Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

Never give in or give up easily on a cause.

Perseverance is not a passive submission to circumstances-it is a strong and active response to the difficult events of life.

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.

Whoever you are, whatever your dream, you have to be strong in your head and strong in your heart. Be strong. There's no quitting in the person who wants it bad enough.

Perseverance means to continue in a given course until we have reached a goal or objective, regardless of obstacles, opposition, and other counterinfluences...Perseverance is a positive, active characteristic...It gives us hope by helping us realize that the righteous suffer no failure except in giving up and no longer trying.

There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.

Most people who fail in their dream fail not from lack of ability but from lack of commitment.

When you want something badly enough, you will develop the confidence and the ability to overcome any obstacle in your way.

Perseverance is a choice. It's not a simple, one-time choice, it's a daily one. There's never a final decision.

This star won't go out. And it won't. we won't let it.

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.

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

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

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.

Perseverance is a great element of success.

What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.

Purity, patience and perseverance overcome all obstacles. All great things must of necessity be slow.

When you are passionate, you always have your destination in sight and you are not distracted by obstacles. Because you love what you are pursuing, things like rejection and setbacks will not hinder you in your pursuit. You believe that nothing can stop you!

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

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.

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.

Never mind these failures, these little backslidings; hold the ideal a thousand times, and if you fail a thousand times, make the attempt once more.

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.

He believes that "To persevere is favorable."

We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.