Quotes About Persistence

We try too much and trust too little. Count the times God's Book tells us to try. Now count the times it tells us to trust.

What our Heavenly Father wants us to do about our spiritual failures is like what our earthly father wants us to do about our earthly failures. When we fall off the horse, or the bike, or the high road to Heaven, we must simply climb on again as soon as we are aware of the fact that we have fallen off, rather than sitting there stewing in self-pity or self-hatred.

It's the most essential thing of all just because it's not a matter of how you do it at all, but of whether you do it. Like being born, or cooking: how you do it is less important than whether you do it. You can find thousands of books on prayer that give you methods of praying, hundreds of hows; but they do you no good at all unless you actually pray. Otherwise it's like reading a cookbook instead of cooking. You can't eat a cookbook!

he rewards our efforts with peace and joy.

Suppose the god, the goal of progress, is changing. Then progress becomes impossible. How could we progress toward a goal that keeps receding? How could a runner make progress toward a finish line if someone kept moving it as he ran?

a man circling around a woman, or a hunter circling around a deer.

One of Beethoven's biographers listed the three greatest and hardest human tasks as heroism, childbirth, and creative work. For

Back when Alistair had made his promise to Hope and Arthur. A promise that had been nearly impossible to keep.

dug itself into the

But the longing for Africa, once contracted, is an incurable condition which, like malaria, recurs again and again.

That's the only way to do it—go.

considerable

Don't accept the limitations of other people who claim things are 'unchangeable'. If it's written in stone, bring your hammer and chisel.

Stubborness is also determination. It's simply a matter of shifting from won't power to will power.

Do what you love and the necessary resources will follow.

Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get tough, but it's a small price to pay for living a dream.

If you are not actively involved in getting what you want, you don't really want it.

As Winston Churchill once said, "The Americans can always be counted upon to do the right thing, after they have exhausted all other possibilities.

What was it Beckett wrote? 'I can't go on. I'll go on.' Story of my life.

Traditional police wisdom has it that if a case doesn't yield leads in the first twenty-four hours, then everyone is in for a long, tough haul.

fundamental nature of success: it's hidden among failures.

fail and fail often—but keep the cost of each failure low, so that you can keep going until you succeed.

A fanatic is one who redoubles his effort when he has forgotten his aim.

Inspiration comes and goes, creativity is the result of practice.