Quotes About Persistence

The used key is always bright.

Finding myself to exist in the world, I believe i shall, in some shape or other, always exist.

I experienced, too, the truth of the observation, "that after getting the first hundred pound, it is more easy to get the second," money itself being of a prolific nature.

Melakukan yang terbaik lebih baik daripada mengucapkan yang terbaik

All things are easy to industry, All things are difficult to sloth.

And like him who, having a garden to weed, does not attempt to eradicate all the bad herbs at once, which would exceed his reach and his strength, but works on one of the beds at a time, and, having accomplish'd the first, proceeds to a second...

The punches you miss are the ones that wear you out. —Boxing trainer Angelo Dundee

Lincoln had faith in time, and time has justified his faith.

The major lesson Tiggers need to learn is that if they don't control their impulses, their impulses will control them. No matter how much they do, Tiggers are never satisfied because they don't know the feeling of accomplishment that eventually comes when one persistently applies one's will to the attaining of non-immediately-reachable goals.

The athletic sort of Backson - one of the many common varieties - is concerned with physical fitness, he says. But for some reason, he sees it as something that has to be pounded in from the outside, rather than built up from the inside. Therefore, he confuses exercise with work. He works when he works, works when he exercises, and, more often than not, works when he plays. Work, work, work.

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.

A meeting from 3 years ago led to an opportunity this month. A failed feature pitch from 2 years ago recently found new life in a different medium. A script I couldn't sell led to me working in animation. Writing is a long hustle, I'm saying, and "No," sometimes means, "Not now.

Scholarship, far from leading inexorably to a profession, may in fact preclude it. For it does not permit you to abandon it.

Mistakes can be like ice. If we resist them, we may keep on slipping into a posture of defeat. If we include mistakes in our definition of performance, we are likely to glide through them and appreciate the beauty of the longer run.

And, having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense.

We receive by faith and we keep it by faith.

How do we wait? The Bible says very clearly that we are to be still.

Our attitude needs to be like Elisha's: "I'm not staying around here. I'm going beyond here to my double portion!

I demand a lot from myself and reflect this attitude upon others: I consider it to be an important quality for a leader. I also think it is impossible to achieve success without persistence.

I have to believe that if I keep doing what I'm doing, the results will reflect that, and I'll give myself plenty more opportunities to win.

This was possible only by dint of extended periods of frequently quite painful reflection and digestion.

Reform is not a one-night stand.

Now my goal is to be strong. I get two classes in a week, and they'll be either barre or reformer Pilates.

In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.