Quotes About Persistence

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The secret of spiritual success is a hunger that persists…It is an awful condition to be satisfied with one's spiritual attainments…God was and is looking for hungry, thirsty people.

If it's flipping hamburgers at McDonald's, be the best hamburger flipper in the world. Whatever it is you do you have to master your craft.

If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.

It is impossible, but that's what makes it a worthy challenge.

Cadere non è un fallimento. Il fallimento è rimanere dove si è caduti.

the greatest achievements take the deepest patience and the longest time.

I can't wring blood from a stone.

Success is 99 percent failure.

There is a Japanese proverb that literally goes 'Raise the sail with your stronger hand ' meaning you must go after the opportunities that arise in life that you are best equipped to do.

Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.

Let others say what they will of the efficacy of prayer, I believe in it, and I shall pray. Thank God! Yes, I shall always pray,

It's the way of the lay, not the size of the prize.

Water takes whatever shape it finds itself in. It does not judge, it does not complain, it does not try to change things. It is the source of patience. Given time it can wear away stone. Be like water.

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There is nothing in this world which a resolute man, who exerts himself, cannot attain.

Small steps work—grandiose goals don't.

Girl don't you know yet that you don't never give up on love? Don't you know you has in you the pulse of winds? The noise of dragonflies?

No. Don't never go looking for love girl. Just wait. It'll come. Like the rain fallin' from the heaven, it'll come. Just don't never give up on love.

Nothing was easy, and sometimes she failed, and sometimes she thought that the fairy stories were right, that there must indeed be easier ways of living happily ever after; but defeat is a poor ending to any tale, so she kept trying.

She doesn't understand that doors, walls, fences, ceilings - they're helpless to keep out what determinedly desires to get in.

Time crawled past on leaden hands and knees.

Many people think they want things, but they don't really have the strength, the discipline. They are weak. I believe that you get what you want if you want it badly enough.

Getting ahead in a difficult profession -- singing, acting, writing, whatever -- requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows and unfair reversals. When I think back to those first couple of years in Rome, those endless rejections, without a glimmer of encouragement from anyone, all those failed screen tests, and yet I never let my desire slide away from me, my belief in myself and what I felt I could achieve.