Quotes About Persistence

When you get the end of your rope, tie a knot & hold on!

One way to get yourself started in spite of Resistance is to set a timer for ten minutes, and promise yourself that if you feel like stopping when the timer goes off, you can.

It is better to wear out than to rust out." —President Millard Fillmore

Better to say "I tried and failed and moved on" than "I never tried because I thought I might fail.

Haig said, "Victory will belong to the side which holds out the longest." What a pathetic admission!

I chose to do something everyone else was rubbish at in the hope that I would shine," he said.

He just carried on being dead

Because sometimes you need to start at the beginning in order to make sense of the end. *

Writing as proven to be hard work, often painful. I can honestly say I would rather be fishing.

I'm not the smartest guy, but I can outwork you. It's the one thing I can control.

Hard work is good for the soul," she would say. "And it keeps you from feeling sorry for yourself, because you don't have time.

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. —VINCE LOMBARDI Steve

You're the one with the badge," I admitted, "but I'm the one being haunted by a seven-year-old in a ballerina costume.

The jerboa] survives depravity not by adopting habits of better-known species but by adapting creatively to the unique rigors of its environment. Although Moore's animals do have innately poetic qualities, such as the jerboa's rhythmic leaps, the poems emphasize what she would later identify as her most valuable assets as an artist: persistence and fortitude. Her animal poems are both instructions in the art of survival and acts of survival themselves.

Not by the hair on my chinny chin chin

Being able to say "I'll try again" is one of the deepest expressions of faith in oneself. When

One step at a time... one day at a time. Just today-just this day to get through... Salva told himself this every day. He told the boys in the group, too. And one day at a time, the group made it's way to Kenya. More than twelve hundred boys arrived safely. It took them a year and a half.

Stay calm when things are hard or not going right with you. You will get through it when you persevere instead of quitting. Quitting leads to much less happiness in life than perseverance and hope. Salva Dut Rochester, New York 2010

A step at a time. One problem at a time—just figure out this one problem. Day by day, solving one problem at a time, Salva moved toward his goal.

To young people, I would like to say: Stay calm when things are hard or not going right with you. You will get through it when you persevere instead of quitting. Quitting leads to much less happiness in life than perseverance and hope.

Quitting leads to much less happiness in life than perseverance and hope.

We've survived the Black Plague, the Titanic, and Pearl Harbor just to name a few. Not to mention the Disco Period.

Fooling around with alternating current is just a waste of time. Nobody will use it, ever." Thomas Edison, 1889

This love is a lichen.... etching on the unmoved rock the only rune it knows.