Quotes About Persistence

Benjamin Franklin said, "Energy and persistence conquer all things."79

many people who failed did so because they gave up without realizing how close to success they were.

Everyone has the will to win, but it's only those with the will to prepare that do win.

I have so many things to work on, and so many ways that I fail. But that's what grace is all about. and I constantly wake up every morning trying to get better, trying to improve, trying to walk closer to God.

Life is made out of Thursday afternoons. You just keep having them one after the other and let everything else take care of itself.

We all want something that sticks

The only way you're going to get something to last in this world is to work at it

It's too big to change. It's too heavy and all sharp-cornered and shit.

Absolutely. We all want something that sticks." I don't mention that wanting it is a whole different thing from actually believing you can get it.

Sabemos lo que nos espera: el futuro nos aguarda allí enfrente, como reja de hierro forjado, y el pasado nos ataca desde la retaguarda como un dóberman perverso, solo que nunca se da por vencido.

Anything's worth working for if you want it enough.

Everyone will tell you your goal is impossible, pointless, stupid, wasteful. So you hang tough. You back yourslef and only yourself.

That which is good or great makes itself known, no matter how loud the clamor of denial. That which deserves to live - lives.

ground. In 1917, about forty-five

The dust blew all over the Great Plains, but the worst and most persistent storms were in parts of five states—southern Colorado, southwestern Kansas, the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles, and northeastern New Mexico.

Most of the writers I know work every day, in obscurity and close to poverty, trying to say one thing well and true. Day in, day out, they labor to find their voice, to learn their trade, to understand nuance and pace. And then, facing a sea of rejections, they hear about something like Barbara Bush's dog getting a book deal.

I'll take the advice of Labre, the patron saint of wandering souls, who grew up not far from here: 'There is no way. The way is made by walking.

Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to being a winner

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. —GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, Maxims for Revolutionists

Learn to be difficult when it counts

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.' You won't believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.

When you try to do something big its hard to fail completely.

If you want an average, successful life, it doesn't take much planning. Just stay out of trouble, go to school, and apply for jobs you might like. But if you want something extraordinary, you have two paths: 1) Become the best at one specific thing. 2) Become very good (top 25%) at two or more things. The

The decent method you follow is better than the perfect method you quit.