Quotes About Persistence

Do the fucking work. Don't bitch about it along the way. Shortcuts are for suckers. That's my motto: "Shortcuts are for suckers." Let me take the hard way. So many more benefits from the hard way. So many more benefits and education from the hard way. I want what's earned, not given.

I always had this non-stop drive. I had to keep sending stories out and every once in awhile I'd get something accepted or get the little trickle of positive feedback.

Success can only be achieved through repeated failure and introspection.

Soichiro Honda said "Success can only be achieved through repeated failure and introspection.

Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.

At times, life will give you one failure after another, one disappointment more than you can take, or a challenge that is too much to bear.

In the road to greatness, practice is always essential.

One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time.

She never falls, but never gets out of falling. It's a state of permanent almost-fell.

Existence, it seems, is chiefly maintenance.

No matter what you've been through, you can make it!

Dream big, but allow yourself the opportunity to start small, and have your share of struggles in the beginning. The world's greatest composers weren't writing symphonies the day they first sat at a piano.

If you believe in something, work nights and weekends. It won't feel like work.

Let's just keep going, super cool," I said. "Nothing to see here.

Being rich, of course, meant it was easier to just keep getting what you wanted. It took less and less effort to keep it.

Do not write a poetry of rarity, or of rarification, but of *never again*. Do not even write this poetry but find it, come across it, and step over it. The helpless ant that in the end can lift more than ten times its weight: that is a poetry.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

The secret of success, however, consists in one's resolve, perseverance and confidence, first and foremost in God, and then in one's own self, under His Grace. One must be prepared to bear with failures and lapses.

His (Juggut Singh's) equation with authority was simple: he was on the other side. Personalities did not come into it. Subinspectors & policemen were people in khaki who frequently arrested him, always abused him, and sometimes beat him. Since they abused him and beat him without anger or hate, they were not human beings with names. They were only denominations one tried to get the better of. If one failed, it was just bad luck.

I was quick to learn the tricks of the trade, the most important being: when you run into an unsolvable problem, use grease liberally; it opens all doors.

When I meet successful people I ask 100 questions as to what they attribute their success to. It is usually the same: persistence, hard work and hiring good people.

You've got to work hard for your success and you've got to have a steady presence. That's the secret.

I've had some amazing people in my life. Look at my father - he came from a small fishing village of five hundred people and at six foot four with giant ears and a kind of very odd expression, thought he could be a movie star. So go figure, you know?

These cables will fail eventually, these stones will fall—but not the dream of crossing the mist, the dream of connection. Now that we know it can happen, it will always be here.