Quotes on Perseverance

Yup, 6 Perseverance will be my new form class for 2010. I think it's best to summarise the meaning of Perseverance from the following quotes.

"People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to."

- George E. Allen

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
- Winston Churchill


"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!"
- Richard M. Devos


"Patience and perseverance surmount every difficulty."


"Before success comes in any man's life he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps, some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and most logical thing to do is to quit. That is exactly what the majority of men do."
- Napoleon Hill


Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting."
- Napoleon Hill


"There is no failure except in no longer trying."
- Elbert Hubbard


"Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance."
- Dr. Samuel Johnson


"Defeat is simply a signal to press onward."
- Helen Keller


"Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.”

“Try and fail, but don't fail to try.”

“Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.”

“Stay the course, light a star,

Change the world where'er you are.”

"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave."
— Calvin Coolidge
30th president of the United States

"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 J. Watson, Jr

"The characteristic of a genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats."
— B.C. Forbes

"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination."
— Tommy Lasorda

"Even the woodpecker owes his success to the fact that he uses his head and keeps pecking away until he finishes the job he starts."
— Coleman Cox

"We will either find a way or make one."

— Hannibal, Carthaginian General

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of determination."
— Vince Lombardi