Quotes About Persistence

In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.

I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat.

June's too soon, July's too late - for summer.

We shall succeed only so far as we continue that most distasteful of all activity, the intolerable labour of thought.

Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.

He that will not stoop for a pin will never be worth a pound.

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Look at a stone cutter 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 the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

I think and think for months, for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows slowly endures.

One step and then another, and the longest walk is ended. One stitch and then another, and the longest rent is mended. One brick upon another, and the tallest wall is made. One flake and then another, and the deepest snow is laid.

The way a chihuahua goes about eating a dead elephant is to take a bite and be very present with that bite. In spiritual growth, the definitive act is to take one step and let tomorrow's step take care of itself!

Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern; it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that; one stitch at a time taken patiently, and the pattern will come out all right, like embroidery.

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Down to Gehenna or up to the throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.

Tis a lesson you should heed, Try, try, try again If at first you don't succeed, Try, try, try again.

Let's just say, he has too many pigeons on his antenna.

Well-adjusted means you can make the same mistakes over and over again, and keep smiling.

The Saints are the Sinners who keep on trying.

Before you begin a thing remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. ... You can only see one thing clearly, and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.

Nothing is easy to the unwilling.

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.