Quotes About Persistence

I couldn't commit suicide if my life depended on it.

Every day I beat my own previous record for number of consecutive days I've stayed alive.

I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fuckin' heroic.

If I set for myself a task, be it so trifling, I shall see it through. How else shall I have confidence in myself to do important things?

Will power is but the unflinching purpose to carry the task you set for yourself to fulfillment.

In those things toward which we exerted our best endeavors we succeeded.

The only failure is not to try

You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure.

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.

He renders this saying, "The good news of the kingdom of God is preached, and every one enters it violently" (eis aut?n biazetai, Lk. 16:16). Here is the same use of biazetai in the middle voice.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

We must not sit still and look for miracles up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

No matter how big and tough a problem may be, get rid of confusion by taking one little step towards solution. Do something. Then try again. At the worst, so long as you don't do it the same way twice, you will eventually use up all the wrong ways of doing it and thus the next try will be the right one.

The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.

When you aim for perfection, you discover it's a moving target.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

There is a saying attributed to him that helps explain his thinking: "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

It's my job to run after her." "Without backup?" "I am the backup.

What part of no don't you understand?" "The part where I don't get what I want.

It rolled over you like old oil from a fryer.

Kate usually dealt with things by talking, and when that didn't work, chopping obstacles into tiny pieces and frying them with magic so they didn't get back up.

Take me off your calling list, or I will find you and make you regret it.