Quotes About Persistence

Caught in my struggle for higher achievements, And my search for love that don't seem to cease.

In my kingdom," as the Red Queen tells Alice in Wonderland, "you have to run as fast as you can just to stay in the same place." No one standing still can triumph, no matter how well constituted.

Life is indistinguishable from effortful maintenance

The fact that a symphony ends does not mean it was not worth listening to.

Maybe you feel a bit stupid about it, but you do it anyway. And you do the same thing tomorrow, and the next day, and the next. And, with each day, your baseline of comparison gets a little higher, and that's magic. That's compound interest. Do that for three years and your life will be entirely different

Finished beats perfect.

And I have learned through painful experience that nothing is going so badly that it can't be made worse.

He whose life has a why can bear almost any how.

He whose life has a why can bear almost any how."61

The successful among us delay gratification and bargain with the future.

Though trained as a behaviourist, he was powerfully drawn to psychoanalysis with its focus on dreams, archetypes, the persistence of childhood conflicts in the adult, and the role of defences and rationalization in everyday life.

If you're going to insist on bending the world

Living things die, after all, without attention. Life is indistinguishable from effortful maintenance.

Being is all the more "natural" the longer it has lasted.

Jordan B. Peterson

All these heroes act out what was perhaps the greatest discovery ever made by man's primordial ancestors: if you have the vision and the courage (and a good stout stick, when necessary), you can chase away the worst of snakes.

noted, "He whose life has a why can bear almost any how."61

Imagine that you are very good at some, middling at others, and terrible at the remainder. Perhaps that's how it should be. You might object: I should be winning at everything! But winning at everything might only mean that you're not doing anything new or difficult. You might be winning but you're not growing, and growing might be the most important form of winning. Should victory in the present always take precedence over trajectory across time?

I will be your worst nightmare," was his phrase of choice, in such situations. I have wished intensely that I could say something like that, after encountering unnecessary bureaucratic obstacles, but it's generally best to let such things go.

you have to run as fast as you can just to stay in the same place." No one standing still can triumph, no matter how well constituted.

I will try to want whatever it is that would make my life better—whatever that might be—and I will start working on it now.

you have to run as fast as you can just to stay in the same place.

If you want to be rich, never give up. People tend to give up. If you have persistence, you will come out ahead of most people. More importantly, you will learn. When you do something, you might fail. But that's not because you're a failure. It's because you have not learnt enough. Do it differently each time. One day, you will do it right. Failure is your friend.

contrary to previous assumptions, young men and women who possess the collective social graces of a herd of sex-crazed water buffalo and have an intelligence quotient in the range of Forrest Gump on three hits of acid, can be taught to sound like Wall Street wizards, as long as you write every last word down for them and then keep drilling it into their heads again and again—every day, twice a day—for a year straight.