Og Mandino Quotes

I will persist until I succeed. I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking.

Studies indicate that the one quality all successful people have is persistence. They're willing to spend more time accomplishing a task and to persevere in the face of many difficult odds. There's a very positive relationship between people's ability to accomplish any task and the time they're willing to spend on it.

Determination is the thing on which you can depend. It plods along without a swing, but gets there in the end.

Take courage and work on. Patience and steady work- this is the only way.

You really have to focus on what you're doing and just plow ahead no matter what hurdles are thrown in front of you.

It's dogged as does it. It ain't thinking about it.

I believe that perseverance is vital to success in any endeavor, whether spiritual or temporal, large or small, public or personal. . . . All significant achievement results largely from perseverance.

Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

So long as there is breath in me, that long I will persist. For now I know one of the greatest principles on success; if I persist long enough I will win.

A slow horse does not always reach the end of the journey.

If the biographer gives me credit for being a plodder, he will describe me justly. Anything beyond this will be too much. I can plod. I can persevere in any definite pursuit. To this I owe everything.

Mackay's Moral: If you are persistent, you will get it. If you are consistent, you will keep it.

Just put one foot in front of the other and don't worry about the length of the path. Once you get on that path, and the longer you stay on it, there eventually will come a time when you will not turn back.

I must continue to follow the path I take now. If I do nothing, if I study nothing, if I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it - keep going, keep going come what may.

Take courage and work on. Patience and steady work - this is the only way. Go on; remember - patience and purity and courage and steady work. . . . So long as you are pure, and true to your principles, you will never fail.

You've got to say, "I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it." It's called perseverance.

I am not sure I should have dared to start; but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.

The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

A person who refuses to give up will always succeed eventually.

No one ever achieved a goal by being interested in its achievement. One must be committed. In fact, in studying the source of people's success, I've found that persistence overshadows even talent as the most valued and effective resource in creating and shaping the quality of life. Most people give up a maddening five feet from their goal!

No, I shall not give in. I shall go on. I shall work to the end.

Walk that walk and go forward all the time. Don't just talk that talk, walk it and go forward. Also, the walk didn't have to be long strides; baby steps counted too. Go forward.

You'd better stay determined, because that's how our ancestors got us where we are.

Sheer persistence is the difference between success and failure.

The only thing that I have done that is not mitigated by luck, diminished by good fortune, is that I persisted, and other people gave up.