Quotes About Persistence

She felt at home in the lab. It was a quiet temple for individual persistence and contemplation. She could be creative and independent as she pursued a path toward her own discoveries.

Pauli Murray perfected two characteristics of leadership: indomitable persistence and relentless self-invention.

Leaders aren't just the few famous people who dominate the news or find their place in history books. They don't always represent the majority. They aren't always popular. They don't always win, and they aren't always remembered. Leaders such as Pauli Murray, brave and obscure men and women who act on their convictions even though they fail time and time again, sometimes change the course of history.

Diligence is the mother of good luck 

Time is like a river," Coydog had told the boy. "It come up behind ya hard and just keep right on goin'. You couldn't stop it no more than you could fly away.

Most of human life is defined by waiting

No fighter ever won his fight by covering up—by merely fending off the other fellow's blows. The winner hits and keeps on hitting even though he has to take some stiff blows in order to be able to keep on hitting. —ADMIRAL ERNEST J. KING, Commander in Chief, U.S. Fleet, 1942

I never let the thought of failure enter my mind. My knowledge of my unity with the Universal One and the fact that I must do this thing, and the inspired belief that I should do it as a demonstration of my belief in man's unlimited power, made me ignore the difficulties that lay in the way. (p. 19)

Chapter XX Happy's the wooing That's not long a-doing

We don't have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest.

Never give up searching for the job that you are passionate about

Read 500 pages like this every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up, like compound interest. All of you can do it, but I guarantee not many of you will do it.

Read 500 pages like this every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up, like compound interest. All of you can do it, but I guarantee not many of you will do it. — Warren Buffett

Every law that curbs my basic human freedom; every lie about the things I care for; every crime committed against me by their politics; that what's makes me get up and hound these fuckers, and I'll do that until the day I die... or until my brain dries up or something.

a super-rat. I nailed it across the eyes once with a lucky shot with the butt of my gun, but it got up again and shat in my telephone.

He took a deep breath and got a noseful of sun-warmed dog shit for his trouble.

if we're having a bad time now, we were given a really rockbottom thorough training for it these past three hundred years and more." "Past is past," Mister Eddie says and he said it real easy. "Except when it's present," Lance says.

It helps to have dreams if you pursue them in reality.

It's never crowded along the extra mile

You must attach yourself spiritually to what you have placed in your imagination as a future fact, and never allow anyone, anything, any circumstance, no matter how persuasive their case, to alter what you know to be your destiny.

Whether it's your health, wealth, happiness, or any other element of your entire life experience, it is essential to keep in mind the importance of the movement of your attention. You must be obstinate and persistent in not allowing the viewpoints or information of others to alter your inner world. You know what you wish to become and what you would like to manifest for yourself.

If you are facing in the right direction, all you need to do is keep on walking.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

It's never crowded along the extra mile.