I am looking for a quote from a notable person that to some extent has
the following theme; "Winning to a great extend is a measure of
perserverance when all others have given up."  I would love to see the
real quote and the author.

Hello, and thanks for asking. First of all in my search I spelled the
words "perseverance" and "extent" and hope that's correct. Even when I
didn't find the exact phrase mentioned, I came across the following
quotations:

"Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The
extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach
is the secret of winning."
Denis Waitley, American Author

"Success in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration
and
perseverance."
C. W. Wendte

"Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th."
Julie Andrews, British Singer, Actress

"With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are
attainable."
Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton

"Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long
enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake somebody."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American Poet

"I do not think that there 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, American Industrialist

"Perseverance and audacity generally win!"
Madame Dorothé Deluzy, French Actress

"The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the
result of steady accretion... It is the man who carefully advances
step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider -- and
progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation --
persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his
thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree."
Alexander Graham Bell

Hope this helped!

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Request for Answer Clarification by flip-ga on 28 May 2002 08:28 PDT

Still looking for the actual quote and author...

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Clarification of Answer by j_philipp-ga on 28 May 2002 13:28 PDT

I'm sorry, I did another extended search and couldn't come up with
anything closely enough resembling your phrase. Maybe Karl Pilsl
indeed originated the quote, as a commentor suggested, or maybe it's
just such a common idea that it can't be traced back to anyone in
particular. In any case, I hope the quotations I provided to you on
the topics of success, perseverance & winning were of some help or
inspiration.

Thank you for using Google Answers and I hope you're not disappointed.

So far this is equivelant to the searches I did on the Internet.  The
follow up answer about it possibly being a german language quote is
very helpful.

Hi

I did a little research on German websites and found a quote wich is
amlost exactly what you're looking for - but I found it only in
German...
it reads:
"Erfolg hängt weitgehend davon ab, ob du durchhältst, nachdem andere
schon aufgegeben haben."
which I would translate to
"Success depends to a large extent on whether you keep up (persevere?)
while others have already given up"

I found this quote on ( http://www.aphorismen.de ) and there it states
that it was taken from a book called "Strategie 2000 - Starke Worte
für starke Zeiten" published by Millennium Vision Medien GmbH,
http://www.millenniumvision.com ). On that page, I found the author to
be an Austro-American Economy Journalist, Karl Pilsl.

I searched the web for the English quote, too, but didn't find
something similar. Perhaps that might help you or someone else to find
the quote in English...


Search Strategy

"Success depends to a large extent on"
"success to a large extent depends "

and the same with "Winning", "Achievement", "Prosperity"

This may explain why I have had a difficult time finding the quote. 
It was posted on the blackboard of a Charleston eating establishment
on King Street over this last weekend.  If I remember correctly the
name they attributed it to was not Karl Pilsl but we seem to be
getting closer to the answer.  Thanks for the effort and I will keep
looking but this may be the origin of it.