Quotes About Persistence

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give it your best shot. And if you fail? What is it they say? "Try again. Fail better.

In spite of everything, life would go on, the life of a nation making its way through a land of stone.

I'm always amazed how overnight successes take a helluva long time.

Success belongs to those who have these two attributes: • An insatiable desire to learn • An unquenchable bias for action

1. Senior leaders need to be in the market 80% of the week, either figuratively or literally. 2. This routine must start on day one and continue through half a trillion in revenue!

Repetition encompasses consistency. Finish what you start. Mean what you say. And don't say one thing and do something else. Consistency is an important aspect of repetition.

Practice what we preach • Nothing less than ecstatic customers • First class for less • Honor intellectual capitalists • Everyone an entrepreneur • Never, ever, ever give up

Got what you needed?" he asked over his shoulder. Not quite, but Rome wasn't built in a day.

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

Let us sacrifice one day to gain perhaps a whole life.

When you get an idea into your head you find it in everything.

He had slipped, climbed, rolled, searched, walked, persevered, that is all. Such is the secret of all triumphs.

Press on! A better fate awaits thee.

A shadow is hard to seize by the throat and dash to the ground.

Though we chisel away as best we can at the mysterious block from which our life is made, the black vein of destiny continually reappears.

Javert, though hideous, was not ignoble.

You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience. . . . You ask why I speak? I am neither informed against, nor pursued, nor hunted, say you. Yes! I am informed against! yes! I am pursued! yes! I am hunted! By whom? by myself. It is I myself who bar the way before myself, and I drag myself, and I urge myself, and I check myself and I exert myself, and when one holds himself he is well held.

To attempt, to brave, to persist, and persevere, to be faithful to one's self, to wrestle with destiny, to astound the catastrophe by the slight fear which is causes us, now to confront unjust power, again to insult intoxicated victory, to hold firm and withstand -- such is the example which nations need and the light which electrifies them.

We chip away as best we can at the mysterious block of marble our lives are made of- in vain; the black vein of destiny always reappears.

Running beer gathers no foam.

People overwhelmed with trouble do not look behind; they know only too well that misfortune follows them.

You have knocked at every door? she asked. Yes. Have you knocked at that one there? No. Knock there.