Quotes About Persistence

If you stop dreaming, you get complacent, and complacency never changes the world. On

Rich nations are rich largely because they managed to develop inclusive institutions at some point during the past three hundred years. These institutions have persisted through a process of virtuous circles. Even if inclusive only in a limited sense to begin with, and sometimes fragile, they generated dynamics that would create a process of positive feedback, gradually increasing their inclusiveness.

Ever hear of the phrase, Banging you're head on a brick wall?" Ah, but you forget, Darren, vampires can break brick walls with their heads.

Never let your obstacles become more important than your goal.

Because I'm going to make you understand the family motto: Never let your obstacles become more important than your goal.

On her walls she'd posted the family slogan: Never let your obstacles become more important than your goal. The goals: go to class, get your grades up, graduate, stay out of jail, survive.

With his marine clocks, John Harrison tested the waters of space-time. He succeeded, against all odds, in using the fourth—temporal—dimension to link points on the three-dimensional globe. He wrested the world's whereabouts from the stars, and locked the secret in a pocket watch.

In the wake of the Longitude Act, the concept of "discovering the longitude" became a synonym for attempting the impossible.

I haven't been able to slam-dunk the basketball for the past five years. Or, for the thirty-eight years before that, either.

Crabgrass can grow on bowling balls in airless rooms, and there is no known way to kill it that does not involve nuclear weapons.

When the odds seem insurmountable and it seems impossible to overcome them, most people will give up.The true heroes in this world are those who don't give up in these times when things seem impossible to do.

No one ever excused his way to success.

Un beneficio de las oraciones que tardan en ser contestadas es la purificación de los motivos. Cuanto más se calienten nuestros sueños en las llamas de la frustración, más se quemarán las impurezas de nuestros motivos.

When a training scenario does not go the way you wanted it to, then do it again, but do not ever think you are dead in an exercise.

Do not expect the combat fairy to come bonk you with the combat wand and suddenly make you capable of doing things that you never rehearsed before. It will not happen.

Dark clouds may hang on me sometimes, but I'll work it out...

I will go in this way And find my own way out

If you will do the things others won't do then some day you will have the life others won't have.

Businesses and entrepreneurs have become experts at microwaving rather than Crock-Potting their business plan. They are so worried about the moment, Q1 or Q2, that they lose their vision and their soul. They trade real, rich, abiding, deep success for the momentary win and then are constantly having to start over. Have a long-term vision and execute it. As the billionaire advised me, slow and steady wins the race.

Dreaming also has a negative connotation as well. Some people dream and stop there. They never do anything about making their dreams come true.

In studying successful people, the author discovered that 15 percent of success could be attributed to training and education, while 85 percent was attributed to attitude, perseverance, diligence, and vision.

Wealth-building is a crockpot, not a microwave.

David A. Adler

Go get yourself a nice cup of tea while Windows copies half a million files to your hard disk and reboots a few times.