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Success Through Persistence By Patrick Wright01/05/2026

Success Through Persistence

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Success and Perseverance

The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit the bottom.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

Success does not start at the top; it begins by deciding to get up from the bottom.

Success is getting up one more time than you fall down.

Success isn't overnight. It's when everyday you get a little better than the day before. It all adds up.

Success is how you bounce on the bottom.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit the bottom.

The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.

Success means getting up 1 more time than you get knocked down.

Success and Hard Work

Success demands consistent effort and hard work.

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.

Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

Success requires first expending 10 units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce 10 units of results with each unit of effort.

Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.

Success is dependant on effort.

Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds.

The person determined to achieve maximum success learns the principle that progress is made one step at a time. A house is built one brick at a time. Football games are won a play at a time. A department store grows bigger one customer at a time. Every big accomplishment is a series of little accomplishments.

Success is built sequentially. It’s one thing at a time.

The common denominator for success is work.

Energy and patience in business are two indispensable elements of success.

Success and Time

Success is built over-time not over-night

In order to understand the concept of success, first understand the value of time.

Success is a fruit of slow growth.

In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.

If success is rare and slow, everybody knows how quick and easy ruin is.

Success results when preparation meets opportunity.

The key is over time. Success is built sequentially. It’s one thing at a time.

Success is not only determined by your ability to begin but by your ability to sustain once you have begun.

The day is committed to error and floundering; success and achievement are matters of long range.

Success and Failure

Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time.

It is not a simple matter to differentiate unsuccessful from successful experiments. . . .[Most] work that is finally successful is the result of a series of unsuccessful tests in which difficulties are gradually eliminated.

Success looks a lot like failure up until the moment you break through the finish line.

When a person works towards a goal, he or she immediately creates two possible scenarios or outcomes; namely success and failure.

When you chase success, your spark burns out quickly. When.

Mild success can be explainable by skills and labor. Wild success is attributable to variance.

Some people try to climb the ladder of success, while others try to jump on it

Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation

Success is hastened or delayed by one's habits.

Success is 3Ms: Your vision produces the Map; your actions produce the Motion; your persistence produces Monetary rewards.

Success and Preparation

Success depends upon previous preparation.

Success results when preparation meets opportunity.

Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation

Success occurs when preparation meets opportunity.

Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

Success requires first expending 10 units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce 10 units of results with each unit of effort.

Success might manifest overnight, but years of preparation preceded it.

Success is measured in months for me. When my health fails, it will fail quickly. Tumors grow on an exponential curve.

Before success comes patience... when we add to our accomplishments the element of hard work over a long period of time, we'll place a far greater value on the outcome. When we are patient, we'll have a greater appreciation of our success.

Success as a Journey

Success works as a cycle - growth and contraction, balancing and unbalancing - all while you're encountering hurdles that get higher and higher over time.

success is a constant state of transition.

Success is the circle, hard work is the perimeter of it. the diameter of success is the addition ofradius and radius of success is the failures of it

The ladder of success isn't a ladder. It's a series of steps with leaps interspersed along the way.

Success consists in the climb.

Success...is no longer a simple ascension of steps. You need to climb sideways and sometimes down, and sometimes you need to swing from the jungle gym and establish your own turf somewhere else on the playground.

Success isn't one straight line - it's a ladder, and there's always another rung above you to reach out for. Like anything else, there are ups and downs.

Success isn’t one straight line – it’s a ladder, and there’s always another rung above you to reach out for. Like anything else, there are ups and downs.

Success works as a cycle – growth and contraction, balancing and unbalancing – all while you’re encountering hurdles that get higher and higher over time.

The process is more important than the end-result; if you give up on the process, the end result will most likely be a failure. However, a solid process will often result in success.

Success is built sequentially. It’s one thing at a time.

Success and Patience

Ladder of success is made by nails of Patience.

Success takes patience like a snake stalking it's prey.

Before success comes patience... when we add to our accomplishments the element of hard work over a long period of time, we'll place a far greater value on the outcome. When we are patient, we'll have a greater appreciation of our success.

Success is often cyclical, with doldrums.

Success happens very slow and very sudden.

Success is the stamina of the underground.

Success takes patience like a snake stalking it's prey.

Energy and patience in business are two indispensable elements of success.

The continuation of success depends on greediness, patience, and dissatisfaction.

Success isn’t magic or hocus-pocus – it’s simply learning how to focus.

Success and Focus

Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus - it's simply learning how to focus.

We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in.

The first law of success is concentration - to bed all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right nor the left.

Success lies in the opposite direction of the normal pull.

Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed

Success isn’t magic or hocus-pocus – it’s simply learning how to focus.

Success is hastened or delayed by one’s habits.

Formula for success: Underpromise and overachieve.

Success is determined by how best you can utilize your time

The more time you spend thinking, the less time you spend doing. The less time you spend doing, the more you watch others do. This formula never equals success.

Success operates in active moments and not in idleness.

Success and Opportunity

Success results when preparation meets opportunity.

Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation

Success always comes when preparation meets opportunity.”4.

Success occurs when preparation meets opportunity.

Success might manifest overnight, but years of preparation preceded it.

Setting up your workspace for success creates a virtuous cycle to achieve your goals.

Success is preparing in time and taking the chance at the right time.

Success depends upon previous preparation.

Mild success can be explainable by skills and labor. Wild success is attributable to variance.

Success repeats itself until it becomes boring.

Other

Success is a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.

Success is the result of moving forward. Concentrate on that fact, regardless of how slow or fast, how poorly or well things seem to be going. If you are moving forward, you are succeeding.

Success is a marathon of consistency, walked out one day at a time.

Success is likened to a deep pit, you have to jump in to get it, then you'll need a ladder of grace to climb out to enjoy it.

Perhaps success is best defined as maximizing the ratio of your rear wheel horsepower to your engine horsepower. Higher %, happier times.

Success is not a summit to climb, It is an equilibrium where work and life are balanced

In the success equation, subtraction comes before multiplication or addition. You must sow before you can reap a harvest.

Feedback is to success like rest is to the body.

Success Orientation is like falling into a deep cave. It is not about how you climb out of the cave. Success Orientation is whether you climb out or not.

Success is three parts hard work and one part serendipity; this serendipity is a direct result of the other three parts of hard work.

Success has no idle hands; affords no legs at rest.

If you create, you achieve half your success. The other half comes when your creation spawns its own demand.

As life begins with a tiny little thing, success begins with tiny little steps forward.

Success demands that you do EXTRA after the ORDINARY has failed.

Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil. J.Paul Getty

Success can be measured in terms of smiles and the speed of the initial "mad rush" to be the first in line.

Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows.

A person's "Success Mechanism" is actually triggered or activated by goals. For example if a business person has set a goal to enroll one new client each week, his or her commitment to achieving that goal will tend to make him or her work harder, or go the "extra mile" in an effort to meet that commitment.

Things that look like an 'overnight success' typically are not.

A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Success in work comes quickly in this human world.

Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.

When performance exceeds ambition, the overlap is called success.

Success is how you collect your minutes.

Success is an absurd, erratic thing. She arrives when one least expects her and after she has come may depart again almost because of a whim.

The success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.

Success is not a resting-place - it is a launching pad.

Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.

Success is not a resting-place – it is a launching pad.

Success isn’t overnight. It’s when everyday you get a little better than the day before. It all adds up.

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.

Success comes from a constant focus on renewal.

Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed.

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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.