Persevering to Succeed

“The secret of success is constancy to purpose.”
—Benjamin Franklin

“Men don’t fail. They give up trying.”
—Elihu Root

“The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary. Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
—Thomas Edison

“The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don’t like to do. They don’t like doing them either necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose.”
—E.M. Gray

“I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance.”
—John D. Rockefeller

“Successful people are not necessarily the best and the brightest, the fastest and the strongest, but the ones with the most commitment.”
—Anthony Robbins

“Take great comfort in knowing that ALL great feats are accomplished one small step at a time.”
—Og Mandino

“A big advantage of going the extra mile is that there’s a lot less traffic on that road.”
—Anonymous