B. C. Forbes Quotes

In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.

How you start is important, but it is how you finish that counts. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter.

Greatness comes with patience.

Grit is living life like it's a marathon, not a sprint.

to maintain success, stamina is more important than talent. You have to learn to be a marathon runner.

Before success comes patience... when we add to our accomplishments the element of hard work over a long period of time, we'll place a far greater value on the outcome. When we are patient, we'll have a greater appreciation of our success.

Life’s a marathon, not a sprint.

Impatience never commanded success.

[T]he race is long - to finish first, first you must finish.

The key to anyone's success is staying with it!

If you persevere long enough, if you do the right things long enough, the right things will happen.

Patience is weapon. I learned that from my Laker days.

It's hard to remain patient when it seems so debilitating to do so. The balance comes with staying ambitious while being patient.

Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.

Infinite patience gets you immediate results.

I've learned over the years that when it comes to success, consistency is key. Consistent hard work that we may not like doing today, but for a payoff we'll love tomorrow. Earn it. Enjoy it.

Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.

Talent is long patience.

Without patience, there can be no genius

Every work has got to pass through hundreds of difficulties before succeeding. Those that persevere will see the light, sooner or later.

In the end, it's all about perseverance.

Business is a marathon, and most of society thinks it's a sprint.

Patient perseverance in well doing is infinitely harder than a sudden and impulsive self-sacrifice.

The only way things will happen is if people get over the notion that they must see immediate success. If they get over that notion and persist, then they will see things happen before they even realize it.

Time changes everything, but with patience we can keep our desires relatively constant. If we can just hang on long enough, time will eventually create for us the conditions in which we can succeed.