Quotes About Persistence

you don't build endurance by pushing yourself beyond your limits.

truth has a certain buoyancy - it makes its way to the surface, in time.

I know this isn't easy for anyone - nothing worth doing is every easy Brenda to Maisie Dobbs

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The empty swing set reminds us of this-- that bad won't be bad forever, and what is good can sometimes last a long, long time.

If the rise and fall of BlackBerry teaches us anything it is that the race for innovation has no finish line, and that winners and losers can change places in an instant.

The chance emergence of the was nothing. Remember this. But its persistence and patient accumulation of stature were everything. Only by relentless effort did it establish its right to exist.

James A. Michener

It really set my nerves jangling," Jenny Larsen confessed. "Wasn't it strange, the way it kept up, day after day?" Alice Grebe, to whom this question was directed, said nothing, for

Most important fact of war? Keep your army in existence. Lose the battle, but keep your eye on winning the war." But

One day it struck me with full force that a husband is worth having, and it was worth making every effort to win a good one. So when Laurence appeared I set out to win him with an abandon I never knew I had. You can do the same.

Some of us got our reputations because we wrote good books or had clever publicists. He got his reputation through sheer hard work.

He that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened;

Your circumstances may be uncongenial, but they shall not long remain so if you but perceive an Ideal and strive to reach it.

The human will, that force unseen, The offspring of a deathless soul, Can hew a way to any goal, Though walls of granite intervene.

The price of life is effort; the acme of effort is accomplishment; the reward of accomplishment is joy.

He that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened; for only by patience, practice, and ceaseless importunity can a man enter the Door of the Temple of Knowledge. EFFECT

The man who does not shrink from self-crucifixion can never fail to accomplish the object upon which his heart is set.

All things at last yield to the silent, irresistible, all conquering energy of purpose.

The man who sets his whole mind on the doing of each task as it is presented, who puts into it energy and intelligence, shutting all else out from his mind, and striving to do that one thing, no matter how small, completely and perfectly, detaching himself from all reward in his task - that man will every day be acquiring greater command over his mind, and will, by ever- ascending degrees, become at last a man of power - a Master.

Every difficulty can be overcome if rightly dealt with; anxiety is, therefore, unnecessary. The task which cannot be overcome ceases to be a difficulty, and becomes an impossibility; and anxiety is still unnecessary, for there is only one way of dealing with an impossibility - namely, to submit to it. The inevitable is the best.

In this path, as in no different, is the regulation absolute that He that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened; for most effective through endurance, practice, and ceaseless importunity can a man enter the Door of the Temple of Knowledge.