Quotes About Persistence

And if only it would stop, shut itself up for good- this off-key 'if only' that goes on singing, like some deranged child, repeating.

Life moved on like a river, and water could not long remember the bruise it had received from a rock upstream.

once you commit, don't hesitate or skimp. Do it right.

Any idiot can face a crisis—it's day to day living that wears you out.

The hacker didn't succeed through sophistication. Rather he poked at obvious places, trying to enter through unlock doors. Persistence, not wizardry, let him through.

No one knows why we do it and when we've done it rarely does anyone want it. Yet still we do it. That's what being a writer is.

Patience isn't a gift. It is learned.

A writer is someone who writes every day and is unhappy if he doesn't.

The extra mile is a lot longer than the rest.

Our lives will never be perfect no matter how hard we persevere and do good things each day. We may be hurt or humbled, but we will never give up to keep on standing in the midst of hot or cold weather.

People will keep on doing the same things they like to do in many places not because they don't care about others. They just keep on holding on to opportunities while chances are still not ceased.

People do not comply because they do not accede. But when they know they will succeed, that is the time they will concede.

Persistence is not defiance, but lawlessness is.

Religion is not the existence of knowing, but the practice of persistence by insisting.

Stubbornness is not the opposite of leniency, but the extension of tolerance.

The journey in life never stops as long as you look forward.

The law of gravity is like any human problem or any testing situation. You can defy it, but the longer you hold on to it, the heavier it gets.

There is greed in questioning if you keep on asking the same question.

There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can.

I still work out on a daily basis.

I do make an attempt to always get that first take…. You're not stepping up to bunt. You're stepping up to hit the damn thing.

Work hard, keep your nose clean, and just stick around.

Clint Richmond

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently." — ... "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." — ... "If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." —