David Brainerd Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Failure cannot cope with persistence.

Persistence is the iron quality of success; if you persist long enough you must eventually succeed

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

Persistence isn't using the same tactics over and over. Persistence is having the same goal over and over.

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

I suppose in order to succeed at something you have to be very persistent. I've never done that.

At the end of every day of every year, two things remain unshakable, our constancy of purpose and our continuous discontent with the immediate present.

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.

In every human endeavor, persistence is everything.

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.

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

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.

My way is set as in stone, and I don't feel the need to veer off any longer. It has taken many days of searching and fighting, but in the end I have found what I was looking for. I have found my way home.

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

The way to succeed is never quit. That's it. But really be humble about it. ... You start out lowly and humble and you carefully try to learn an accretion of little things that help you get there.

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

You can accomplish anything with pure persistence and drive.

The persistent man with a poor plan stands a better chance of winning than the man with a perfect plan who hesitates and waivers in carrying it out.

If the going is tough and the pressure is on, If the reserves of strength have been drained and the summit is still not in sight, then the quality to seek in the person is neither great strength nor quickness of hand, but rather a resolute mind firmly set on its purpose that refuses to let its body slack or rest.