Quotes About Persistence

The only way to find out if you can write is to set aside a certain period every day and try. Save enough money to give yourself six months to be a full-time writer. Work every day and the pages will pile up.

I work every day-or at least I force myself into my office or room. I may get nothing done, but you don't earn bonuses without putting in time. Nothing may come for three months, but you don't earn the fourth without it.

When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence, but by oft falling.

The race is not always to the swift, but to those who keep on running.

If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.

It's the steady, constant driving to the goal for which you're striving, not the speed with which you travel, that will make your victory sure.

Slow and steady wins the race.

Be content to grow a little each day. If the improvement is the sort of thing which is very slow, do not measure it too often. Do a self-comparison every two weeks, or every six months, whatever is appropriate.

The way of progress is neither swift nor easy.

Slow motion gets you there faster.

I'm not there yet, but I'm closer than I was yesterday.

You give ioo percent in the first half of the game, and if that isn't enough, in the second half you give what's left.

Don't get hung up on a snag in the stream, my dear. Snags are not so dangerous-it's the debris that clings to them that makes the trouble. Pull yourself loose and go on.

One can go a long way after one is tired.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, try for eight, sixteen, thirty-two, and so on. Eventually, one discovers that it is not boring, but very interesting.

No one ever did anything worth doing unless he was prepared to go on with it long after it became something of a bore.

I've been failing for like, ten or eleven years. When it turns, it'll turn. Right now I'm just tryin' to squeeze through a very tight financial period, get the movie out, and put my things in order.

Where I am today has everything to do with the years I spent hanging on to a career by my fingernails.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we ... are often on the line and do not know it. How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience, would have achieved success. A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

It is with enterprises as with striking fire; we do not meet with success except with reiterated efforts, and often at the instant when we despaired of success.

Saints are sinners who kept on going.

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, 'til it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.