Quotes About Persistence

He that endureth to the end, shall be saved.

Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly – until you learn to do it well.

Someone has said that the difference between a successful person and a failure is that the successful person got up the last time he or she was knocked down. That

Do it badly; do it slowly; do it fearfully; do it any way you have to, but do it.

Losing is not the same as being defeated.

The human spirit, like a campfire, must be lit again each day.

there is an old adage: If the guerillas do not lose, they ultimately win. . . .

It was like a fingernail on a dead man's hand that kept growing when all other life had ceased.

In the Christian life, it's not how you start that matters. It's how you finish.

You have to learn to convince yourself that the possibility is greater than the inevitability of doing nothing. Listen,

Listen, if you are an entrepreneur who is passionate about your product, but you never ask anyone to buy what you are selling, it will never get sold. Sure, there's a possibility that you can deliver your best sales pitch in your best Sunday suit and they will still say no. But so what? Do you know how many times I've been told no for movie scripts, television shows, and comedy specials? A whole hell of lot more times than I heard yes.

So, I ask you again—what's next? There has to be a reason to get up tomorrow. There has to be a reason to go forward. Your calling has to be stronger than your current circumstances to help your dream keep moving forward.

Now there is a difference between a man who just talks about his dreams and one who is really taking action on his vision now.

The what's next is the reason to keep waking up. The what's next is the driving force for all successful people. There always has to be a what's next.

Failure is but the longer road to triumph.

I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.

If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

I'll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I'll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave in and out of each other, like a tapestry. There may be a few years when I'm not there, but I'll always come back.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.

Keep it simple, so you'll keep doing it.

The baseline," Father Boyle says, "is to go where life is, and as long as this gives you meaning, why would you stop?

People who lack the clarity, courage, or determination to follow their own dreams will often find ways to discourage yours. When you change for the better, the people around you will be inspired to change also....but only after doing their best to make you stop. Live your truth and don't EVER stop.

I want to live my life in such a way that when I get out of bed in the morning, the devil says, "aw shit, he's up!