2,087 Quotes About Perseverance

I want you to start realising how far away you are from being able to listen professionally.

You listen like an amateur and fool yourself into believing it is enough when it is not.

If you woke before dawn one morning with the formula for a vaccine, which would cure the most ghastly disease currently known to man, releasing millions from an agonising death, would you roll over and resume sleeping until daylight?

Sometimes, if you get too close to a subject you can miss what’s most important.

There can be no success in sales without tenacity.

Seeking those elusive individuals is like mining for rare gems. It will take hard work, patience, and a persistent attitude. To find that rich seam of colourful stones, you will have to chip through dirt and rock. You will have to learn how to hold rubble in your hands and see the fortune inside.

From today onward, you will learn how to become evangelical about the many ways you help people.

It is your duty to save these prospects from that disappointment. Every potential customer, who misses out on what you have to offer, due to your lack of zeal or passion, every prospect who ends up with an excuse of an alternative from your lacklustre competition, should rest heavy on your conscience.

Young man, your problem and the reason so many like you fail, is simply because you allow yourself to give up far too early.