Quotes About Persistence

Not how the kittens suffered during those weeks they were wandering inside the dark building with no way out—though surely there's something there too—but how they saved themselves. How frightened those kittens were, and yet how they persisted. How when two strangers offered up their palms, they stepped in.

Carry it with me, as I do everything that matters.

What I meant when I said that Hillary Clinton had made the world ready for Hillary Clinton is that I recognized her as a woman who had whacked the weeds to blaze her own trail, who had always stood up again after she was told to sit down, who had persisted, and persisted, and persisted, nevertheless. What I meant is that a woman like this was finally going to win. Someday she will.

Success doesn't just come to lucky people or those perceived to be lucky, rather success comes to those who are more persistent than most others.

A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.

And what happens when we do better? Does the doubt go away? Of course not; we just doubt things on an entirely new level. So we keep trying. And the bigger the doubts, the harder we try.

We can't turn our backs on this." "I know we can't. It's following us.

Hope, like the dim glow from a flashlight with a dying battery, lingered.

Two thousand miles to dine on a dish of red herring," he said.

Don't quit. It will happen one day.

There you go. I've told you the four thunderstorms—disappointment, frustration, unfairness and isolation. You cannot avoid them, as like the monsoon, they will come into your life at regular intervals. You just need to keep the raincoat handy to not let the spark die. I

Things won't change much and things won't change fast.

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But it will work, man. If you put your heart into it, it will.

Girls have no idea how much it hurts when our love is rejected. Yet, men are expected to keep trying and take hits all the time.

General Howard informed me, in a haughty spirit, that he would give my people 30 days to go back home, collect all their stock, and move onto the reservation.

Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure… it does mean you haven't succeeded yet.

Failure is not frailty. Success never guarantees.

It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final.

He couldn't get a ball to stay on the alley. When he had fired about fifteen balls and hadn't yet reached the cluster of pins, his annoyance began to show out through his clothes. He wouldn't let it show in his face; but after another fifteen balls he was not able to control his face; he didn't utter a word, but he exuded mute blasphemy from every pore.

Even when tied in a thousand knots, the string is still but one.

To cut the Gordian knot is not the same as to untie it. Children and lunatics cut what the poet patiently spends his life in trying to untie.

If 80 percent of success is showing up, then 20 percent is following up.