Quotes About Persistence

This one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark!

To seek one's goals and to drive toward it, steeling one's heart, is most uplifting!

Laboring toward distant aims sets the mind in a higher key, and puts us at our best.

What does so-called success or failure matter if only you have succeeded in doing the thing you set out to do. The doing is all that really counts.

A windmill is eternally at work to accomplish one end, although it shifts with every variation of the weathercock, and assumes ten different positions in a day.

I can tell you how to get what you want: You've just got to keep a thing in view and go for it and never let your eyes wander to right or left or up or down. And looking back is fatal.

The greyhound that starts many hares kills none.

He who wishes to fulfill his mission in the world must be a man of one idea, one great overmastering purpose, overshadowing all his aims, and guiding and controlling his entire life.

If you would be Pope, you must think of nothing else.

One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything, and consequently get nothing.

I care not what your education is, elaborate or nothing, what your mental calibre is, great or small, that man who concentrates all his energies of body, mind and soul in one direction is a tremendous man.

Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight.

I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber, so I don't intend to try any more.

Tell them that as soon as I can walk I'm going to fly!

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you.

Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.

Far away in the sunshine are my highest inspirations. I many not reach them, but I can look up and see the beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead.

Great is the road I climb, but... the garland offered by an easier effort is not worth the gathering.

You have to erect a fence and say, "Okay, scale this."

A determinate purpose of life, and steady adhesion to it through all disadvantages, are indispensable conditions of success.

Life has ... taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.

I am afraid I shall not find Him, but I shall still look for Him. If He exists, He may be appreciative of my efforts.

God does not pay weekly, but he pays at the end.

For the rest of my life I'm going to trust that God is always at work in all things, and give Him thanks long before my simplest prayers are answered.