Quotes About Persistence

Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.

A filly who wants to run will always find a rider.

While a person does not give up on sex, sex does not give up on the person.

Keep doing what you're doing and you'll keep getting what you're getting.

All I had to do was keep turning left.

Don't let go of the vine.

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

The game isn't over until it's over.

This story will never go down.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Vacillating people seldom succeed. They seldom win the solid respect of their fellows. Successful men and women are very careful in reaching decisions, and very persistent and determined in action thereafter.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imaged, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.

We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely, but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

There is a passion for perfection which you rarely see fully developed; but you may note this fact, that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

To bring one's self to a frame of mind and to the proper energy to accomplish things that require plain hard work continuously is the one big battle that everyone has. When this battle is won for all time, then everything is easy.

Enthusiasm for one's goal lessens the disagreeableness of working toward it.

Every man is enthusiastic at times. One man has enthusiasm for thirty minutes, another man has it for thirty days. But it is the man who has it for thirty years who makes a success in life.

Pa, he always said a man had to look spry for himself, because nobody would do it for him; your opportunities didn't come knocking around, you had to hunt them down and hog-tie them.

He that would have fruit must climb the tree.

You can't catch trout with dry breeches.