Quotes About Persistence

I'm going to have to be content with doing

Someone ought to glue his shoes to the floor to keep him where he

How far we've come, Jeff," Brian whispered to the cold, wet streets. "How far the geeky boys have come.

Successful people will always have more failure stories than success to tell.

What you achieve, endures throughout time

Let not it be said that you failed,because you never tried. Believe in yourself and your dreams you will pursue..The choice is yours and it's all up to you,to just do..

Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. ...live in the question.

For all of us it's the things that won't work that keep our interest.

Rajiv Chandrasekaran

Those who refuse to take a step toward their goal because it does not at once reach the goal are likely to stand still or move backward.

To make our way, we must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity. We must gear ourselves to work hard all the way. We can never let up.

Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

Find tricks to keep yourself going," William Least Heat Moon once advised a group of aspiring writers. "Anything you can do to trick yourself out of panicking, do it.

Success as a writer is within the grasp of whoever can tell a story on paper that people want to hear, and is willing to persist, to put up with boredom, frustration, and anxiety.

Once I get on a puzzle, I can't get off. If my mother's friend had said, "Never mind, it's too much work," I'd have blown my top, because I want to beat this damn thing, as long as I've gone this far. I can't just leave it after I've found out so much about it. I have to keep going to find out ultimately what is the matter with it in the end.

Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it.

You've done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination.

You should not allow yourself the luxuries of discouragement of despair. Bounce back immediately, and welcome the adversity because it produces harder thinking and harder drive to get to the objective.

He had learned long ago that dying was not hard. The harder course was to defy the odds, to endure life's torments stoically.

They exit the womb in survival mode and continue to struggle that way until they die.

I've done it all. I'm thankful and proud of what I've accomplished in my life. I hope to keep doing it.

Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer

Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave, or they are no better than dreams.