Ann Landers Quotes

When you are going through hell, keep on going. Never never never give up.

Endurance is the crowning quality.

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.

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.

Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

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

Perseverance is a virtue that cannot be understated.

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.

There's something to be said for perseverance.

I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up. Most people in this business gave up and went on to other things. If you simply didn't give up, you would outlast the people who came in on the bus with you.

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.

the only thing i knew how to do was to keep on keeping on

It will come all right in the end. There is the steady impulse of your determination that sets you on your feet again after every downfall and breakdown. Gradually the obstacles are all overcome and your current becomes stronger. Everything comes right in the end. Steady determination is what is required.

Count 10 over him - he'll get up

In the end, it's all about perseverance.

And you very soon find out, if you have not found it out before, that patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, ''Here comes number seventy-one!''

Those who successfully go through tough times do so because they keep insisting.

Patience and perserverance will accomplish more in this world than a brilliant dash. Remember that when something goes wrong.

Rather than having small smart tricks to get by, focus on holding on and persevering.

Perseverance is demonstrated by those who keep going when the going gets tough, who don’t give up even when others say, It can’t be done.

What is grit? Grit is refusing to give up. It's persistence. It's making your own luck.

Life, Stormy says, is not about how fast you run or even with what degree of grace. It's about perseverance, about staying on your feet and slogging forward no matter what.