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Quotes About Persistence

According to the ancient Chinese proverb, A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
~ John F. Kennedy
The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast, and you miss all you are traveling for.
~ Louis L'Amour
Even if you can't just snap your fingers and make a dream come true, you can travel in the direction of your dream, every single day and you can shorten the distance between the two of you.
~ Douglas Pagels
The big rewards come to those who travel the second, undemanded mile.
~ Bruce Barton
The gulls who scorn perfection for the sake of travel go nowhere, slowly. Those who put aside travel for the sake of perfection go anywhere, instantly.
~ Richard Bach
The secret of all those who make discoveries is that they regard nothing as impossible.
~ Justus von Liebig
The perfect journey is never finished, the goal is always just across the next river, round the shoulder of the next mountain. There is always one more track to follow, one more mirage to explore.
~ Rosita Forbes
A true journey, no matter how long the travel takes, has no end.
~ William Least Heat-Moon
Whither will my path yet lead me? This path is stupid, it goes in spirals, perhaps in circles, but whichever way it goes, I will follow it.
~ Hermann Hesse, Siddharta
I believe the adventure game genre will never die any more than any type of storytelling would ever die.
~ Roberta Williams
Does that mean," asked Mack, "that all roads will lead to you?" "Not at all," smiled Jesus..."Most roads don't lead anywhere. What it does mean is that I will travel any road to find you.
~ William P. Young
Strength and struggle travel together.
~ Spencer W. Kimball
You know that it never has been easy Whether you do or do not resign Whether you travel the breadth of the extremities Or stick to some straighter line.
~ Joni Mitchell
Who was it said that you never get to a place until a day after you come, nor leave it until a day after you go?
~ Sarah Orne Jewett
I travel, always arriving in the same place.
~ Dejan Stojanovic, The Shape
Let our road be long, let it be very long, let it be very very long and in fact let our road be infinite! Travel means flow, flow means life!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Success is not the destination; it's a way to travel.
~ Denis Waitley
The road you travel might horribly get narrower; do not panic! Keep your spirits high; the road will get wider!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
~ Lao Tzu
Once you plant seeds of success, your tree will bear fierce fruit.
~ Tyra Banks
One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
~ Thomas Fuller
I think that if you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up.
~ Mary Cassatt
Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
~ Audre Lorde
However long it stays in the river the tree-trunk will never turn into a crocodile.
~ Ousmane Sembene