Quotes About Persistence

life goes on ad nauseam.

Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.

Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on schedule. The key is to keep working the engines.

Range after range of mountains. Year after year after year. I am still in love.

I thought, that day I started, I sure would hate to do this all my life, And dammit, that's just what I've gone and done.

Never, Never, Never Say NEVER

I always say that the real success of Wine Library wasn't due to the videos I posted, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships.

of one California Highway Patrol officer quoted in the book, "It's sheer numbers.… You've got to kiss a lot of frogs before you find a prince.

And, despite the care which she took to look behind her at every moment, she failed to see a shadow which followed her like her own shadow, which stopped when she stopped, which started again when she did and which made no more noise than a well-conducted shadow should.

For a month Cook sailed along offshore looking for a safe anchorage, with the northern and then the eastern shore on his starboard bow, but he was frustrated at every new turn of the land by winds or currents or pounding surf in the shallows.

Persistent, Mike thought. Mark of those who succeed. Indeed, it was the mark of something, but not success. It was refusing to hear "no," a clear signal of trouble in any context. Forty

seven key abilities human beings need to effectively manage life: the ability to motivate ourselves, to persist against frustration, to delay gratification, to regulate moods, to hope, to empathize, and to control impulse. Many

Brett McLaughlin

Try to change who you are and you will fight yourself all the way and then wonder, amidst the resistance, why you lack discipline. We

In this day and age, you need a lot of patience if you are in the movie business.

You need to develop a mantra: "There will always be another trade." Learn it, know it, live it.

What are the rules? I said & he said you run & you run & you run until you fall over. There's a couple others in there for variety, he added, but that's the main one.

Of course I already know the best thing to do, but it'll have to wait a little while longer. I'm still convinced I can get my own way. —Best Thing

I don't think of it as avoiding, he said. I think of it as another opportunity to practice ignoring things that bug me. —Steady Practice

All those times I wanted to quit, slip out through the escape hatch and disappear without a trace. But you weren't having it, no, you and your stubborn love.

If there is no wind, start rowing.

10 Steps to Becoming a Better Writer Write. Write more. Write even more. Write even more than that. Write when you don't want to. Write when you do. Write when you have something to say. Write when you don't. Write every day. Keep writing.

Rome wasn't built in a day, but then again I wasn't on that particular job.

Science is delighted frustration. It is about asking questions, to which the answers may be unavailable – now, or perhaps ever. It is about noticing regularities, asserting that these regularities must have natural explanations and searching for those explanations.