Quotes About Persistence

No matter how big and tough a problem may be, get rid of confusion by taking one little step towards solution. Do something. Then try again. At the worst, so long as you don't do it the same way twice, you will eventually use up all the wrong ways of doing it and thus the next try will be the right one.

There is no movement without our own resistance.

The best way out of a problem is through it.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.

Difficulties exist to be surmounted.

Once you sink that first stake, they'll never make you pull it up.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, and all things in succession. That which grows slowly endures.

If you strike a thorn or rose, Keep a-goin! If it hails or if it snows, Keep a-goin! 'Tain't no use to sit and whine 'Cause the fish ain't on your line; Bait your hook an' keep on tryin'. Keep a-goin!

Let them stew in their own grease (or juice).

Every path has its puddle.

His shortcoming is his long staying.

It never rains but it pours.

You never conquer a mountain. You stand on the summit a few moments; then the wind blows your footprints away.

So often we search out the impossible, and then throw ourselves into trying to do it.

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.

Breaks balance out. The sun don't shine on the same old dog's rear end every day.

I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all Summer.

A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.

I survived. (J'ai vecu.)

I want to do it because I want to do it.

The door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me.

As you go along your road in life, you will, if you aim high enough, also meet resistance ... but no matter how tough the opposition may seem, have courage still-and persevere.