Quotes About Persistence

The secret of patience ... to do something else in the meantime.

All things come to him who waits- provided he knows what he is waiting for.

The best way out of a difficulty is through it.

It's a long time between drinks.

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned, and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.

A faint endeavor ends in a sure defeat.

Enthusiasm for one's goal to lessens the disagreeableness of working toward it.

Energy, even like the Biblical grain of mustard-seed, will move mountains.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

When the rock is hard, we get harder than the rock. When the job is tough, we get tougher than the job.

Boys, this is only a game. But it's like life in that you will be dealt some bad hands. Take each hand, good or bad, and don't whine and complain, but play it out. If you're men enough to do that, God will help you and you will come out well.

Evil often triumphs, but never conquers.

Flops are a part of life's menu, and Eve never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.

Man errs as long as he struggles.

We must somehow get comfortable with the reality of periodic failure. ... Like a trip to the dentist, the thought of occasional reverses may not make us tingle with joyful anticipation, but then again, it's not the end of the world.

He only is exempt from failures who makes no effort.

Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. The only time you don't want to fail is the last time you try something.... One fails forward toward success.

A man may fall many times, but he won't be a failure until he says that someone pushed him.

You can beat the Bear once, but never the same way twice.

The biggest quality in successful people I think is an impatience with negative thinking. ... How many opportunities come along? If you wait for the right one, that's wrong, because it may never be right, and what have you got to lose? Even if it's a disaster, you've tried, you've learned something, you've had an adventure. And that doesn't mean you can't do it again.

You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried.

Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.

We learn courageous action by going forward whenever fear urges us back. A little boy was asked how he learned to skate. "By getting up every time I fell down," he answered.

What is to be got at to make the air sweet, the ground good under the feet, can only be got at by failure, trial, again and again and again failure.