Quotes About Persistence

The ability to concentrate singlemindedly on your most important task, to do it well and to finish it completely, is the key to great success, achievement, respect, status, and happiness in life. This key insight is the heart and soul of this book. This

Overall, though, if you focus too much on bad experiences you will invite more of the same. But if you turn them into just another chapter in the narrative of success, you'll find it easier to draw positive solutions.

Thomas Edison once wrote, "My success is due more to my ability to work continuously on one thing without stopping than to any other single quality." You should practice this principle as well.

La autodisciplina es la clave Elbert Hubbard definía la disciplina como «la capacidad para obligarte a ti mismo a hacer lo que debes hacer, cuando debes hacerlo y tengas o no tengas ganas de hacerlo».

If you want to CHANGE your FUTURE, take ACTION, take ACTION NOW!

There's only one thing that's strong enough to defeat the tyranny of the moment. Habit.

What is the mean-spirited cosmic force that dictates that once you've smacked you shin once, you'll re-smack the same spot on everything sharp and hard that comes within a thirty-foot radius?

The true measure of a man is in how much it takes to discourage him." I

The true measure of a woman is in how much it takes to discourage her." I

Do not be discouraged by the resistance you will encounter from your human nature; you must go against your human inclinations. Often, in the beginning, you will think that you are wasting time, but you must go on, be determined and persevere in it until death, despite all the difficulties.

I had learned the most important rule in winning-keep thinking.

Peu importe le rêve, qu'il soit ambitieux ou grandiose, quelqu'un finira par le réaliser. Autant que ce soit vous.

Life has a habit of going on.

I've watched snails climb over ten foot walls and vanish.

As in so many human endeavors, the secrets to success are patience, persistence, and minimizing mistakes. In driving, it's having no serious accidents; in tennis, the key is getting the ball back; and in investing, it's indexing—to avoid the expenses and mistakes that do so much harm to so many investors.

Trust in time rather than in timing.

Llegue hasta la pared de enfrente de la vida. Y me parece que he tenido siempre a la mano esta pared.

You untangle a knot with slow teasing, not sharp pulling, and believe me we have here a knot such as I have never seen. But I will unpick it. I will.

Every good idea sooner or later degenerates into hard work.

That is what love is I thought. A possibility that becomes a choice. A choice you keep making over and over. Day after day. Year after year. Time after time.

Darkness may cover light, but that is not the same thing as putting it out. Whereas, to overcome darkness, all light need do is to exist.

I will not fail,' the water bearer's daughter vowed. 'But worse than failing is not to try at all. For then there can be no hope of success.

If someone eliminates the obstacles you believe to be in front of you, then you have no choice but to try. Fail spectacularly, if you will, but try.

I've tried to read, but I can't make it through more than a paragraph at a time. The floor is littered with abandoned newspapers and yogurt pots.