Quotes About Persistence

Truth did not care much about such credentials. It refused to give up and reveal itself just because it realized you were bound to find it eventually. Bean

The key. The world was full of locked doors, and he had to get his hands on every key.

Your motivation has to be rock solid. You have to want it so bad that even th threat of death won't take it from you.

Stubborn' just means you don't want to do something somebody else wants you to do, and 'annoying' just means somebody else is frustrated that you won't obey them.

You killed more people than anybody in history.' 'Be the best at whatever you do, that's what my mother always told me.

but you can't preserve at all.

The snake began to unweave itself from the rug again, only this time Ender did not hesitate. He stepped on the head of the snake and crushed it under his foot. It writhed and twisted under him, and in response he twisted and ground it deeper into the stone floor. Finally it was still. Ender picked it up and shook it, until it unwove itself and the pattern in the rug was gone. Then, still dragging the snake behind him, he began to look for a way out.

In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.

I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result.

The perfection is not so much in the performance as in the journey towards it. This is the joy. You must burn!

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

Tzu Chang asked Confucius about jen. Confucius said, If you can practice these five things with all the people, you can be called jen. Tzu Chang asked what they were. Confucius said, Courtesy, generosity, honesty, persistence, and kindness. If you are courteous, you will not be disrespected; if you are generous, you will gain everything. If you are honest, people will rely on you. If you are persistent you will get results. If you are kind, you can employ people.

The journey with a 1000 miles begins with one step.

It is when those who are not strong enough have made some moderate amount of progress that they fail and give up...

A man without persistence will never make a good shaman or a good physician.

Men do not stumble over mountains, but over molehills.

LEARN AS THOUGH YOU WOULD NEVER BE ABLE TO MASTER IT

Adept Lu spent a night at Stone Date, and the gatekeeper asked: Where are you from? From the House of Confucius, replied Lu. Isn't he the one who knows it's hopeless, but keeps trying anyway?

It doesn't matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop

It doesn't matter how slowly you go as long as you don't stop.

It does not matter how slowly you go, as long as you do not stop.

It doesn't matter how slowly you go so long as you don't stop.

If the search for riches were sure to be successful, though I should become a groom with a whip in my hand to get them, I will do so. As the search may not be successful, I will follow after that which I love.

The Master said, "I do not open the way for students who are not driven with eagerness; I do not supply a vocabulary for students who are not trying desperately to find the language for their ideas. If on showing students one corner they do not come back to me with the other three, I will not repeat myself.