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“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened.”
“If you don’t give up on your dreams, they don’t give up on you”
“The best way out is always through.”
“If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”
“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”
“In life, you'll have your back up against the wall many times. You might as well get used to it.”
“Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
“Excellence is the capacity to take pain.”
“The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination.”
“As long as a person doesn't admit he is defeated, he is not defeated - he's just a little behind and isn't through fighting.”
“In trying times, don't quit trying.”
“Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.”
“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.”
“Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.”
“Strength is the product of struggle.”
“Success is the culmination of failures, mistakes, false starts, confusion and the determination to keep going anyway.”
“It always seems impossible until it's done.”
“A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.”
“Hard things are put in our way, not to stop us, but to call out our courage and strength.”
“Fall seven times, stand up eight.”
“Grit can't be measured on pop quizzes, but it can often predict long-term success more than mere intelligence.”
“The strongest people are not those who show strength in front of us but those who win battles we know nothing about.”
“If you don't give up, you still have a chance.”
“Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.”
“Persistence overshadows even talent as the most valuable resource shaping the quality of life.”
“Life doesn't get easier or more forgiving; we get stronger and more resilient.”
“As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.”
“If you are going through a time of discouragement, there is a time of great personal growth ahead.”
“All things are difficult before they are easy.”
“All of us have seasons in life where holding on is the best we can do, but none of us are called to stay there... This is your moment to break through!”
“In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins - not through strength, but through persistence.”
“Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.”
“Sweet are the uses of adversity.”
“Sunshine all the time makes a desert.”
“A man is not finished when he is defeated, he is finished when he quits.”
“Genius is perseverance in disguise.”
“The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.”
“You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.”
“I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career... And that is why I succeed.”
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.”
“You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.”
“Energy and persistence conquer all things.”
“Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.”
“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
“Losers quit when they fail. Winners fail until they succeed.”
“When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't.”
“Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.”
“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.”
“A champion is someone who gets up when he can't.”
“A man's unique opportunity in life lies in the way in which he bears his burden.”
“Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.”
“We can't control the fact that bad things are going to happen, but it's how we react to them that really matters.”
“Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.”
“Success is not the absence of failure, it's persistence through failure.”
“People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.”
“Enthusiasm is common. Endurance is rare.”
“Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.”
“Perseverance brings good fortune.”
“Most people give up right before the big break comes, don't let that person be you.”
“The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.”
“A winner is just a loser who tried one more time.”
“You have to pick the places you don't walk away from.”
“The most persevering becomes the most talented.”
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”
“Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.”
“A good half of the art of living is resilience.”
“Fairytales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairytales tell children that dragons can be killed.”
“There is no failure except in no longer trying.”
“Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.”
“The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.”
“Throw me to the wolves and I will return leading the pack.”
“Your mind will quit a thousand times before your body will.”
“You may see me struggle, but you will never see me quit.”
“He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.”
“If you can't get out of it, get into it.”
“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
“The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.”
“When life takes the wind out of your sails, it is to test you at the oars.”
“Never, never, never give up.”
“A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.”
“The good, the painful, it is all a privilege.”
“Courage does not always roar. Sometimes, it is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'”
“Pain is temporary, pride is forever.”
“When it's darkest, men see the stars.”
“Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.”
“As important as hustle is, grit and resilience are equally as important because there's a lot of rejection in our business.”
“Never throw in the towel. Use it to wipe off the sweat and keep on going.”
“Success seems to largely be a matter of hanging on after others let go.”
“Adversity introduces a man to himself.”
“The test of a successful person is not an ability to eliminate all problems before they arise, but to meet and work out difficulties when they do arise.”
“Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew.”
“The phoenix must burn to emerge.”
“Rejection and perseverance are two very critical ingredients to succeed at literally any goal that you put your mind to.”
“Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.”
“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.”
“A professional is an amateur who did not quit.”
“What was hard to bear is sweet to remember.”
“The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.”
“There is no royal flower-strewn path to success. And if there is, I have not found it, for whatever success I have attained has been the result of much hard work and many sleepless nights.”
“It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.”
“If you get tired, learn to rest, not to quit.”
“The harder the battle, the sweeter the victory.”
“Every great story on the planet happened when someone decided not to give up, but kept going no matter what.”
“He who finds diamonds must grapple in mud and mire, because diamonds are not found in polished stones. They are made.”
“Tough times never last. Tough people do.”
“We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.”
“It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.”
“Life leaps like a geyser for those willing to drill through the rock of inertia.”
“Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.”
“Winners never quit and quitters never win.”
“The more difficult a victory, the greater the happiness in winning.”
“No matter how you feel, get up, dress up, show up, and never give up.”
“Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.”
“Success is not a gift; it’s earned through hard work and persistence”
“Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.”
“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.”
“I really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall.”
“If you are hurt, whether in mind or body, don't nurse your bruises. Get up and light-heartedly, courageously, good temperedly get ready for the next encounter. This is the only way to take life - this is also playing the game!”
“You just can't beat the person who never gives up.”
“If you're going through hell, keep going.”
“The only time you mustn’t fail is the last time you try”
“The only way around is through.”
“Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.”
“Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.”
“One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.”
“A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.”
“Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”
“The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.”
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
“Dead last finish is greater than did not finish, which trumps did not start.”
“No more romanticizing about how cool it is to be an entrepreneur. It's a struggle to save your company's life and your own skin every day of the week.”
“If there were not tribulation, there would be no rest; if there were no winter, there would be no summer.”
“Nothing is stronger than a broken man rebuilding himself.”
“I already know what giving up feels like. I want to see what happens if I don't.”
“Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.”
“Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.”
“There is no struggle, there is no progress.”
“To finish first, you must first finish.”
“The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.”
“It's not up to you how you fall. It's up to you how far you let yourself fall and how long it takes you to get back up and stand on your own two feet.”
“The middle of every successful project looks like a disaster.”
“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.”
“The measure of a man is what happens when nothing works and you got the guts to go on.”
“Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.”
“Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.”
“What ought one to say then as each hardship comes? I was practicing for this, I was training for this.”
“Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.”
“A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job.”
“Don't let the hard days win.”
“If you approach 100 people for seed capital, 99 of them may say no. You just need that one.”
“The difference between successful people and others is how long they spend feeling sorry for themselves.”
“The moment we believe that success is determined by an ingrained level of ability as opposed to resilience and hard work, we will be brittle in the face of adversity.”
“Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.”
“Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.”
“Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”
“Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more.”
“We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.”
“The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something.”
“I don’t stop. I don’t quit. I don’t give up”
“Big shots are little shots who kept on shooting.”
“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
“Persistence beats resistance”
“It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.”
“Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear. It's about getting up one more time than we fall down.”
“It's not that I'm so smart; it's just that I stay with problems longer.”
“Success is survival.”
“It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out. It's the grain of sand in your shoe.”
“Life is a series of problem-solving opportunities. The problems you face will either defeat you or develop you depending on how you respond to them.”
“Energy and persistence conquer all things.”
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
“Stamina is the comfort with being uncomfortable.”
“You're never a quitter until you stop trying.”
“The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.”
“Push through the pain and conquer the obstacles. Regardless of what you think today, it won't matter five years from now. So don't be afraid.”
“Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don't have the strength.”
“Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work through difficult problems.”
“We are built to conquer the environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.”
“Winners lose much more often than losers. So if you keep losing but you're still trying, keep it up! You're right on track.”
“There are two things you can do when you're faced with a challenge. And we're all faced with challenges at a certain point in our life. You can either conquer them or be conquered. I choose to conquer.”
“If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.”
“The best way to treat obstacles is to use them as stepping-stones.”
“Anything is possible. You can be told you have a ninety-percent chance or a one-percent chance, but you have to believe, and you have to fight.”
“Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up”
“That which does not kill me makes me stronger.”
“Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it.”
“When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”
“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”
“We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.”
“When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways, either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength.”
“Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.”
“Refuse to lose. Never ever quit.”
“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.”
“Sometimes when you're in a dark place you think you've been buried but you've actually been planted.”
“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.”
“A minute's success pays the failure of years.”
“If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.”
“Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.”
“Some people develop a wishbone where their backbone should be.”
“My strength did not come from lifting weights. My strength came from lifting myself up when I was knocked down.”
“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.”
“Make sure your worst enemy doesn't live between your own two ears.”
“Be patient and tough; some day this pain will be useful to you.”
“Pity is a paralyzing mental luxury.”
“I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance”
“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”
“Persistence and resilience are key to overcoming challenges and achieving success”
“A heart is a muscle, and what do muscles do when they are torn? They grow back stronger.”
“Man has never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.”
“The abundant life does not come to those who have had a lot of obstacles removed from their path by others...”
“The difference between a stumbling block and a stepping-stone is how high you raise your foot.”
“The difference between winning and losing is most often not quitting.”
“Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.”
“Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.”
“Talent develops in tranquility, character in the full current of human life.”
“Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going.”
“Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.”
“Every champion was once a contender who refused to give up.”
“Endurance is patience concentrated.”
“If you can't fly, then run; if you can't run, then walk; if you can't walk, then crawl; but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward.”
“Recipe for greatness? To bear up under loss, to fight the bitterness of defeat.”
“A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”
“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.”
“Money grows on the tree of persistence.”
“One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
“I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.”
“If you can't, you must. If you must, you can.”
“Every winner has scars.”
“Success is a brutal game of survival - only the strong make it”
“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”
“Your most valuable asset can be your willingness to persist longer than anyone else.”
“Stumbling is not falling.”
“All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles have strengthened me...”
“Resilience matters in success. Greatness comes from character, and character isn’t formed out of smart people: it’s formed out of people who have suffered”
“Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.”
“Success is not about perfection; it’s about persistence”
“Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.”
“Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.”
“We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.”
“There is no success without hardship.”
“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”
“Today is difficult, tomorrow is much more difficult, but the day after tomorrow is beautiful.”
“Patience and perseverance have a magical effect...”
“Being defeated is often only a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.”
“The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it.”
“If you won't suffer for your idea, do you believe it?”
“If you have tried and met with defeat, just remember that the greatest men in all history were the products of courage, and courage is born in the cradle of adversity.”
“I'm not telling you it's going to be easy, I'm telling you it's going to be worth it.”
“You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice.”
“Your best teacher is the person offering you your greatest challenge.”
“Nothing in the world can take the place of perseverance. Talent will not... Perseverance and determination alone are omnipotent.”
“We acquire the strength we overcome.”
“Do not pray for an easy life; pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.”
“Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
“Everyone who achieves success in a great venture solved each problem as they came to it. They kept going regardless of the obstacles they met.”
“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”
“Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war”
“Happiness is the real sense of fulfillment that comes from hard work.”
“I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection.”
