Quotes About Persistence

Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.

Success will never be a big step in the future, success is a small step taken just now.

Jonathan Allen

The minute I stopped trying to find the right girl, and started trying to become the right guy...the girl came.

Everything you want in life has teeth.

Licitis perimus omnes

Bad guys are supposed to lose. I change that. I win

It was almost impossible to discourage him," Joe Martin said. "He was easily the hardest worker of any kid I ever taught.

For Ali, it was the beginning of a battle to overcome the dyslexia and poor reading skills that had hampered him since childhood.

searching the sky from high above to below the horizon, gradually working around until he reached the right and the rear.

It took hours to turn the clock back 30 seconds.

The effectance motive helps explain the progress principle: We get more pleasure from making progress toward our goals than we do from achieving them because, as Shakespeare said, "Joy's soul lies in the doing.

Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing."4

No matter what gifts you have, practice is the only way to get better at anything. "If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery it would not seem so wonderful at all" - Michael Angelo

The crossroads is a practice room. The devil to be dealt with is practice. Wynton Marsalis calls it "tackling the monster.

We're all gonna die trying to get it right, so aim high, and aim true. —Vance Joy

You come face to face with love, and before the sun sets, you've become someone you didn't used to be. It makes the old new. Makes dead things live. Love makes you into something better. It's the reason a wolf would chase a crow, even knowing he can't fly... And she don't ever need to touch the ground. Love sends a man half way around the world... Just for the hope of catching it.

There's no learning without trying lots of ideas and failing lots of times.

If you couldn't get the outcome you wanted, torture 'em with process.

Sometimes things don't fall into place just because you do a good job.

You set extremely high standards for yourself, and when you succeed, you ignore the success and immediately raise your standards. But when you fail, you won't let go of it. You keep punishing yourself, telling yourself you're worthless.

sidewalk, waited until the butt cooled, and

Grumbling, grimacing, and mumbled curses peak during the muddled middle of murder investigations, when promising leads break their promises.

Assholes are like weeds, a bitch to get rid of and when you do another one grows back in its place.