Do you really want to succeed in business or your personal life, then you need the quality of being persistent. Why?
Because the most important quality of success is self-discipline. Self-discipline is having the ability within yourself, based on your strength of character and willpower, to do what ever it takes and to do what you have to do when you have to do it, whether you feel like it or not. Being persistent gives you the ability to follow through on a resolution after the enthusiasm with which the resolution was made has passed.
Persistence provides you with self-discipline when the going gets tough.
Persistence is self-discipline in action. Persistence is the great measure of individual human character. Your persistence is, in fact, the true measure of your belief in yourself and your ability to succeed. Each time that you persist in the face of adversity and disappointment, you build the habit of persistence. You build pride, power, and self-esteem in your character and your personality. You become stronger and more resolute. By persisting, you become more self-disciplined. You develop within yourself the iron quality of success, the one quality that will carry you forward and over any obstacle that life can throw in your path.
So why is it sometimes so difficult to be persistent?
Your Greatness is my passion
Christina Aros
source: Brian Tracy