157 Quotes Tagged: perseverance

Let me tell your something. I'm from Chicago. I don't break.

It's not how we fall. It's how we get back up again.

Anyone can win a fight — when the odds — are easy! It's when the going's tough — when there seems to be no chance — that's when — it counts!

Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance.

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...You want to give up, throw in the towel but you
can't give up because you're all you have.

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb grey hairs

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

First, I thought, almost despairing,
This must crush my spirit now;
Yet I bore it, and am bearing-
Only do not ask me how.

Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never — in nothing, great or small, large or petty — never give in, except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

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

"Something very beautiful happens to people when their world has fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor. Perhaps, in a way, that's where humanity is now: about to discover we're not as smart as we thought we were, will be forced by life to surrender our attacks and defenses which avail us of nothing, and finally break through into the collective beauty of who we really are."

[Facebook post, August 31, 2013]

I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance. It is so hard. You put so much of your life into this thing. There are such rough moments in time that I think most people give up. I don't blame them. It's really tough and it consumes your life. If you've got a family and you're in the early days of a company, I can't imagine how one could do it. I'm sure it's been done, but it's rough. It's pretty much an 18-hour day job, seven days a week for a while. Unless you have a lot of passion about this, you're not going to survive.

Ninety-nine percent of all failures come from people who have a habit of making excuses.

A man is no bigger than the things which he allows to annoy him.

I would like to thank the people who've brought me those dark moments, when I felt most wounded, betrayed. You have been my greatest teachers.