Quotes About Persistence

Non aspettare, non arriverà mai il momento perfetto. Inizia con gli strumenti che hai a disposizione. Condizioni migliori si presenteranno lungo la strada. Semplicemente inizia.

An idea or desire, to be transformed into terms of action or physical reality, must be held in the conscious mind faithfully and persistently until habit begins to give it permanent form.

Moreover, experience with thousands of people has proved that lack of persistence is a weakness common to the majority of men. It is a weakness which may be overcome by effort. The ease with which lack of persistence may be conquered will depend entirely upon the intensity of one's desire.

is much harder at first than it will be afterward. At the beginning, make each path as clear and as deep as you can, so that you can readily see it the next time you wish to follow it.

Success comes by inches, not by leaps or bounds. Success is the pushing forward each day by hard work.

Keep your attention firmly concentrated on your new path-building and forget all about the old paths.

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal. If you give up before your goal has been reached, you are a "quitter." A quitter never wins—and a winner never quits. Lift this sentence out, write it on a piece of paper in letters an inch high, and place it where you will see it every night before you go to sleep, and every morning before you go to work.

If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way.

A tough will counts. So does desire. So does a rich soft wanting. Without rich wanting nothing arrives.

You must expect to be in several lost causes before you die.

I HAVE ransacked the encyclopedias And slid my fingers among topics and titles Looking for you. And the answer comes slow. There seems to be no answer. Old-fashioned Requited Love I shall ask the next banana peddler the who and the why of it. Or—the iceman with his iron tongs gripping a clear cube in summer sunlight—maybe he will know.

An ambition is a little creeper that creeps and creeps in your heart night and day, singing a little song, 'Come and find me, come and find me'.

If a thing is worth doing it's worth doing badly.

If one is to succeed in anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.

A man is defeated only when he no longer tries, and abandons himself.

Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.

Keep your dreams, you never know when you might need them.

Conserva tus sueños, nunca sabes cuando te harán falta.

Human beings believe just as they breathe - in order to survive.

Destiny doesn't do home visits... you have to go for it yourself.

El destino suele estar a la vuelta de la esquina. Como si fuese un chorizo, una furcia o un vendedor de lotería: sus tres encarnaciones más socorridas. Pero lo que no hace es visitas a domicilio. Hay que ir a por él. -Fermín Romero de Torres.

Where he had failed, I would triumph. Where he had lost his way, I would find the path out of the labyrinth.

Si me hubiera detenido a pensarlo, hubiera comprendido que mi devoción no era más que una fuente de sufrimiento. Quizás por eso lo adoraba más, por esa estupidez eterna de perseguir a los que nos hacen daño -C. R. Z.

You should only become a writer if the possibility of not becoming one would kill you.