Quotes About Persistence

To run the world, you had to find it in yourself to grit your teeth and just fake it. Just stare them down, never back off.

Time had a way of making passion into work. He had what he wanted. He had his dream. He had to live it and breathe it and do its budget.

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything, and in this lies the great distinction between great man and little man. - Thomas Fuller

Do not let your ambitions become a sanctuary for your failures.

Want ever so gently. Invite your desires to you like you call a cat. Any aggressive move toward your goals will chase them away.

Success, just like poverty is a state of mind. You can become successful instantly with a simple decision and commitment. Long lasting and pronounced success comes to those who renew their commitment to a mindset of abundance every minute, hour and day.

I have found in life that everything, no matter how bad, comes to an end.

Let me conclude by saying in my experience the glittering prizes in life come more to those who persevere despite setback and disappointment than they do to the exceptionally gifted who, with the confidence of the talents bestowed upon them, often pursue the tasks leading to success with less determination.

Bryce Courtenay

It's the Idea that wins every time -- the Idea with brains and guts behind it.

Writers never retire. They just keep on writing, long after everyone else has stopped reading.

When you first get started, you're the only one with a vision. When you become creative and use your imagination, pretty soon the things you imagined, you can get done. If you got a taste of it, if you got a taste of what I'm talking about, you'd rather do that than eat. You couldn't get enough of it. You'll hunger for it the rest of your life.

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Work hard, and if you can't work hard, be smart; and, if you can't be smart, be loud.

Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.

As one might nurse a tiny flame, The able and far-seeing man, E?en with the smallest capital, Can raise himself to wealth.

If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.

Perfection is a road, not a destination. Every time I live, I get an education.

Patience will achieve more than force.

There are two ways to get to the top of a giant oak tree. You can sit on an acorn and wait. Or you can climb it.

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All the trees, with all their laden branches; all the shrubs, and ferns, and grasses; the message-carrying air; all these unceasingly were active.

Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee. Sink all coffins and all hearses to one common pool! and since neither can be mine, let me then tow to pieces, while still chasing thee, though tied to thee, thou damned whale! Thus, I give up the spear!

For hardly have we mortals by long toilings extracted from this world's vast bulk its small but valuable sperm; and then, with weary patience, cleansed ourselves from its defilements, and learned to live here in clean tabernacles of the soul; hardly is this done, when—There she blows!—the ghost is spouted up, and away we sail to fight some other world, and go through young life's old routine again.