Quotes About Persistence

Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.

No problem can stand the assault of sustained thinking.

The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

May her moccasins make tracks in many snows that are yet to come

I've finished running from you, Redd. It's time for you to run." --Alyss

Most of life is unbearable. It's unbearable but we bear it

Wanting to be a movie star....answering an ad at ten or eleven. You made your mother drive you to Hollywood.

Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.

After about a year, though, he concluded that the amount of time he was spending practicing the accordion was impinging on his chess studies. "I did fairly well on it for a while," Bobby said, looking back, "but chess had more attraction and the accordion was pushed aside.

The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.

If you're going to succeed, you've got to be like one of those punch-drunk fighters in the old Warner Bros. boxing pictures: too stupid to fall down, you just keep slugging and stay on your feet.

Getting up, going to bed, preparing food, eating food--we futile creatures must struggle all the time. Nothing that we need comes to us; we must reach for everything.

Start with the difficult and when it gets easy, everything else is easier.

I'm here, Satan," he said. "I can't see you, and maybe you can move faster than I can, but I'm still here, and by the grace of God and the power of the Holy Spirit I intend to be a thorn in your side until one of us has had enough!

I will, however, establish that success in love, as in all other aspects of life, belongs, as a rule, to the persistent and fiber man. Chaucer had reason to make the Old Bath confess: 'The truth is, more or less, we always succumb to attention and perseverance'.

Strong people are made by opposition like kites that go up against the wind.

There are no shortcuts in life - only those we imagine.

once we get it, we lose it and start looking for it all over again. That's why it's called a practice. You never master it.

Business is like riding a bicycle. Either you keep moving or you fall down.

Keep scribbling! Something will happen.

Everything comes to him who waits but a loaned book.

You can never escape me. Bullets don't harm me. Nothing harms me. But I know pain. I KNOW pain. Sometimes I share it. With someone like you.

the only thing to do is simply continue is that simple yes, it is simple because it is the only thing to do can you do it yes, you can because it is the only thing to do

Prac­tice doesn't make per­fect. It makes bet­ter.