Quotes About Persistence

Obsession beats talent and degrees every single time

What the hell were the odds of attracting two stalkers within a year? Was it my aftershave?

He continued only so far as the chain of

The quickest way to reach the point of success is to follow a straight line that carves through failure.

I knew how to block out my issues in a sprint, but in marathons I ran out of gas. Consistency became a critical problem. On days that I was inspired, I was unstoppable. But other days I would play bad chess. The time had come for me to learn the science of long-term, healthy, self-sustaining peak performance.

So if you think that when you are better, it means that you can smash ahead and mate the guy, you are wrong, that is not what better means. What better means is that your position has the potential, if played correctly, to turn out well. So do not think that when you are better and when you are attacking that you can just force mate. That is not what it is about. Often the way to play best, the way to play within the position, is to maintain it.

Not only we have to be good at waiting, we have to love it. Because waiting is not waiting, it is life.

Great ones are willing to get burned time and again as they sharpen their swords in the fire.

It's one thing to decide what you want. It's quite another to know how to get it. William doesn't know how, but he is trying.

You picked a man who can read tax code and date a celibate for two years. That's some serious patience. I have zero doubt in my ability to wait you out. I have zero doubt that you're meant to be my girl.

After breakfast I went back to bed, but for the longest time, I could not sleep. I stared at Clarice's shams and prayed and prayed and prayed. I had been raised to believe that prayer could move mountains, if only you had faith the size of a mustard seed. "Mountains be damned," I whispered to God. "I need a body moved.

It's like Paul on the road to Damascus. Here's this anal-retentive control freak who likes to run around and persecute Christians. So God knocks him down and blinds him and reams him out. So he stops persecuting Christians. But—go read him. He was still an anal-retentive control freak.

I held my ground, because prey retreats, and hunger follows anything that runs.

Those who stand strong will stand forever.

The irony of their impatience is that only by learning to wait, and by a willingness to accept the bad with the good, do we usually attain those things that are truly worthwhile.

True purity, however, is a direction, a persistent, determined pursuit of righteousness. This direction starts in the heart, and we express it in a lifestyle that flees opportunities for compromise.

I was just saying, "Now I lay me," when I was seized by a determination to try yet once more, so that no one of the prophets of evil I had left behind me could say, "I told you so.

being stubborn is not a bad thing, it shows determination.

insistence that

One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast withers as rapidly; and that which grows slow endures.

There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.

The temptation to just crawl up onto the bank and lie there in a huddled mass of misery was almost overwhelming, but some part of her, as she observed with a certain dazed detachment, was too pigheaded to give up. No,she would plod on likely to the ends of the earth, slipping and sliding, gasping and groaning, until either the river won or she did.Had she been inclined to wager, she would have bet on the river.

So, why do you write these strong female characters? Because you're still asking me that question.

If you can't run, you crawl. If you can't crawl-- you find someone to carry you.