Quotes About Persistence

No one attains perfection by merely giving up work.

Be patient, if thou wouldst thy ends accomplish; for like patience is there no appliance effective of success, producing certainly abundant fruit of actions, never damped by failure, conquering all impediments.

Success is like a lovely woman, wooed by many men, but folded in the arms of him alone who, free from over-zeal, firmly persists and calmly perseveres.

I've wandered over many lands, and reaped withal no fruit, I've laid my pride of rank aside, and pressed my baffled suit, At stranger boards, like shameless crow, I've eaten bitter bread, But fierce Desire, that raging fire, still clamours to be fed.

Cowards shrink from toil and peril, Vulgar souls attempt and fail; Men of mettle, nothing daunted, Persevere till they prevail.

A spiritual tradition is not a shallow stream in which one can wet one's feet and then beat a quick retreat to the shore. It is a mighty, tumultuous river which would rush through the entire landscape of one's life, and if one truly wishes to travel on it, one must be courageous enough to launch one's boat and head out for the depths.

When you plant seeds in the garden, you don't dig them up every day to see if they have sprouted yet. You simply water them and clear away the weeds; you know that the seeds will grow in time. Similarly, just do your daily practice and cultivate a kind heart. Abandon impatience and instead be content creating the causes for goodness; the results will come when they're ready.

Let us run with endurance the race that is set before us .

The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

The art of living is simply getting up after you've been knocked down.

Never too old, never too sick, never too bad to start again.

Ama sözlerin bir anlam?, bir de?eri vard? hala. Onlar, -sözler, anlamlar?,- kolay kolay ölmüyor.

There we go, that's it. I just hold my hand in this position for the next couple of hours.

Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

When you are not practicing, remember, someone somewhere is practicing, and when you meet him he will win.

That week we tried everything to bury our heads in the sand. But the problem remains the same world over; the sand is never quite deep enough.

If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.

I had a couple of movies that I was passionately involved with that I could never get made. 'Richard Pryor ' I wrote for - gosh - over a year. That was close to getting made for two-and-a-half years after that. We're still pushing it, you know. It is weird. Suddenly you wake up and it's like, 'God, five years have gone by.'

Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.

The victory comes in the daily discipline.

But taking wrong trains, encountering unexpected delays, and suffering occasional mechanical breakdowns are inevitable to any journey really worth taking. One learns to get oneself turned around and headed the right way.

If you can't learn to do something well, learn to enjoy doing it badly.

meditating on what God has said until I can see it and run with it.

If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything