Quotes about Perseverance
Audax omnia perpeti Gens humana ruit per vetitum nefas.
— John Owen
Remember this your lifetime through: Tomorrow there will be more to do. And failure waits for all who stay With some success made yesterday. Tomorrow you must try once more, And even harder than before.
— John Wooden
If you stay intent and your ability warrants it, you will eventually reach the top of the mountain.
— John Wooden
Do not let what you can't do interfere with what you can do.
— John Wooden
Remember, results aren't the criteria for success — it's the effort made for achievement that is most important.
— John Wooden
Talent will get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
— John Wooden
Don't be afraid to fail. The greatest failure of all is not to act when action is needed.
— John Wooden
Sposobnost može da te dovede na vrh al da bi opstao na vrhu, potreban ti je karakter.
— John Wooden
During the toughest challenges in my life I've come to most appreciate all Coach Wooden means to me. The things he would say—"Don't lie, don't cheat, don't steal, don't whine, don't complain, don't make excuses; worry about the things you can control, and not the things you can't"—were endless. Yet there is an appropriate one for every situation. The real
— John Wooden
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." —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
— John Wooden
It took me a long time to understand that even a stubborn mule responds to gentleness.
— John Wooden
It's so easy to relax, to cut corners, to let down after you've reached your goal, and begin thinking you can just "turn it on" automatically, without proper preparation. It takes real character to keep working as hard or even harder once you're there.
— John Wooden