Quotes About Persistence

It's easier to keep up than to catch up...

Studies show that people tend to persevere longer with problems they've been told are difficult as opposed to easy.

day three days a week for six weeks

Many assume that offering a reward will help people to jump-start a healthy habit, which will then persist after the reward fades away. Not so. Often, as soon as the reward stops (and sometimes before it stops), the behavior stops.

By doing a little bit each day you can get a lot accomplished

One of my most helpful Secrets of Adulthood is "What I do every day matters more than what I do once in a while.

I've noticed that some people are serial goal setters, rather than habit formers.

Almost always, if I make a commitment, I can stick to it, even without outside help.

The single most important element in developing an expertise is your willingness to practice

Hiçbir ÅŸey, asla baÅŸlamayan bir görevden daha yorucu deÄŸildir.

A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules."—Anthony Trollope

It's fun to fail, I kept repeating. It's part of being ambitious; it's part of being creative. If something is worth doing, it's worth doing badly.

As novelist Anthony Trollope observed, "A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.

Sometimes I succeed, sometimes I fail, but everyday is a clean state and a fresh opportunity.

it's a Secret of Adulthood: things often get harder before they get easier—but I'd started.

He that stumbles, and does not quite fall, gains a step.

is surprising how soon a desire will die of inanition if it be never fed.

We set out to be wrecked.

If you're doing something that you don't enjoy and you don't have the gratification of success, failure is particularly painful. But doing what you love is itself the reward.

Arranging to Fail Loophole:

What you do every day matters more than what you do once in a while

In other words, even though one coin certainly isn't sufficient to make a man rich, a man only becomes rich by adding one coin after another.

What you do every day matters more than what you do once in a while.        You

a Secret of Adulthood: things often get harder before they get easier—but