Quotes About Persistence

All her life, loneliness had weighed against her like a heavy coin tucked into a breast pocket, small but constant.

A man's got to keep company a long time, and come early and stay late and sit close, before he can get a girl or a job worth having.

You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.

It's been my experience that every man has in him the possibility of doing well some one thing, no matter how humble, and that there's some one, in some place, who wants that special thing done. The difference between a fellow who succeeds and one who fails is that the first gets out and chases after the man who needs him, and the second sits around waiting to be hunted up.

There's nothing comes without calling in this world, and after you've called you've generally got to go and fetch it yourself.

Sometimes the wheel turns slowly, but it turns.

Have you ever wanted something so badly that you would do anything, believe anything in order to acquire it?

Gentlemen, if I truly want something, you do not have it within your power to stop me from obtaining it.

But that inadequacy, or feeling of inadequacy, never really goes away. You just have to trudge ahead in the rain, regardless.

Do not spend much of your energy trying to move a large rock, instead move as many smaller stones as you can

Heaven belongs to the impetuous who won't wait.

If you don't make a total commitment to whatever you're doing, then you start looking to bail out the first time the boat starts leaking. It's tough enough getting that boat to shore with everybody rowing, let alone when a guy stands up and starts putting his jacket on.

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.

You have it in your power to turn a bad-beat around simply by realizing this simple truth: The more bad beats you encounter, the luckier you are. It's a sign that you are playing against opponents who continually take the worst of it, and if you can't beat someone who always takes the worst of it, you can't beat anyone.

As with most things in life, it's that little hop at the end…

Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is for a partner it doesn't turn to those who believe that they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever searching and striving to become the best they possibly can. If we seek the average level, we cannot hope to achieve a higher level of success. Our only hope is to avoid being a failure.

The Enemy, however, was working in his life just like he does in ours: waiting him out. The Enemy is a patient foe and deceives us into thinking we can manage. We assume if Satan can't take us out on night one, he'll give up. But Satan will wait us out for decades if necessary.

Chances are good that you once had a dream—a big, noble, beautiful dream—that you could envision coming true, but that dream was snatched away. An experience like that leaves you longing for a comeback.

A lot of writers ... sit in a log cabin by the lake and put their feet up by the fire in the silence and write. If you can have that that's all very well, but the true writer will learn to write anywhere -- even in prison.

I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you're good at.

I've learned from experience that if you work harder at it, and apply more energy and time to it, and more consistency, you get a better result. It comes from the work.

There are no shortcuts in evolution.

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.