Quotes About Persistence

Für jeden von uns gibt es etwas ganz Besonderes, das sich ihm nur in einem bestimmten Augenblick als schwache kleine Flamme darbietet. Einige achtsame, vom Glück begünstigte Menschen hegen diese Flamme, bis sie groß genug ist, um ihnen wie eine Fackel den Lebensweg zu erhellen. Erlischt diese Flamme jedoch, können wir sie nie wieder entzünden.

There's nothing worth getting in this world that you can get easily. ...But, when you put in that much time and effort, if you do achieve that difficult thing it becomes the cream of your life.

I've never liked giving up on a book once I've started it. I always hold out hope that there will be some riveting development toward the end, though the chances of that are pretty slim.

I trudged along through each day in its turn, looking up only rarely, eyes locked on the endless swamp that lay before me, planting my right foot, raising my left, planting my left food, raising my right, never sure where I was, never sure I was headed in the right direction, knowing only that I had to keep moving, one step at a time.

Nobody ever recommended or even desired that I be a novelist - in fact, some tried to stop me. I had the idea to be one, and that's what I did.

Deal with the brutal facts of your current reality—while maintaining absolute faith that you'll prevail.

Without short-term wins, too many people give up or actively join the ranks of those people who have been resisting change.

Harvey Araton

One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.

If you are persistent, you will get it. If you are consistent, you will keep it.

My process is thinking, thinking and thinking - thinking about my stories for a long time.

Ever forward, my darling wind.

So if fitness is about persistence, then the apropos question is, The persistence of what?

I was trying my best to straighten out my life, but I always ended up in the middle of some festive waste of time.

But Jesus always leaves the ninety-nine to chase after the one. He always searches for the one lost coin.

and he has never given up his conviction that if you just try all the doors one of them is bound to be the Door into Summer. You know, I think he is right.

IT may perhaps be thought that I exhibit something of the brazen-facedness of a hardened offender in venturing once more

barometer of success in later life is not that they always win, but how they deal with failure. An ability to pick themselves up when they fall, retaining their optimism and sense of self, is a far greater predictor of future success than class position in Year 3.

Now you go out there, do your best, and don't get caught up in everyone else's nonsense. It'll turn out fine, I promise you.

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going

While they were saying it couldn't be done, it was done.

You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere, and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost. What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.