Quotes About Persistence

You must see your goals clearly and specifically before you can set out for them. Hold them in your mind until they become second nature.

Nature does not care what we call it, she just keeps on doing it.

Active valour may often be the present of nature; but such patient diligence can be the fruit only of habit and discipline.

At what point in my struggle with nature will nature finally give up?

I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.

Records are made to be broken. It is in man's nature to continue to strive to do just that.

It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.

It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can.

People started down the road with good intentions, but the moment the road became rough or difficult, they'd abandon it.

Such fire was not by water to be drown'd, Nor he his nature changed by changing ground. [Lat., Ne spegner puo per star nell'acqua il foco; Ne puo stato mutar per mutar loco.]

It's human nature to quit when it hurts. But it's that reflex that creates scarcity.

Drive away what springs from nature; it returns at a gallop.

Thurst [thrust] out nature with a croche [crook], yet woll she styll runne back agayne.

Ability for stupendous toil is lodged in every human spirit, a grand gift from the God of nature; but only the persevering worker knows what this latent power is able to achieve.

Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque revenit. You can drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will nevertheless come back.

Nobody ever feels like they've arrived. That's just the nature of being a creative type of person. You always feel like you can get better or reach more people.

You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.

People do not persist in their vices because they are not weary of them, but because they cannot leave them off. It is the nature of vice to leave us no resource but in itself.

To get over a mountain, you have to climb it.

Passion is a realm of flow like a continuous flowing stream.

Even the faded flower denies nothingness.

Just because it doesn't happen within a wave of a wand, doesn't mean its not magic.

...life is extremely resilient but not infinitely so.

Like a tenacious ivy, your presence clings onto the drab wall of my existence. Cling harder onto me love, like a blood sucking bed-bug who is never satiated.