Quotes About Persistence

One thing we learned. To make a start and keep plugging. When I had fights at school, the little while I went, I just bowed my neck and kept swinging until something hit the dirt. Sometimes it was me, but I always got up.

Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element of prayer. Men must be in earnest when they kneel at God's footstool. Too often we get faint-hearted and quit praying at the point when we ought to begin. We let go at the very point where we should hold on strongest. Our prayers are weak because they are not impassioned by an unfailing and resistless will.

The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.

If you want to kill time, try working it to death.

We have as much time as we need.

What we love to do we find time to do.

We shall never have more time. We have, and have always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until to-morrow. Keep going. ... Concentrate on something useful.

One must learn a different... sense of time, one that depends more on small amounts than big ones.

Follow your bliss. -Joseph Campbell Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve.

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 get the fourth without it.

Each day can be one of triumph if you keep up your interests.

Showing up is 80 percent of life.

Do each daily task the best we can; act as though the eye of opportunity were always upon us.

So get a few laughs and do the best you can.

I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you've done the best you can, you can't do any better. So when I go to sleep I turn everything over to the Lord and forget it.

Most of life is routine-dull and grubby, but routine is the mountain that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.

Come what may, time and the hour runs through the roughest day.

At any rate, you can bear it for a quarter of an hour!

The longest day is soon ended.

The secret of my success is that I always managed to live to fly another day.

I was told to be accurate, be brief, and then be seated. ... So I promise I shall be brief as possible - no matter how long it takes me.

Look for opportunity. You can't wait for it to knock on the door. ... You might not be home.

Opportunity knocks at every man's door once. On some men's door it hammers till it breaks down the door and then it goes in and wakes him up if he's asleep, and ever afterward it works for him as a night watchman.

Vigilance in watching opportunity; tact and daring in seizing upon opportunity; force and persistence in crowding opportunity to its utmost possible achievement-these are the martial virtues which must command success.