Without this tremendous passion for power, influence, and advantage which money gives, how could nature develop the highest type of man? Without this infinite longing, whence would come the discipline which industry, perseverance, tact, sagacity, and frugality give?
Most of the time I liked school and got good grades. In junior high, though, I hit a stumbling block with math - I used to come home and cry because of how frustrated I was! But after a few good teachers and a lot of perseverance, I ended up loving math and even choosing it as a major when I got to college.
Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
You look at the best players in the game - Wayne Gretzky, Bobby Orr - they didn't sit on the couch and then one day join the NHL. They worked on their game. Their talent was perseverance, dedication. Those are talents to me; that's what gets you to the NHL.
My songs have always had hope and perseverance in them - I never write songs that have no escape hatch, no positivity.
Preferring healthful foods is a skill, and skills take practice and perseverance to develop.
You see any movie, and it's just a feat of human strength and perseverance. It is a brutally challenging business.
Indomitable perseverance in a business, properly understood, always ensures ultimate success.
I look at my grandparents and what they dealt with in the Japanese internment in Arizona. That sense of perseverance, of making the best out of an incredibly bad situation, has always been something I drew inspiration from. I always ask myself, 'What in the world do I have to complain about?'
Perseverance is also key to success in any endeavor, but without perseverance in combat, there can be no victory.
The key to success is action, and the essential in action is perseverance.
I have never had to face anything that could overwhelm the native optimism and stubborn perseverance I was blessed with.
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
Perhaps the best-known Old Testament example of perseverance is the story of Job.
The U.S. Olympic spirit award is an award that is given to an athlete who embodies the Olympic spirit in more ways than just on the playing field, in showing incredible perseverance, in overcoming obstacles, and what we wanted to do is have everybody can vote on-line.
The three ordinary things that we often don't pay enough attention to, but which I believe are the drivers of all success, are hard work, perseverance, and basic honesty.
I know there are writers who like to say that every novel is hard, and it doesn't get easier. That may be the case, and I've only written two. But the first, to me, was characterized by an enduring oscillation between perseverance and a profound doubt.
Everything I've achieved has come from perseverance. I've never met another entrepreneur who had a painless path to success - everyone who tries to bring new ideas to the world is tested.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Ledger art represents a spirit which has lasted through the hardships and turmoil. It is my goal and ambition that this style of pictograph art continues to pay tribute to the perseverance of my ancestors who adapted and created works of art during a period of life changing turmoil and injustice.
