Victory belongs to the most persevering.

If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.

Unsuccessful people make decisions based on current situations. Successful people make decisions based on where they want to be.

It matters not what goal you seek It's secret here reposes; You've got to dig from week to week To get Results and Roses.

Football is like life—it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

Continuous effort — not strength or intelligence — is the key to unlocking our potential.

Half-finished work generally proves to be labor lost.

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never-in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

If we all can persevere, if we can in every land and office look beyond our own shores and ambitions, then surely the age will dawn in which the strong are just and the weak secure and the peace preserved.

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise.

This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.

Persistence guarantees that results are inevitable.

Real excellence does not come cheaply. A certain price must be paid in terms of practice, patience, and persistence—natural ability notwithstanding.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.

Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page for each day; it helps. Then, when it gets finished, you are always surprised.

To remain indifferent to the challenges we face is indefensible. If the goal is noble, whether or not it is realized within our lifetime is largely irrelevant. What we must do therefore is to strive and persevere and never give up.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

The same power that rose Christ from the dead, is living inside of you.

It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he as imagined, he will meet with success unexpectedly in common hours.

Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

Either you run the day, or the day runs you.

Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.

Far better it is to dare might things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they in the gray twilight that knows nor victory nor defeat.

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting and achieving goals.

The change in motion is proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force is impressed.

I just want God’s will. And He’s allowed to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promise land . . . So I’m happy tonight. I’m not worried about anything. I’m not fearing any man.

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to allow his vision wherever it takes him.

But the bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.

The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consist in nothing more than in the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.

A man, to carry on a successful business, must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing. A man can cultivate this faculty only by an appreciation for the finer things in life.