Quotes About Persistence

I think the young actor who really wants to act will find a way ... to keep at it and seize every opportunity that comes along.

Do not suppose opportunity will knock twice at your door.

Keep a thing seven years and you will find a use for it.

All things come round to him who will but wait.

Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. For every one that asketh, receiveth; and he that seeketh, findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.

A new idea is rarely born like Venus attended by graces. More commonly it's modeled of baling wire and acne. More commonly it wheezes and tips over.

A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.

You know what they call the guy who finishes last in medical school? They call him Doctor!

When something has been perfect, there is a tendency to try hard to repeat it.

There's nothing in this world that comes easy. There are a lot of people who aren't going to bother to win. We learn in football to get up and go once more.

You can do what you want to do, accomplish what you want to accomplish, attain any reasonable objective ... if you want it, if you will to do it, if you work to do it, over a sufficiently long period of time.

We conquer by continuing.

When it goes wrong, you feel like cutting your throat, but you go on. You don't let anything get you down so much that it beats you or stops you.

Any man can work when every stroke of his hands brings down the fruit rattling from the tree ... but to labor in season and out of season, under every discouragement... that requires a heroism which is transcendent.

Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.

For me, at least, there came moments when faith wavered. But there is the great lesson and the great triumph: keep the fire burning until, by and by, out of the mass of sordid details there comes some result.

Nothing in the world can take place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful individuals with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Without perseverance talent is a barren bed.

By perseverance the snails reached the ark.

As an entrepreneur, I am often asked how I kept my perseverance. Well, persevere comes from the Latin roots purse, as in "money," and sever, as in "cut off." That's why I persevered.

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races, one after another.

Never retract, never explain, never apologize - get the thing done and let them howl.

If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.