Quotes About Persistence

So You will be what you will to be; Let failure find its false content In that poor word, 'environment,' But spirit scorns it, and is free.

Men are demanding to improve their circumstances, however are unwilling to improve themselves; they consequently stay sure. The guy who does now not cut back from self-crucifixion can never fail to perform the object upon which his heart is about.

He who masters the small becomes the rightful possessor of the great.

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You will be what you will to be; Let failure find its false content In that poor word, environment, But spirit scorns it, and is free.

The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do. Doubt and worry are the exceptional enemies of understanding, and he who encourages them, who does no longer slay them, thwarts himself at each step.

Before a man can achieve anything, even in worldly things, he must elevate his mind above slavish animal indulgence. He may not, so that it will prevail, surrender all animality and selfishness, by way of any way; but a portion of it should, as a minimum, be sacrificed.

one endure In purity of thought, joy follows him As his own shadow—sure.

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.

As the physically weak man can make himself strong by careful and patient training, so the man of weak thoughts can make them strong by exercising himself in right thinking. To

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.

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

Before a man can achieve anything, even in worldly things, he must lift his thoughts above slavish animal indulgence. He may not, in order to succeed, give up all animality and selfishness, by any means; but a portion of it must, at least, be sacrificed. A man whose first thought is bestial indulgence could neither think clearly nor plan methodically;

did that attitude work? Of course not.

When you're a kid, everything has a question mark at the end of it. Only later do they turn into periods. Or even exclamation points. "Will I get over this?" becomes "It's too late." Becomes "I can't get over this!

The only truly safe thing you can do is to try over and over again. To go for it, to get rejected, to repeat, to strive, to wish. Without rejection there is no frontier, there is no passion, and there is no magic. How

And it took him about 15 years of writing every day, writing thousands of poems and stories before he finally started making a living as a writer. He wrote his first novel at the age of 49 and it was financially successful. After 25 years of plugging away at it he was finally a successful writer.

I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. In fact, there are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name.

Maybe most the important thing I learned was one thing he said to me toward the end: "Are you willing to do whatever it takes to make the thing that excites you come true? Are you fearless?

As Mac Lethal said to me, "Nobody remembers your bad stuff, just keep working at it and you'll put out good stuff and that's what they will see and remember.

IMPROVE. You wanted that ONE job, that ONE scholarship, that TV show, that book, to sell your company, to sell your product, whatever. And they said, no. Take a hard look at the product. Can you improve your offering? Can you take a step back and improve what you are doing? Maybe you can and maybe you can't. But brainstorm first. What are the ten things you can do to improve what you are doing?

Persistence in developing that creativity will make you better at execution, better at idea generation, and more optimistic (simply because over time you will be more confident that you can always awaken it). Creativity becomes your loving friend instead of your enemy. And optimism, creativity, and persistence are all close siblings that want to play together as much as possible.

The NORMAL thing is to be rejected. To get rejected by jobs, your kids, friends, family members, relationships, businesses, publishers, everyone.

Everyone is an entrepreneur. The only skills you need to be an entrepreneur are the ability to fail, to have ideas, to sell those ideas, to execute on them, and to be persistent so even as you fail you learn and move onto the next adventure.