Perseverance Quotes

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life — think of it, dream of it, live on that idea.

Don't take rest after your first victory because if you fail in second, more lips are waiting to say that your first victory was just luck.

Your beliefs become your thoughts, your thoughts become your words, your words become your actions, your actions become your habits, your habits become your values, your values become your destiny.

The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature.

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

Do not seek pleasure for its own sake.

I can resist everything except temptation.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

Miles to go before I sleep.

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

Slow and steady wins the race.

Don't give up, that's what life is: to continue the journey, to follow your dreams, to unknot time, to move the rubble and uncover the sky.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

Without accumulating little steps, one cannot reach a thousand miles; without gathering little streams, one cannot form a river or a sea.

Tell no lies. Claim no easy victories.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine.

If you don't give up, you still have a chance. Giving up is the greatest failure.

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

All life is yoga.

Sow a thought and you reap an action; sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny.

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good.

A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine.

To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate.

You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life.'

Practice yourself, for heaven's sake, in little things; from them proceed to greater.

No man is good by chance. Virtue is something which must be learned.

Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men.

Every body perseveres in its state of being at rest or of moving uniformly straight forward, except insofar as it is compelled to change its state by forces impressed.

No great thing is created suddenly.

The true science of martial arts means practicing them in such a way that they will be useful at any time, and to teach them in such a way that they will be useful in all things.

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

The most dangerous phrase in the language is, 'We've always done it this way.'

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

You cannot change your future, but you can change your habits, and surely your habits will change your future.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.

A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.