Thomas Edison on Perseverance
“Many of life’s failures are men who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
- Thomas Edison
“Many of life’s failures are men who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
- Thomas Edison
“Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.”
- Marilyn vos Savant
“Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance.”
- Samuel Johnson
“Endurance is the crowning quality…”
- James Russell Lowell
“Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves.”
- Winston Churchill
“With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”
- Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
“People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don’t know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.”
- George E. Allen
“Persistence isn’t using the same tactics over and over. That’s just annoying. Persistence is having the same goal over and over.”
- Seth Godin