Quotes About Persistence

I am not discouraged because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Don't waste your time trying to win people over that can never be won over.

Sometimes miracles happen in this world simply because good people take action and decide to do something, and never give up.

There's kind of a toll you have to pay with a cat; if you don't pet her for 10 minutes she'll bother you for six hours.

The scientific nature of the ordinary man is to go out and do the best you can.

If you are on the right path, it will always be uphill.

I was born by the river, in a little tent, and just like the river I've been running ever since.

Nintendo's philosophy is never to go the easy path; it's always to challenge ourselves and try to do something new.

In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.

Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.

Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.

I've never changed my life since I was 4 and went to the YMCA with a gym bag. I still have that philosophy. In fact, I still have that gym bag.

All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.

You might reduce Lombardi's coaching philosophy to a single sentence: In any game, you do the things you do best and you do them over and over and over.

My philosophy is, don't take no for an answer and be willing to sacrifice your entire project for freedom.

Making miracles is hard work, most people give up before they happen.

There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Live life, see it through. Carry on, it's all you can do.

To know the hight [sic] of a mountain, one must climb it.

As long as I draw breath and am able, I won't give up practicing philosophy.

Here is a philosophy of boldness to take advantage of every tiny opening toward victory.

An inventor is a man who asks 'Why?' of the universe and lets nothing stand between the answer and his mind.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

Life is a maze of doors and they all open from the side you're on. Just keep on pushing hard boy, try as you may, you're going to wind up where you started from.