John D. Rockefeller Quotes

I think one of the most important attributes is perseverance.

Perseverance is a positive, active characteristic.

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.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

By the time I left school, I had a lot of tenacity.

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

The secret of our success is that we never, never give up.

Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.

Persistence is a secret weapon for everyone.

Success is not the absence of failure; it's the persistence through failure.

My motto is, 'Never quit.'

I'd made it this far and refused to give up because all my life I had always finished the race.

Almost anything difficult, any challenge takes time, patience, and hard work.

I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up.

Determination and hard work are as important as talent.

He had slipped, climbed, rolled, searched, walked, persevered, that is all. Such is the secret of all triumphs.

The genius thing that we did was, we didn't give up.

It is perseverance, and not genius that takes a man to the top. Rome is full of unrecognized geniuses. Only perseverance enables you to move forward in the world.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

If you look around at the people in show business today they are basically the people who didn't give up.

The big talent is persistence.

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

If you imagine someone with 100 percent determination and 100 percent intelligence, you can discard a lot of intelligence before they stop succeeding. But if you start discarding determination, you very quickly get an ineffectual and perpetual grad student.

I have always been one to encourage perseverance.