Quotes About Persistence

I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

I began to know that each morning reasserted the problems of night before, that sleep suspended all but changed nothing, that you couldn't make yourself over between dawn and dusk.

The doubters said, "Man can not fly," The doers said, "Maybe, but we'll try," And finally soared In the morning glow While non-believers Watched from below.

Oh how I hate you. I hate you so much it gives me energy. I have to get up early in the morning just to hate you, because there's not enough time in the day! Please GO AWAY!

Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.

I do one sit up a day. I get up in the morning, that's the first half. I lay down at night, that's the second half.

It is the only point of getting up every morning: to paint, to make something good, to make something even better than before, not to give up, to compete, to be ambitious.

A big part of making your own luck is just charging out of the gate every morning.

You have to get up every morning and tell yourself 'I can do this.'

People who are unwilling to make mistakes or have made mistakes and have not yet learned from them are those who wake up each morning and continue to make the same mistakes

Doing nothing is very tough to do because you never know when you're finished. The upside is that from the moment you wake up in the morning, you're on the job.

Throughout my early career, I would write from five to ten in the morning every day before going to my office, a habit that has stayed with me since.

You gotta get up early in the morning to catch a fox and stay up late at night to get a mink.

Successful people keep moving, even when they are discouraged and have made mistakes.

Some of those more out-there jokes were written in the wee hours of the morning. Somehow, they remained funny the next day.

If you want to be a writer, you have to write every day... You don't go to a well once but daily. You don't skip a child's breakfast or forget to wake up in the morning.

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.

You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch.

You never put off until tomorrow or even this afternoon what you can do this morning. Attack the objective when your desire is strongest.

The ego is like the root of a banyan tree, you think you have removed it all then one fine morning you see a sprout flourishing again.

The courage it took to get out of bed each morning to face the same things over and over was enormous.

You can't plant a seed and pick the fruit the next morning.

The right idea is the one you can't stop thinking about; the one that's in your head first thing in the morning.

The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning