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1. Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.
By Samuel Johnson
2. Be like a postage stamp - stick to one thing until you get there.
By Josh Billings
3. With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.
By Sir Thomas Foxwell Buxton
4. 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. By Calvin Coolidge
5. Don't be discouraged. It's often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.
Anonymous
6. I am not the smartest or most talented person in the world, but I succeded because I keep going, and going, and going.
by Silvester Stallone
7. I know the price of success; dedication, hard work and unremitting devotion to the things you want to happen.
by Frank Lloyd Wrighty
8. Success generally depends upon knowing how long it takes to succeed.
by Charles de Montesquieu
9. Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
by William Feather
10. They who are the most persistent, and work in the true spirit, will invariably be the most successful.
by Samuel Smiles
11. If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.
by W.E. Hickson
12. The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
by Benjamin Disraeli
13. The heights by great men reached and kept
Were not attained by sudden flight,
But they, while their companions slept
Were toiling upward in the night.
-by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
14. Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody. -by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
15. Four steps to achievement; plan purposefully, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
by William A. Ward
16. No one succeeds without effort. . . . Those who succeed owe their success to their perseverance.
by Ramana Maharshi
17. Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
by Christopher Morley
18. The way to succeed is never quit. That's it. But really be humble about it . . . You start out lowly and humble and you carefully try to learn an accretion of little things that help you get there.
by Alex Hailey
19. A winner never quits and a quitter never wins.
by Anon.
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