Persistence is Key to Victory
Being right isn't enough. If we speak the truth ninety times, but then stop speaking the truth, those spreading propaganda will win when they repeat their false statements for the ninety-first time.
Whoever lasts longest will win.
The propagandists will try to destroy the American public's ability to think by repeating lies over and over for years on end.
We must keep speaking the truth and demanding justice again and again until the truth is known by all, and justice prevails.
It is hard to beat a person who never gives up.
- Babe Ruth
I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it. I think if you are determined enough and willing to pay the price, you can get it done.
- Mike Ditka
It isn't whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
- Vince Lombardi
My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging
- Hank Aaron
I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.
- Arnold Palmer
My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.
- Bjorn Borg
Continuous excellent effort, not maximum strength or superior IQ, is the key to unlocking your potential as an achiever.
- Greg Werner (Strength & Conditioning Coach)
- Benjamin Franklin
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
- John Quincy
Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.
- Winston Churchill
Never, never, never give up.
- Winston Churchill
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
-Calvin Coolidge
- Calvin Coolidge
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
- Thomas Edison
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
- Thomas Edison
Sticking to it is the genius! Any other bright-minded fellow can accomplish just as much as I did if he will stick like hell and remember nothing that's any good works by itself. You got to make the damn thing work. I'll never give up, for I may have a streak of luck before I die.
- Thomas Edison
The three great essentials to achieving anything worthwhile are; first, hard work, second, stick-to-it-iveness, and third, common sense.
- Thomas Edison
Nearly every man who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.
- Thomas Edison
It's not than I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
- Albert Einstein
In the middle of a difficulty lies opportunity.
- Albert Einstein
When one door closes another one opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.
- Alexander Graham Bell
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in my tenacity.
- Louis Pasteur
Those who have found real success, whatever field they might work in, will tell you that the better part of success is persistence, sticking with it, refusing to give up.
- Lawrence G. Boldt
It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance and sweeps away all obstacles.
- Claude M. Bristol
Never consider the possibility of failure; as long as you persist, you will be successful.
- Brian Tracy
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there's love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.
- Ella Fitzgerald
When you get in a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.
- Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
- Samuel Johnson
Your biggest break can come from never quitting. Being at the right place at the right time can only happen when you keep moving toward the next opportunity.
- Arthur Pine
All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line.
Many a man has taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
For now you know one of the greatest principles of success; if you persist long enough you will win.
- Og Mandino
I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult... I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking.
- Og Mandino
Persistent people begin their success where others end in failures.
- Edward Eggleston
We can do anything we want as long as we stick to it long enough.
- Hellen Keller
What doesn't kill me makes me stronger.
- Camus
A knowledge of the path cannot be substituted for putting one foot in front of the other.
M.C. Richards
- Thomas Carlyle
Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
- Douglas MacArthur
A jug fills drop by drop.
- Buddha
What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.
- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
- Mother Teresa
The best way out is through.
- Robert Frost
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed.
They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
- B.C. Forbes
The big shots are only the little shots who keep shooting.
- Christopher Morley
The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
- Confucius
Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.
- Herodotus
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
- William Feather
That which we persist in doing becomes easier - not that the nature of the task has changed, but our ability to do has increased.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think I'd like to be remembered as someone who beat the odds through just plain determination. ... that I persevered. Because I think that being somewhat of a pest to life, constantly plaguing and pursuing, will bring results.
- Sylvester Stallone
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most people succeed because they are determined to.
- George E. Allen
- George Allen
- Napoleon Hill
Luck favors the persistent. This simple truth is a fundamental cornerstone of successful company builders. The builders of visionary companies were highly persistent, living to the motto: Never, never, never give up.
- James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras
Persistence is insurance against failure.
- Earl Nightingal
Let perseverance be your engine and hope your fuel.
- H. Jackson Brown Jr
When I thought I couldn't go on, I forced myself to keep going. My success is based on persistence, not luck.
- Norman Lear
Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Victories often occur after you see no way to succeed but refuse to give up anyway.
- Dave Weinbaum
One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.
- Napoleon Hill
Being defeated is only a temporary condition; giving up is what makes it permanent.
- Marilyn vos Savant
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.
- Dennis Waitley
- Benjamin Disraeli
A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence.
- Jim Watkins
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.
- Dale Carnegie
How long should you try? Until.
- Jim Rohn
In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins; not through strength, but through persistence.
- Unknown
What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
- Napoleon Hill
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
- Nelson Mandela
If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, Here comes number seventy-one!
- Richard M. Devos
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
- Norwegian proverb
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From Men who Stare at Goats
Chapter One: The General
This is a true story. It is the summer of 1983. Major General Albert Stubblebine III is sitting behind his desk in Arlington, Virginia, and he is staring at his wall, upon which hang his numerous military awards. They detail a long and distinguished career. He is the United States Army's chief of intelligence, with sixteen thousand soldiers under his command. He controls the army's signals intelligence, their photographic and technical intelligence, their numerous covert counterintelligence units, and their secret military spying units, which are scattered throughout the world. He would be in charge of the prisoner-of-war interrogations too, except this is 1983, and the war is cold, not hot.
He looks past his awards to the wall itself. There is something he feels he needs to do even though the thought of it frightens him. He thinks about the choice he has to make. He can stay in his office or he can go into the next office. That is his choice. And he has made it.
He is going into the next office.
General Stubblebine looks a lot like Lee Marvin. In fact, it is widely rumored throughout military intelligence that he is Lee Marvin's identical twin. His face is craggy and unusually still, like an aerial photograph of some mountainous terrain taken from one of his spy planes. His eyes, forever darting around and full of kindness, seem to do the work for his whole face.
In fact he is not related to Lee Marvin at all. He likes the rumor because mystique can be beneficial to a career in intelligence. His job is to assess the intelligence gathered by his soldiers and pass his evaluations on to the deputy director of the CIA and the chief of staff for the army, who in turn pass it up to the White House. He commands soldiers in Panama, Japan, Hawaii, and across Europe. His responsibilities being what they are, he knows he ought to have his own man at his side in case anything goes wrong during his journey into the next office.
Even so, he doesn't call for his assistant, Command Sergeant George Howell. This is something he feels he must do alone.
Am I ready? he thinks. Yes, I am ready.
He stands up, moves out from behind his desk, and begins to walk.
I mean, he thinks, what is the atom mostly made up of anyway? Space!
He quickens his pace.
What am I mostly made up of? he thinks. Atoms!
He is almost at a jog now.
What is the wall mostly made up of? he thinks. Atoms! All I have to do is merge the spaces. The wall is an illusion. What is destiny? Am I destined to stay in this room? Ha, no!
Then General Stubblebine bangs his nose hard on the wall of his office.
Damn, he thinks.
General Stubblebine is confounded by his continual failure to walk through his wall. What's wrong with him that he can't do it? Maybe there is simply too much in his in-tray for him to give it the requisite level of concentration. There is no doubt in his mind that the ability to pass through objects will one day be a common tool in the intelligence-gathering arsenal. And when that happens, well, is it too naive to believe it would herald the dawning of a world without war? Who would want to screw around with an army that could do that? General Stubblebine, like many of his contemporaries, is still extremely bruised by his memories of Vietnam.
These powers are attainable, so the only question is, by whom? Who in the military is already geared toward this kind of thing? Which section of the army is trained to operate at the peak of their physical and mental capabilities?
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