Quotes About Persistence

Hemingway said it aptly: 'We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

Today I know that there is still work to be done, but along the way my I am achieving my dreams.

People always used to say to me, 'Don't you want your own show? That'd be so cool if you had your own show.' I said, 'You know, it's not gonna happen. So - no.'

Real encouragers are willing to be fools in the eyes of cynics because they have a great vision

I tried, once," said Bernard, with a rueful smile. "Yup! I tried." He gazed thoughtfully out the window.

Happy are those who dream dreams And are willing to pay the price to see them come true

You never change things by fighting the existing reality,

what you resist not only persists, but will grow in size.

Some of these persistent people suffer from delusions, the very definition of which explains why they don't let go: a false belief that cannot be shaken even in the face of compelling contrary evidence.

By way of analogy, when you are driving on a slippery mountain road at night, you do not manage the hazard by getting out and drying off the pavement—you slow down through the dangerous curves. When dealing with people who won't let go, that means having strategies in place to lessen the likelihood of unwanted encounters. You change what you can and stop trying to change what you cannot.

In the brilliant book Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman describes seven key abilities most beneficial for human beings: the ability to motivate ourselves, to persist against frustration, to delay gratification, to regulate moods, to hope, to empathize, and to control impulse.

Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman describes seven key abilities most beneficial for human beings: the ability to motivate ourselves, to persist against frustration, to delay gratification, to regulate moods, to hope, to empathize, and to control impulse.

There's a lesson in real-life stalking cases that young women can benefit from learning: persistence only proves persistence—it does not prove love. The fact that a romantic pursuer is relentless doesn't mean you are special—it means he is troubled.

the brilliant book Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman describes seven key abilities most beneficial for human beings: the ability to motivate ourselves, to persist against frustration, to delay gratification, to regulate moods, to hope, to empathize, and to control impulse. Many of those who commit violence never learned these skills. If you know a young person who lacks them all, that's an important pre-incident indicator, and he needs help.

If you tell someone ten times that you don't want to talk to him, you are talking to them—nine more times than you wanted to.

On the stone slab beneath the chimney-piece are inscribed the words Non fatuum huc persecutus ignem – 'It is no will-o'-the-wisp that I have followed here.

He who gives back at first repulse and without striking the second blow, despairs success, has never been, is not, and never will be, a hero in love, war or business. - Frederick Tudor

To get to that level of undefended openness to learning, we have to practice as diligently as a master skier or a master cellist.

adversity is a constant requirement of existence.

She reasoned that since the disease affected her lungs, learning to breathe properly might help. She asked the research team at Stanford to teach her, but no one could tell her what healthy breathing was!

A day might be just twenty-four hours but sometimes getting through just one seems as impossible as scaling Everest.

You just work through it. You just hang in there.

By that point, it'll have been more than year since I met Lulu. Any sane person would say it's too late. It already felt too late that first day, when I woke up in the hospital. But even so, I've kept looking. I'm still looking.

It doesn't rain every day. Just every other day.