Quotes about perseverance
perseverance names people
My middle name really is perseverance. I've always believed that I had talent, even when I felt like a very inferior sort of person, which I spent a lot of time living my life feeling that I wasn't worthy. But even then I knew that I had something special, and maybe that's what it takes. Maybe people need to have that kind of particular core driving them. But I felt I had talent. Rita Moreno
perseverance believe one-day
It's very hard to become an actor in film and television, you have to have such perseverance and you have to really believe that if you have any sort of talent at all, you will find work one day. Renee O'Connor
perseverance water veins
It must not be thought that it is ever possible to reach the interior earth by any perseverance in mining: both because the exterior earth is too thick, in comparison with human strength; and especially because of the intermediate waters, which would gush forth with greater impetus, the deeper the place in which their veins were first opened; and which would drown all miners. Rene Descartes
perseverance mistake women
You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing. Rene Descartes
perseverance men feet
The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher. Thomas Huxley
perseverance moving men
It is perseverance, and not genius that takes a man to the top. Rome is full of unrecognized geniuses. Only perseverance enables you to move forward in the world. Robert Harris
perseverance fortitude deliberation
The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude, and perseverance. Samuel Adams
perseverance men simplicity
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. Samuel Adams
perseverance wall talent
Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall. Sydney J. Harris
perseverance fifty singles
With The Guess Who, it took us fifty-something singles before we had hits. Randy Bachman
perseverance adversity obstacles
To every obstacle oppose patience, perseverance and soothing language. Thomas Jefferson
perseverance hands risk
We do, then, most solemnly before God and the world declare that regardless of every consequence, at the risk of every distress, the arms we have been compelled to assume we will use with perseverance, exerting to their utmost energies all those powers which our Creator hath given us to preserve that liberty which he committed to us in sacred deposit and to protect from every hostile hand our lives and our properties. Thomas Jefferson
perseverance effort enemy
A good cause is often injured more by ill-timed efforts of its friends than by the arguments of its enemies. Persuasion, perseverance and patience are the best advocates on questions depending on the will of others. Thomas Jefferson
perseverance light way
Perseverance in object, though not by the most direct way, is often more laudable than perpetual changes, as often as the object shifts light. Thomas Jefferson
perseverance evil mind
When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through, it is best to make up our minds to it, meet it with firmness, and accommodate everything to it in the best way practicable. This lessens the evil; while fretting and fuming only serves to increase your own torments. Thomas Jefferson
perseverance art pain
There are people who buy pictures because they were difficult to do, and are done. Such pictures are often only a record of pain and dull perseverance. Great works of art should look as though they were made in joy. Real joy is a tremendous activity, dull drudgery is nothing to it. Robert Henri
perseverance mind succeed
Know that the mind which is born to succeed joins itself to a determined will and perseveres. Swami Vivekananda
perseverance littles lifetime
If you are truly flexible and go until... there is really very little you can't accomplish in your lifetime. Tony Robbins
perseverance entrepreneur obstacles
I also know, as an entrepreneur myself, you face new obstacles every day and you need to have the perseverance to see them through. Richard Branson
perseverance lying dedication
The power of a movement lies in the fact that it can indeed change the habits of people. This change is not the result of force but of dedication, of moral persuasion. Steven Biko
perseverance talent substitutes
Thankfully, perseverance is a good substitute for talent. Steve Martin
perseverance together littles
A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation. Saadi
perseverance determination fighting
It's important to just keep wanting whatever it is you want and fight for it, desperately. Susan Sarandon
perseverance passion successful
I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.... Unless you have a lot of passion about this, you're not going to survive. You're going to give it up. So you've got to have an idea, or a problem or a wrong that you want to right that you're passionate about; otherwise, you're not going to have the perseverance to stick it through. Steve Jobs
perseverance hard-work people
I want to find people who have had to work hard and who have learned from their failures. Perseverance is no guarantee you’ll succeed, but without it, it’s almost guaranteed you won’t. Steve Case
perseverance passion thinking
When I was trying to popularize the concept of the Internet - ten or 15 years ago - I came up with this concept of "the 5 Cs." Services needed to have content, context, community, commerce, and connectivity. After that, when I was trying to think of what the key management principles were to build into the culture, I started talking about the Ps. The P's were things like passion, perseverance, perspective and people. I think the people aspect is really the most important one. Steve Case
perseverance jobs thinking
I think what people love about the Steve Jobs story is not just the track record at Apple, but that comeback story, that he was thrown out of Apple, came back and built the company even greater. And that perseverance is so important in terms of entrepreneurship. And nobody is a better role model for that, for all entrepreneurs all over the world than Steve Jobs. Steve Case
perseverance giving goal
Say I have set my goal at 300 pounds, and I cannot do it. The very fact that I have been devotedly practising and practising gives me joy, and the tenacity or perseverance that I am showing is itself progress. Anything that we do devotedly and soulfully helps us make progress. Sri Chinmoy
perseverance men may
If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good. Thomas Watson, Jr.
perseverance determination persistence
We are made to persist. that's how we find out who we are. Tobias Wolff
perseverance rights suffering
Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake of the latter. The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude and perseverance. Let us remember that "if we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom," it is a very serious consideration ... that millions yet unborn may be the miserable sharers of the event. Samuel Adams
perseverance war moving
Let me tell you what is coming. After the sacrifice of countless millions of treasure and hundreds of thousands of lives you may win Southern independence, but I doubt it. The North is determined to preserve this Union. They are not a fiery, impulsive people as you are, for they live in colder climates. But when they begin to move in a given direction, they move with the steady momentum and perseverance of a mighty avalanche. Sam Houston
perseverance giving faithful
I pray to God to give me perseverance and to deign that I be a faithful witness to Him to the end of my life for my God. Saint Patrick