Quotes About Persistence

Antes de o sucesso chegar à vida de alguém, essa pessoa certamente encontrará muitas derrotas temporárias e talvez algum fracasso. Quando sobrevém a derrota, a coisa mais fácil e mais lógica a fazer é desistir. É exatamente o que faz a maioria das pessoas.

Abraham Lincoln was a failure at everything he tried, until he was well past the age of forty. He was a Mr Nobody from Nowhere, until a great experience came into his life, aroused the sleeping genius within his heart and brain, and gave the world one of its really great men.

Persistence is the direct result of habit. The mind absorbs and becomes a part of the daily experiences upon which it feeds. Fear, the worst of all enemies, can be effectively cured by forced repetition of acts of courage.

Si se rinde antes de alcanzar su meta, usted es una persona que se rinde con facilidad. Éste tipo de personas nunca gana, y un ganador nunca se rinde.

but the urge to continue was stronger than the desire to quit.

Practical dreamers DO NOT QUIT!

Learn to Wait. Not idly, but with the spirit of Busyness in your system working itself out into some useful Endeavor. For to know HOW to Wait is to master one of the greatest secrets of Success.

One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat. Every

The Junk man took millions of dollars in ore from the mine, because he knew enough to seek expert counsel before giving up.

writers of the

When you begin to select members for your Master Mind group, endeavor to select those who do not take defeat seriously. Some people foolishly believe that only MONEY can make money. This is not true! DESIRE, transmuted into its monetary equivalent, through the principles laid down here, is the agency through which money is made. Money, of itself, is nothing but inert matter. It cannot move, think, or talk, but it can hear when a man who DESIRES it, calls it to come!

The person who makes persistence his watch-word, discovers that "Old Man Failure" finally becomes tired, and makes his departure. Failure cannot cope with persistence.

No matter who you are or what may be your lifework, you are playing checkers with TIME! It is always your next move. Move with quick DECISION and Time will favor you. Stand still and Time will wipe you off the board. You cannot always make the right move, but, if you make enough moves you may take advantage of the law of averages and pile up a creditable score before the great game of LIFE is ended.

Ideas come and go, stories stay.

Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius (one of the doer-Stoic authors), "fire feeds on obstacles.

be. So I follow the Lindy effect as a guide in selecting what to read: books that have been around for ten years will be around for ten more; books that have been around for two millennia should be around for quite a bit of time, and so forth.

Pasteur said, like all great discoverers, he knew something about accidental discoveries. The best way to get maximal exposure is to keep researching. Collect opportunities--

Not everything that happens happens for a reason, but everything that survives survives for a reason.

One general, Fabius Maximus was nicknamed Cunctator, "the Procrastinator." He drove Hannibal, who had an obvious military superiority, crazy by avoiding and delaying engagement.

If you can't put your soul into something, give it up and leave that stuff to someone else.

Of course chance favors the prepared! Hard work, showing up on time, wearing a clean (preferably white) shirt, using deodorant, and some such conventional things contribute to success—they are certainly necessary but may be insufficient as they do not cause success.

Bir treni kaç?rmak ancak peÅŸinden koÅŸarsan?z ac? verici olur.

that very rare ability called imagination, that rarer quality called courage, and who make things happen.

Many people labor in life under the impression that they are doing something right, yet they may not show solid results for a long time. They need a capacity for continuously adjourned gratification to survive a steady diet of peer cruelty without becoming demoralized.