Kofi Annan Quotes

Better off dead than giving in; not taking what you want.

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.

Just remember, strength and courage. If you stand on principle, you'll never lose.

There is a fine line between perseverance and madness.

Stubbornness is a virtue if you are right.

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

It's the courage to stay with something long enough to succeed at it.

Lack of persistence is one of the major causes of failure. Moreover, experience with thousands of people has proved that lack of persistence is a weakness common to the majority of men. It is a weakness which may be overcome with effort.

Never give up! And remember, determination is as important as talent.

You may get real tired watching me, but I'm not going to quit.

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

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause, and of obstinacy in a bad one.

One thing Britons have always been celebrated for, and that is being able to stick it out in a tight place.

I've inherited a kind of... willfulness, a kind of quiet willfulness that I'll just hang in there with something until it happens.

I'm not the most patient person in the world. I am one of the most persistent people in the world.

That's how I would describe myself, persistent.

Maybe I don't have the patience to make a virtue of necessity - the patience to carry something all the way through, and to actually say something. Lately, the songs are more jagged and they don't really lend themselves to that. I just take it one bit at a time.

Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.

Confidence is a static state. Determination is active. Determination allows for doubt and for humility - both of which are critical in the world today. There is so much that we don’t know, and so much that we know we don’t know. To be overly confident or without doubt seems silly to me. Determination, on the other hand, is a commitment to win, a commitment to fight the good fight.

You have to persevere and fortify your pertinacity until the will to good becomes a disposition to good.

In every human endeavor, persistence is everything.

I've always admired your rather formidable will, your refusal to back away from difficulties, but sometimes strength isn't about perseverance. Sometimes it's about knowing when to quit.

No I don't ever give up. I would have to be dead or completely incapacitated

I don't give up because I don't give up. I don't believe in it.