20 Quotes To Inspire Us To Persevere

Let's face it, no one wants to fail at anything! I mean, why would anyone want to feel the disappointment, heartbreak, dejection, loss, and even pain, of having failed at something they were so desperate to achieve success from? I talked yesterday of success, of what actually constitutes it, and how it is defined. Of course, success is viewed differently to each and every one of us, whilst failure is actually viewed in pretty much the same manner. What some constitute as being a failure, others constitute it as being nothing more than opportunity, and a reason to pivot or change. What some people perceive as failure in life, other people see as a blessing. Failure is simply determined by our perception and mindset. Once again, I think we first need to determine what success looks like for us though, and reiterating my views from yesterday, I believe achieving success is when we have achieved happiness and satisfaction in something. Whether that be in our relationship, and the fact that we are truly in love, we are honest, we are faithful, we are supportive, we are committed, we openly communicate, and we compromise, with our partner. If we achieve this, and we are genuinely happy and satisfied in our relationship, to me, that is success. It could be a personal goal, perhaps where we are competing in a sporting event, and we want to win. We may end up not winning, yet we qualify to compete in the first place, and we achieve a personal best, that is still success, and something we should feel proud, happy, and satisfied about, despite the result. It could be in our job, where we truly have a passion for the work we do, and we progress up through the ranks of the company we work for. That is success! It could be our finances, where we are constantly struggling and facing hardship, yet we become proactive in tightening our budget, and we make the effort to research and transition to a different line of work that generates a higher means of income. That is success! Success covers a plethora of different things. Inside ourselves, we know what success looks like, but what's the secret to reaching it?

Success isn't achieved without hard work, in some form or another. Yep, even the relationship example I used above, there still needs to be an amount of hard work that goes into ensuring your relationship is healthy, happy, and committed, for both you and your partner. When you drop off the commitment and dedication levels, quite often, the relationship begins to sour, hence the need to wholeheartedly apply yourself continually. The same with the example about the job. You don't climb the ranks in the company you work for by not working hard. Again, you need to apply yourself wholeheartedly, and prove to the manager, the executives, the corporation, and even the clients, that you have the work ethic, talent, skills, and ability, to warrant a promotion. That doesn't happen overnight either, that takes time! With the sporting example, you wouldn't reach competition level, achieve a personal best, or go on to win the competition, if you first didn't put in the hard work to continually train, condition, and better yourself. Then finally, with the finance example. You wouldn't achieve success in managing your finances better if you didn't discipline yourself to spend more wisely, or you didn't make sacrifices, or you didn't make the effort to research another working opportunity that offers a higher income potential. Everything with success should take hard work, effort, and commitment, otherwise it's not really success at all. The thing is, it's a challenge in itself just applying ourselves to this hard work, effort, and commitment, because it takes willpower for starters, in just resisting some of the luxuries and more leisurely activities and things in life, to instead be engaging in actions that require effort, commitment, and hard work. Not only that, but the higher the reward from the success and the goal we want to achieve, the higher the price of pain, hard work, effort, commitment, and sacrifice. What's worse is, the amount of patience we need to exercise just to get there. It takes a huge amount of patience, and I'm talking years here.

So how do we stay on the straight and narrow? How do we remained focused to achieve the success and goals we desire? And the biggest question, how do we continually push through all these challenges, setbacks, trials, rejections, and constant failures, that come part and parcel with the journey to success? Not only do we need the patience to wait for success, and the resilience to overcome all the adversities we face along the journey, but we need that ever important characteristic of perseverance. Perseverance is persistence in sticking to the action plan devised to achieve a desired result, irrespective of the many difficulties and delays in achieving the success, and despite the many changes to the action plan needed along the journey, courtesy of actions that failed to generate results. Perseverance is about never giving up or quitting. Perseverance is being dragged through the greatest of suffering, adversity, pain, and trials, yet still possessing the courage, motivation, and determination to continue progressing towards the success we desire. Perseverance is remaining focused on the goals we desire to achieve, despite the constant criticism and opposition we receive from others, including our friends and loved ones. Perseverance is a key component to achieving success, it's as simple as that! Here are 20 quotes to inspire you to persevere with pursuing your goals, and the success that you desire in life!

1.- "Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure."

- Benjamin Disraeli

2.- "Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th."

- Julie Andrews

3.- "Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish."

- John Quincy Adams

4.- "I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature."

- John D. Rockefeller

5.- "Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place - that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realize the great life."

- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

6.- "Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did."

- Newt Gingrich

7.- "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."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

8.- "No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance."

- Ramana Maharshi

9.- "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."

- Thomas Carlyle

10.- "The three ordinary things that we often don't pay enough attention to, but which I believe are the drivers of all success, are hard work, perseverance, and basic honesty."

- Azim Premji

11.- "Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears."

- Gillian Anderson

12.- “Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.”

- Walter Elliot

13.- "You aren't going to find anybody that's going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance."

- Lou Holtz

14.- "The path from dreams to success does exist. May you have the vision to find it, the courage to get on to it, and the perseverance to follow it."

- Kalpana Chawla

15.- "It's perseverance that's the key. It's persevering for long enough to achieve your potential."

- Lynn Davies

16.- "I strongly believe that through dedication and perseverance, one can overcome adversity to achieve success."

- Ginni Rometty

17.- "Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."

- Samuel Johnson

18.- "Perseverance doesn't always mean winning and losing. Perseverance means showing up and rising to the occasion and performing."

- Michael Chiesa

19.- "In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

20.- "The key to success is action, and the essential in action is perseverance."

- Sun Yat-sen

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