Quotes About Persistence

The Ancient Mariner seizes the guest at the wedding feast and will not let go until he has told all his story: the prototype of the bore.

I was occasionally getting calls for some things. But I would say, 22 to 29 was a lot of scuffling. Hoping to get called for bad wedding gigs and I did do an off-Broadway show for about 15 months.

The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.

If a gem falls into mud it is still valuable. If dust ascends to heaven, it remains valueless.

How long will you keep pounding on an open door Begging for someone to open it?

Never turn back to see the result of what you have done. Give all to the Lord and go on, and think not of it.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

I don't think you can ever do your best. Doing your best is a process of trying to do your best.

Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly.

We should take as a maxim never to be surprised at current difficulties, no more than at a passing breeze, because with a little patience we shall see them disappear. Time changes everything.

The early bird catches the worm.

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.

To follow without halt, one aim; there is the secret of success. And success? What is it? I do not find it in the applause of the theater; it lies rather in the satisfaction of accomplishment.

I don't know what my path is yet. I'm just walking on it.

Knowledge, wisdom, and understanding don't come out of the microwave. You got to keep moving forward because the evil doesn't sleep.

Little by little, one travels far

A man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.

Leave no stone unturned.

Never give up on yourself. Then you will never give up on others.

Success is not about who never fails. It is about who can spring - or even stagger - back up.

As the sea-crab swimmeth always against the stream, so doth wit always against wisdom.

The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term, is the indispensable prerequisite for success.

I seek the truth...it is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance that does harm.