Quotes About Persistence

Today it is given in the textbooks as an example which young students dispose of in twenty minutes or less. Yet it held Newton up for twenty years. He finally solved it, of course

Any impatient student of mathematics or science or engineering who is irked by having algebraic symbolism thrust on him should try to get on without it for a week.

Pain is temporary. It may last for a minute, or an hour or a day, or even a year. But eventually, it will subside. And something else take its place. If I quit, however, it will last forever.

If you can look up, you can get up.

It's not easy, but it's simple.

The only way to get out of mediocrity is to keep shooting for excellence.

When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you'll be successful

I will never change

Survival is not enough. Sardine

Pick yourself up and fight another day" is as good a motto as any, in my experience.

Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.

Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to nurture it in solitude and to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow talent to the dark place where it leads.

Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.

Practice makes perfect.

Your love for her belongs to you. It's yours. Even if she refuses it, she cannot change it. She isn't benefiting from it, thats all. What you give, Momo, is yours forever. What you keep is lost for all time!"-Monsieur Ibrahim

Was bleibt? Nichts als die Qual, die Qual überlebt zu haben

Part of being a big winner is the ability to be a big loser. There is no paradox involved. It is a distinctly Harvard thing to be able to turn any defeat into victory

To assure good timing we need right decisions, patience and persistence. Good timing needs willpower to steer clear of confusion, disorder and … discontent. We need not blame ourselves for possible "bad" timing later on. ( "Wrong time. Wrong place." )

MOVING TOWARD MASTERY Don't Stop Yourself Honor How You Learn Practice

It was like opening a sealed jar with a tight lid. You have to apply heat, push your breasts aside, and lean your weight into it, wondering the whole time if it's stuck for good, until suddenly there's movement, the suction releases, and the lid comes off in your hand.

The journey is suppose to go on until you meet yourself, Lizabeth said. It could be very long.

Hope is easy, but it catches no prey.

The only failure is not to try, and I've never stopped trying.