What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning - and some of them many times over - what do you find? That you can swim? Well - life is just the same as learning to swim! Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!
Alfred Adler
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
Napoleon Hill
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
Benjamin Franklin
Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.
Orison Swett Marden
That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
William Blake
Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.
Publilius Syrus
The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.
Ted W. Engstrom
Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems.
Paul J. Meyer
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
Napoleon Hill
A man may fight fiercely to hold his own in business; but he does not need to fight to get ahead of someone in the elevator, or up the car steps, or at the post office window. And no matter how strong competition is, business and personal courtesy make it easier and pleasanter for everybody.
William H. Hamby
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
F. Scott Fiztgerald
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Harriet Beecher Stowe