Quotes About Persistence

He could sustain the pain if he saw only weekly performance numbers, instead of updates every minute.

Your revenue depends on your continuous efforts more than on the quality of your decisions.

It always returns to its initial state.

Le pire n'est pas que l'on se brûle, mais que le feu s'éteint.

No dream ever entirely disappears. Somewhere it troubles some unfortunate person and some day, when that person has been sufficiently troubled, it will be reproduced on the lot.

To persevere with the will to understand in the face of obstacles is the heroism of consciousness.

Doing more of what doesn't work doesn't work.

Success in life belongs to those who do.

when a self-doubting, insecure person blindly persists in counterproductive behavior, clings to the illusory safety of compulsive inflexibility, and blames all misfortune on someone else.

The thing I want you to understand," Ayn was saying, "is that no matter how hard the battle, it can be won. You can break through.

In cases of distasteful occupation, the second day is generally worse than the first; we return to the rack with all the soreness of the preceding torture in our limbs.

there are few things whether in the outward world, or, to a certain depth, in the invisible sphere of thought—few things hidden from the man who devotes himself earnestly and unreservedly to the solution of a mystery.

Preach! Write! Act! Do anything, save to lie down and die!

Thomas Paine was so inspired by the heroism displayed at Fort Mifflin that he published an open letter to William Howe: 'You are fighting for what you can never obtain and we are defending what we never mean to part with.

To me, the white whale is that wall, shoved near to me.

I breakfasted at four [a.m.], was in the saddle at five, and between that hour and 6 p.m. I rode fifty miles over a rough country, unknown to everybody, and only myself for a guide

To live and imagine. That's the job left for those of us who've survived.

And I'm willing to march into hell if I'm following you.

You have to fight for your freedom and for peace. You have to fight for it every day, to keep it. It's like a glass boat; it's easy to break. It's easy to lose. —JOACHIM RØNNEBERG, Gunnerside leader

Hope can be bruised and battered. It can be forced underground and even rendered unconscious, but hope cannot be killed.

Walls don't fall without effort.

always been a goal-oriented girl. it was both her strength and her weakness. She had a drive to completion that always gets things done, but it also made her inflexible, and stubborn.-- Everlost

Picking locks was not a skill he had ever cultivated, but he persisted day after day, turning the tip of his talon into different ways of approaching a keyhole. He never tired, and he ever gave up...because if there was any justice in the universe, he wouldn't be trapped here forever.

The stars will go dark and the universe will end before I get this year back. That is the weight chained to my ankle, and it is far heavier than any anchor. That is the overwhelming never that I must face. And I still don't know if I'll disappear into it, or find a way to push beyond.