Quotes About Persistence

Let humility be always at work, like the bee at the honeycomb, or all will be lost.

It is true that I might stumble for trying to do too much too soon, but it is also certain that I will never succeed if I hope for too little, or out of fear of failing start not at all.

At first it may cause a good deal of trouble, for the body insists on its rights, not understanding that if it refuses to admit defeat it is, as it were, cutting off its own head.

For the devil does not allow a single bad habit to disappear and the very weakness of our mortal nature destroys the virtues in us.

Even if you are in a labyrinth at a dead end you have a choice; Change your course and seek an another exit or break down the wall. It's your choice.

Everyone always says one door closes to let another open. A true genius already has their foot in the next door before the other one shuts.

I'm doing 85 outside the kingdom of heaven

God may not be there when you want him but he is always on time.

We are so busy attempting to manage the result that we fail simply to run the race.

Waves broke, then sighed as if they were searching, not finding, then coming back, never giving up the search, returning again and again.

The game doesn't always go your way. Forget fair. Feel forgotten. But damn it, Anna, You don't stop playing.

Walking through puddles is my favorite metaphor for life.

This weary ol' workhorse is a unicorn, my friend.

Chase down your passion like it's the last bus of the night.

Never stop pedaling to power your dreams.

Hard work is rewarding beyond gold. Sweating is living.

If I fall asleep with a pen in my hand, don't remove it — I might be writing in my dreams.

Follow your passion, and success will follow you.

Mountain pose is an affirmation. You can conquer anything with your natural boldness and resolute strength. Only you can reach the peak of your success.

All of a sudden he stripped off his wet suit. It was winter and quite cold. "What are you doing?" I called out. He stood in the icy water. "This is how dedicated I am to having a boy baby," he said, with a mischievous grin. I said, "I think you're just supposed to keep them cool, not actually freeze them off." He laughed.

Even on the road, we continued our efforts to conceive. Part of our boy-baby effort was the need to try right at the time of ovulation. I packed an ovulation kit with me everywhere. When the strip turned blue, it meant we had a twenty-four- to forty-eight-hour window to get busy. At first I had Steve convinced that women ovulated twenty or thirty times a month. But I couldn't trick him forever. At some point he realized that that was impossible.

The secret of your success is hidden in your daily routine."[1]

Evil contained is not evil destroyed.

Many men have robbed themselves of their destiny because they have allowed discouragement to rob them of their dreams.