Success requires persistence, the ability to not give up in the face of failure. I believe that optimistic explanatory style is the key to persistence.

If you are going to be successful, you must develop persistence. How do you do that? It is not easily condensed in one simple statement, but one thing you can be sure of is that your must define your purpose.

Persistence is probably the single most common quality of high achievers. They simply refuse to give up. The longer you hang in there, the greater the chance that something will happen in your favor. No matter how hard it seems, the longer you persist the more likely your success.

Enthusiasm can help you find the new doors, but it takes passion to open them. If you have a strong purpose in life, you don't have to be pushed. Your passion will drive you there.

Your most vauluable asset can be your willingness to persist longer than anyone else.

because much more often than you’d think, sheer persistence is the difference between success and failure.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On!' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

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 priveledged 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.

What helps you persevere is your resilience and commitment.

To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will. “I will drink the ocean,” says the persevering soul, “at my will mountains will crumble up.” Have that sort of energy, that sort of will, work hard, and you will reach the goal. (I.

know one of the greatest principles of success; if I persist long enough I will win. I will persist. I will win.

If you don’t give up on something you truly believe in, you will find a way.

Talent will get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

Stubbornly persist, and you will find that the limits of your stubbornness go well beyond the stubbornness of your limits.