PERSEVERANCE/PERSISTENCE

“Throughout history, all winners have encountered crusting defeats before claiming ultimate victory. In the end, they persevered, not allow their defeats to keep them down or hold them back.” –Mike Shanahan

“We must keep moving. Do not sit down. Do not say ‘I have done enough.’ Always see what else you can do to raise hell with the enemy. You must have a desperate determination to continually go forward.” -George Patton

“Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.” -Longfellow

“It takes time to build a corporate work of art. It takes time to build a life. And it takes time to develop and grow. So give yourself, your enterprise, and your family the time they deserve and the time they require.” -Jim Rohn

"Paralyze resistance with persistence." –Woody Hayes

“Energy and persistence conquer all things.” -Benjamin Franklin

"Victory belongs to the most persevering." -Napoleon Bonaparte

“Decide exactly what you want and resolve to persist, no matter what, until you achieve it.” -Brian Tracy

“Nothing of great value in life comes easily. The things of highest value sometimes come hard. The gold that has the greatest value lies deepest in the earth, as do the diamonds.” -Norman Vincent Peale

“The majority of people are ready to throw their aims and purposes overboard and give up at the first sign of opposition or misfortune. A few carry on despite all opposition until they attain their goal. There may be no heroic connotation to the word ‘persistence,’ but the quality is to the character of man what carbon is to steel.” -Napoleon Hill

“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” -Albert Einstein

“Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.” -Harvey Mackay

“If you’re going through hell, keep going.” -Sir Winston Churchill

“Toughness gives you the resilience to keep pressing on, even if your determination and optimism are lagging.” -Denis Waitley

"Press on and keep pressing. If you can’t fly, run; it you can’t run, walk; if you can’t walk – CRAWL.”  -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Perhaps your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay at a task longer than anyone else.” –Brian Tracy

“Before you can enjoy life, you must accept this basic tenet: Life isn’t fair.” -–Mike Shanahan

“I’m sure you’ve heard that adversity builds character and strength. These are, in my mind, the two most important components of persevering.” -–Mike Shanahan

“In the realm of ideas, everything depends on enthusiasm; in the real world, all rests on perseverance.”-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“We must all wage an intense, lifelong battle against the constant downward pull. If we relax, the bugs and weeds of negativity will move into the garden and take away everything of value.” –Jim Rohn

"You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days you feel good." –Jerry West

"Just before u break through the sound barrier is when the cockpit shakes the most." -Chuck Yeager

“Talent without perseverance never comes to full fruition. Opportunities without persistence will be lost. There is a direct correlation between perseverance and potential. if you have a habit of giving up, you need to overcome it to be successful.” –John Maxwell

"Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lives solely in my tenacity." –Louis Pasteur

“Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter; we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them." -William Hazlitt

“There are two essential requirements for success. The first is 'go-at-it-iveness' and the second is 'stick-to-it-iveness.'” - Orison Swett Marden

“There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor, the conquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.” - Orison Swett Marden

“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 defeat.” - B. C. Forbes

“Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.” -Longfellow

“It takes time to build a corporate work of art. It takes time to build a life. And it takes time to develop and grow. So give yourself, your enterprise, and your family the time they deserve and the time they require.” -Jim Rohn

“Decide exactly what you want and resolve to persist, no matter what, until you achieve it.” -Brian Tracy

“Nothing of great value in life comes easily. The things of highest value sometimes come hard. The gold that has the greatest value lies deepest in the earth, as do the diamonds.” -Norman Vincent Peale

“The majority of people are ready to throw their aims and purposes overboard and give up at the first sign of opposition or misfortune. A few carry on despite all opposition until they attain their goal. There may be no heroic connotation to the word ‘persistence,’ but the quality is to the character of man what carbon is to steel.” -Napoleon Hill

“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” -Albert Einstein

“Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.” -Harvey Mackay

“If you’re going through hell, keep going.” -Winston Churchill

“Toughness gives you the resilience to keep pressing on, even if your determination and optimism are lagging.” -Denis Waitley

"In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins- not through strength but by perseverance." -H. Jackson Brown

"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another." -Walter Elliott

"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan, 'press on' has solved, and always will solve, the problems of the human race." -Calvin Coolidge

"I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature." -John D. Rockefeller

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

"Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit." -Conrad Hilton

"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

"Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience." -Admiral Hyman Rickover

"For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again." -Proverbs 24:16