can be taught to be beautifully behaved with no effort greater than quiet patience and perseverance, whereas to break bad habits once they are acquired is a Herculean task.

Elaine Paige

My dad always told me that perseverance furthers. He was right.

Samuel Adams

The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude, and perseverance.

Samuel Adams

If men of wisdom and knowledge, of moderation and temperance, of patience, fortitude and perseverance, of sobriety and true republican simplicity of manners, of zeal for the honour of the Supreme Being and the welfare of the commonwealth; if men possessed of these other excellent qualities are chosen to fill the seats of government, we may expect that our affairs will rest on a solid and permanent foundation.