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Persistence Through Adversity By Patrick Wright01/05/2026

Persistence Through Adversity

Table of Contents

Resilience and Perseverance

Success is simply never giving in to failure - either in mind or body.

Of course, perseverance does not guarantee success, but success is often unattainable without it.

Success is determined by not giving up.

The path to success is not a straight line.

Great success does not come without failure and shame

A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success

One thing we all know, if one does not possess PERSISTENCE, one does not achieve noteworthy success in any calling.

Success can come to a person who has failed, but it will never come to a person who quits

Success flourishes only in perseverance ceaseless, restless perseverance.

Success is buried on the other side of rejection.

Success consists of going from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

Success Despite Failure

Success had put me on the wrong track and I did not know that there is a kind of success worse than failure, and a kind of failure worth all the success in the world. Neither did I know that the distant friendship of Rainer Maria Rilke would one day console me for having seen his lamp burn without knowing that it was signalling me to go and singe my wings against its flame.

Great success does not come without failure and shame

A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success

Success can come to a person who has failed, but it will never come to a person who quits

No one is ever successful at everything that they do.

Success in life does not necessarily originate with academic success.

Success consists of going from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

Success and Community

Success without a successor is a failure

Success is not success until it impacts the community of people around you.

Success won`t be a complete success unless they are shared with others, or benefit society in someway.

With no one to share it with, success would be just another reminder that she was alone.

If you have achieved any level of success, then pour it into someone else. Success is not success without a successor.

Success is not success without a successor.

Individual success is a myth. No one succeeds all by herself.

All true success flows out of giving something to someone.

Success as a Journey

Success is never a place but a perspective.

Success is never a place or position but a new state of self-realization.

Success doesn't come to you; you go to it.

Success is not about age, it's about action.

Success is never achieved for when your think you reach it, something else grabs your interest.

The path to success is not a straight line.

success only come to those who dare to attempt...

Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

To me, the model of success is not linear. Success is completing the full circle of yourself.

Success and Self-Realization

Success is never a place or position but a new state of self-realization.

Success is to not mistake your wishes for people’s opinions.

Success is not about age, it's about action.

If you expect nothing but success, then you will be a success.

To me, the model of success is not linear. Success is completing the full circle of yourself.

Self-acceptance leads to success, not the other way around.

Success and Comparison

Your success is not based on the success of others.

...success is not a comparison of what we have done with what others have done.

One person's success doesn't take away from your own.

Just because you're not successful doesn’t mean you can’t be successful.

Without an expectation of success, one is rarely successful.

Success and Expectations

It is never possible to guarantee success, it is only possible to deserve it.

Without an expectation of success, one is rarely successful.

Success never needs an excuse.

Success and average don’t have nothing to do with each other.

Success is only measured in terms of JOY.

Success and Effort

Success doesn't come to you; you go to it.

Success is determined by not giving up.

One thing we all know, if one does not possess PERSISTENCE, one does not achieve noteworthy success in any calling.

Success can come to a person who has failed, but it will never come to a person who quits

Success is like a ladder and no one has ever climbed a ladder with their hands in their pockets.

Success doesn't make you and failure doesn't break you.

Success as a Perspective

Success is never a place but a perspective.

Success is counted sweetest by those ne'er succeed.

Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.

Success is only measured in terms of JOY.

Other

Nothing Succeeds Like Success".

Nothing succeeds like indifference to success.

...the thing about success is that it doesn't seem like a natural result of unsuccessfulness.

There's nothing in the world that breeds success like success.

Nothing succeeds like success.

Business success requires a winning strategy; there is no successful company that doesn’t have one.

The taste of success is different when no one believes you.

Success is like an iceberg. Nobody sees the work that comprises it.

Nothing equips you for success like noble failure.

Being successful is the only way to keep doubters' and haters' mouths shut.

Success is not achieved; its written

Success is not got in twinkling of an eye.

There is no key ingredient to success, which changes from person to person.

Success is not for those who love to chase after pleasure.

There is no success other than happiness.

Financial success is only partial success.

Professional success is only partial success.

Premature satisfaction with half-success is a dream-killer of ambition , nobody should indulge in it.

Success can only be measured with achievement.

Every success has a beginning, which is zero

Success is always found in unknown places and you can never reach such places without hope and belief.

To sum it up, success is nothing more than a small act of courageousness.

Real success is not defined by materialistic values.

Success isn't always about triumph.

Nothing succeeds like success ... and failure is no success at all.

One is never ready for success. It consecrates and looses you at the same time.

Sometimes success comes in ways you don't expect.

If you have a successful run, everything comes to you. Nothing succeeds like success.

SUCCESS is not about HERE and NOW. you must pass the TEST OF TIME. the litmus test is FIFTY YEARS from now. SUCCESS is SUCCESSION.

On the one hand, undeserved success gives no satisfaction... but, on the other hand, well-deserved failure gives no satisfaction either.

There's no right or wrong, success or failure.

Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this law.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

If it isn't a success, that still wouldn't be grounds for divorce.

Even success needs its consolations.

Success rarely brings satisfaction.

There's nothing like success.

Nobody accomplishes success by themselves.

Success is little more than a chemical compound of man with moment.

Nothing is as seductive as the assurance of success.

Success only feeds the appetite of aggression.

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

There's no explanation for success. Success just comes out of life.

Success and profitability are outcomes of focusing on customers and employees, not objectives.

Everything can be undone, including success.

Success is being nothing but a quote.

There's no such thing as success on an isolated level.

You can't imbibe someone's success by f*cking them.

There's no abiding success without commitment.

It's not about success, it's about progress.

Nobody can be a success if they don't love their work.

Success is the result achieved when nobody answers.

The funny thing about having all this so-called success is that behind it is a certain horrible emptiness.

Nothing succeeds so well as success.

Success and average don't have nothing to do with each other.

Nothing recedes like success.

Success can't be forced.

You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.

Just because you’re not successful doesn’t mean you can’t be successful.

Success only breeds a new goal.

There’s nothing in the world that breeds success like success.

There’s nothing like success.

Success can come to a person who has failed, but it will never come to a person who quits.

If it isn’t a success, that still wouldn’t be grounds for divorce.

One person’s success doesn’t take away from your own.

Success can’t be forced.

Success doesn’t come to you, you go to it.

There’s no right or wrong, success or failure.

There is no recipe for success – it is as unique as you are.

Success presented itself as an impossibility, and the hope of it as a wild hallucination.

There’s no such thing as success on an isolated level.

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Patrick Wright

Software engineer and creator of Quotesperation. I curate wisdom from history's greatest minds to inspire and guide modern life. When I'm not collecting quotes, I'm writing about technology and finding connections between timeless wisdom and today's challenges.