Quotes about Persistence
complete state of retreating
— Norman Vincent Peale
To go fast, row slowly.
— Norman Vincent Peale
I will persist until I succeed. I was not delivered into this world in defeat, nor does failure course in my veins. I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by my shepherd. I am a lion and I refuse to talk, to walk, to sleep with the sheep. The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny. I will persist until I succeed.
— Og Mandino
I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.
— Og Mandino
I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult... I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking.
— Og Mandino
I will persist until I succeed. I was not delivered into this world into defeat, nor does failure course in my veins. I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by my shepherd. I am a lion and I refuse to talk, to walk, to sleep with the sheep. The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny. I will persist until I succeed.
— Og Mandino
I will consider each day's effort as but one blow of my blade against a mighty oak.
— Og Mandino
I will remember the ancient law of averages and I will bend it to my good. I will persist with knowledge that each failure to sell will increase my chance for success at the next attempt. Each nay I hear will bring me closer to the sound of yea. Each frown I meet only prepares me for the smile to come. Each misfortune I encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow's good luck. I must have the night to appreciate the day. I must fail often to succeed only once.
— Og Mandino
I will never consider defeat and I will remove from my vocabulary such words and phrases as quit, cannot, unable, impossible, out of the question, improbable, failure, unworkable, hopeless, and retreat; for they are the words of fools. I
— Og Mandino
Take great comfort in knowing that all great feats are accomplished one small step at a time.
— Og Mandino
Failure no longer will be my payment for struggle.
— Og Mandino
Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell
— Oprah Winfrey