The following quotes employ Optimal Thinking, the language of our best self. Optimal Thinking empowers us to pursue the best ends by the best means, and gives us the best chance of achieving everything we want.
“It’s not how low you fall, but how quickly and often you optimize that counts.”
Rosalene Glickman, Ph.D., Optimal Thinking Life and Executive Coach
“My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.”
Bjorn Borg
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.”
Calvin Coolidge
“Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.”
Napoleon Hill
“The most essential factor is persistence – the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.”
James Whitcomb Riley
“The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to the job.”
Napoleon Hill
“You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.”
Babe Ruth
“In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins – not through strength, but through persistence.”
Buddha
“I do not think they is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.”
John D. Rockefeller
“History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeat.”
B. C. Forbes
“Success has a price tag on it, and the tag reads courage, determination, discipline, risk taking, perseverance, and consistency – doing the right things for the right reasons and not just when we feel like it.”
James M. Meston
“This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The slogan ‘press on’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.”
Calvin Coolidge
“Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.”
Dale Carnegie
“Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.”
Earl Nightingale
“You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.”
Marina Wright Edelman
“I do the very best I know how, the very best I can and I mean to keep doing so until the end.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Give the world the best you have and you may get hurt. Give the world your best anyway.”
Mother Theresa
“Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out.”
Art Linkletter
“Full effort is full victory.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“If you are doing all you can to the fullest of your ability as well as you can, there is nothing else that is asked of a soul.”
Gary Zukav, Best-selling author
“Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it!”
Winston Churchill
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
Confucius










