Quotes About Persistence

Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success.

In the digital age of 'overnight' success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.

What I've learned from running is that the time to push hard is when you're hurting like crazy and you want to give up. Success is often just around the corner.

Invention is often more about endurance and patient observation than brainwaves.

Stamina and determination along with creativity are needed in overcoming seemingly impossible difficulties in research and other challenges in life.

My tale is one of not being brilliant. I wasn't even trained as an engineer or scientist. I did, however, have the bloody-mindedness not to follow convention, to challenge experts and to ignore Doubting Thomases. I am also someone who is prepared to slog through prototype after prototype searching for the breakthrough. If a slow starter like me could succeed, surely this might encourage others.

I needed a day job that required me mostly to use my mind and hands, because my heart and soul belonged to my dreams.

He forced his mind to picture a brick wall, to feel a brick wall, smell a brick wall, become a brick wall. He lost all sense of time, but the bricks stood out. He heard the voices questioning him, but he turned their sounds to bricks for his wall.

If you don´t try, you don´t get. "Exactly,

You can spit until you're dry, but you'll never make a lake

Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

No matter how often I pray, how many retreats I make, or how hard I try, I still sin. It is something that I bump up against daily.

It doesn't matter how you travel it, it's the same road. It doesn't get any easier when you get bigger, it gets harder. And it will kill you if you let it.

The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.

The challenge is to always improve, to always get better, even when you are the best. Especially when you are the best.

El desafío consiste en mejorar siempre, en avanzar siempre, incluso cuando eres el mejor Especialmente cuando eres el mejor.

The challenge is to always improve, to always get better, even when you are the best. Especially when you are the best. Henry

The fight is won or lost,' says Muhammad Ali, 'far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, well before I dance under the lights.

may have conquered Santa Anna," Nancy Lea was fond of telling him, "but you will never conquer me.

He ran with a staggering gate the last few feet and managed to grab the quarterdeck

My advice to an aspiring actor would be to never stop learning or working for what you want. Nothing comes easy, ever, if you want something, you have to work for it. By working for it I mean work on your craft, learn from people who have something to teach. It's just like anything else, practice makes perfect.

I was ruled by two passions: clock and crime.

persistence is likely linked to high dopamine, so the higher the dopamine levels, the more you are likely to soldier on through adversity to achieve a particular goal.

We are all of us failures, at least, the best of us are.