It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.

Luck is predictable; the harder you work, the luckier you get.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses.

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success.

There is nothing more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

Pray with perseverance, with faith, with calmness and serenity.

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

Persistence is the great measure of individual human character.

As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want.

I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000-step process.

Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.

Hope: A pathological belief in the occurrence of the impossible.

I have no Napoleonic dream. I'm just hard-working and pragmatic.

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

We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

Perseverance is impossible if we don't permit ourselves to hope.

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.

Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.

Stay the course, light a star, Change the world where'er you are.

Don't give up on your dreams, or your dreams will give up on you.

To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.

Watch the turtle. He only moves forward by sticking his neck out.

Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.

Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element in prayer.

Having limits to push against is how you find out what you can do.

Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for.

Success is generally due to holding on, and failure to letting go.

Tenacity isn't just the most important thing, it's the only thing.

The only tip I have for an artist is perseverance... Never give up.

Final perseverance is the necessary evidence of genuine conversion.

To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will.

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs.

There are some timid souls that will never know victory nor defeat.

. . . Wait, my child, wait and work on. Patience, patience. . . . .

Nothing else is necessary but these - love, sincerity, and patience.

Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

Long distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.

He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

We are what we do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.

Whatever necessity lays upon thee, endure; whatever she commands, do.

By perseverance, study, and eternal desire, any man can become great.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

A door opens to me. I go in and am faced with a hundred closed doors.

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