Quotes About Persistence

Sometimes it takes me days or weeks to get something clear in my head on what I want to do. Everything is in steps. One thing leads to another.

I get a lot of letters from people. They say "I want to be a writer. What should I do?" I tell them to stop writing to me and to get on with it.

I say when the truth wants to find you or wants to be found by you, it will come after you. You cannot stop that force.

I begrudge God none of this. I do not curse him or bemoan my lot. And though my heart keeps beating only to keep breaking- I do not question why.

Stephen Arnott

Let's not get tired of doing what is good. At just the right time we will reap a harvest of blessing if we don't give up" (Galatians 6:9).

Though most students in those days read with an accomplished attorney in his office, Lincoln taught himself entirely on his own.

To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction — and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by.

He took refuge in the concept that sometimes slowest is the fastest in the end.

People have to be educated and they have to stick to it. If people lose that respect, an awful lot is lost.

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Remove the rock from your shoe rather than learn to limp comfortably.

I did learn Chinese kung-fu in a school for a short time, but I couldn't afford to pay for long-term learning.

You need to develop, somehow, a huge amount of faith and confidence in yourself, because there's a lot of rejection throughout an actor's life and you have to believe in yourself more than anyone else.

Know your own bone: gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

In other words, firms don't have to be "born Agile," like Spotify. Even big, old firms can undertake an Agile transformation if they set their minds and hearts to it—and stick with it.

I asked Carlson what he did in those early years to get people's buy-in. Carlson says he included everyone but he worked mainly with the early adopters. "You never get a 100 percent," he says. "We focused on the people who wanted to work this way. You can't convert everyone on day one. That takes years.

Trying to remember you is like carrying water in my hands a long distance across sand. Somewhere people are waiting. They have drunk nothing for days.

A man who wants to do something will find a way; a man who doesn't will find an excuse.

plan your work and work your plan" "where there is a will, there is a way

Read on, it gets worse.

That is why enduring to the end is the fifth principle of the gospel. Daily, our question shouldn't be "Have I made it to the kingdom yet?" but rather, "Do I still want to stay?

Method is the most sterile of all concerns…. Nothing was ever accomplished through method alone.

What's most important is having the conviction and vision to move toward what you want to create day after day, year after year, decade after decade.