Quotes About Persistence

No, indeed. I'm an optimist. Or is it called crazy when a person keeps doing the same thing and expecting a different outcome?

It seemed doubts popped up like dandelions, unwelcome but hardy.

Persistence can only break the hearts of those we love and of ourselves as well, not to mention the purse of society that should be spent for the care of others who have not yet lived their allotted time.

Nature will always win in the end, as it must if our species is to survive.

The lesson is never learned—there will always be those who persist in seeking the Fountain of Youth, or at least delaying what is irrevocably ordained.

You can make it all right if you will only be satisfied to remain small,' I told myself. I had to keep saying it over and over to myself. 'Be little. Don't try to be big. Work under the guns. Be a little worm in the fair apple of life.' I got all of these sayings at my tongue's end, used to go through the streets of Chicago muttering them to myself.

Wait and wait. Most people's lives are spent waiting.

Having made a few bicycles in factories, having written some thousands of rather senseless advertisements, having rubbed affectionately the legs of a few race horses, having tried blunderingly to love a few women and having written a few novels that did not satisfy me or anyone else, having done these few things, could I begin now to think of myself as tired out and done for? Because my own hands had for the most part served me so badly could I let them lie beside me in idleness?

Most of us live our lives like toads, sitting perfectly still, under a plantain leaf. We are waiting for a fly to come our way. When it comes out darts the tongue. We nab it. That is all. We eat it.

My family's lineage is five generations of artists who never made it.

It's only the last turn of a bolt that tightens it – the rest it's just movement.

the decision to move forward—despite the sheer improbability of success—was not an elective one; it was a matter of necessity.

Anything you think of doing, however insignificant, should be done immediately. Spur yourself on and carry it through without becoming discouraged. If this becomes an ingrained habit, things you thought were impossible will become possible, and closed doors will open, as you will discover in many ways.

We all have unlimited shortcomings. Yet one way of seeing things is to consider our lives as a time frame that allows us continually to work at changing our weaknesses into strengths. This, I must say, is an intriguing task.

Our predecessors overcame many troubles and much suffering, but each time got back up stronger than before.

stand bustle or hustle, but she could only operate when things were

My goal was not to be famous or rich but to be good at what I did. And that required going to New York and studying and working in the theater.

Motivation is like fire—unless you keep adding fuel to it, it dies. Your fuel is your belief in your inner values.

SUCCESS does not mean an absence of problems, it is overcoming problems. Success is not measured by how high we go up in life, but how many times we bounce back when we fall down.

Progressive' means that success is a journey, not a destination. It's an ongoing process. We never arrive.

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you will be doomed if you don't try. – Beverley Sills

As a young cartoonist, Walt Disney faced many rejections from newspaper editors who said he had no talent. One day a minister at a church hired him to draw some cartoons. Disney was working out of a small rodent-infested shed near the church. Seeing a small mouse inspired him to draw a new cartoon. That was the start of Mickey Mouse.

After every setback, ask yourself: What did I learn from this experience? Only then will you be able to turn a stumbling block into a stepping stone.

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor. – Vince Lombardi