Quotes About Persistence

First we molt, then spin a web, after this we weave, until our food is dead. Next dancing a jig, And waiting for a meal, Then we wrestle a bit Til we sit and eat our fill." Captain Muntweight

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Remember, to get what you've never had, you must do what you've never done. But to get what you once had, you must do what you once did.

But if we've honestly done everything we can, by definition we can't do anything more.

You win when you quit trying.

God calls you to stand. Your enemy wants you to fall. So as God's warrior, there are only two acceptable actions. You're either standing or you're getting back up. Even if Satan trips you, you're not down forever. Get back up. Never stay down.

For many of us, it's just one thing standing in our way of completely following Jesus.

Good habits are difficult to start because the pain comes now and the payoff is in the future. Bad habits are difficult to stop because the payoff comes now and the pain is in the future.

I think God eventually changed my heart simply because I clung to my desire for Him, even though I wasn't sure how to follow through on that desire.

So if it seems like you're doing something different from what everyone else is doing, and if sometimes that feels hard, this is a good thing, not a bad thing.

What one promise do you need to claim? Find it. Don't give up. Cling to it.

It's never about who's the fastest, strongest, toughest—it's always about who, when everyone else would pause, will commit.

don't care how big they are, boys; they can't do anything if you get 'em up off the ground.

You keep going, and you hope for the best, and sometimes, maybe not very often, your hopes come true.

Trees teach us patience, but grass teaches us persistence.

Ozzie's head remained

I haven't figured out how to turn it on, but when I do I'm going to be hell on wheels.

Sometimes when there aren't any other options you should just stay crazy.

So I did in fact spend two and a half years in the Middlesbrough car park practising skills. But if you spend four or five or six hours a day practising, you get better.

The only ammunition against reckless discouragement is relentless devotion.

Don't ever stop living for anything. Chase your dreams, and catch them shits!

It took seven hours to get Thomas Kilgannon

Life might be easier if you give in a little, but it's better if you hold onto something so hard you can't give it up.

Oprah Winfrey said in a Harvard commencement speech in 2013, "There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.