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Quotes About Persistence

The problem is that most of us have uphill dreams but downhill habits.
~ John C. Maxwell
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
~ John C. Maxwell
Moving uphill requires intentionality, energy, determination, hard work, and consistency.
~ John C. Maxwell
3. The Unrealistic Expectation Trap For some reason, many people think everything in life should be easy, and when they find out that achievement takes effort, they give up. But success takes hard work.
~ John C. Maxwell
You must have a long-range vision to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures." —CHARLES NOBLE
~ John C. Maxwell
only people who can see the invisible can do the impossible.
~ John C. Maxwell
Failures, repeated failures, are finger-prints on the road to achievement. .
~ Unknown
His right hand had been chopped off at the wrist by one of Mussolini's public executioners, and now that the old man's enemies were dead, he carried the stump proudly.
~ John Cheever
This is the extraordinary thing about creativity: If you just keep your mind resting against the subject in a friendly but persistent way, sooner or later you will get a reward from your unconscious.
~ John Cleese
And so Graham and I finally got down to our first film script, and I can say with complete confidence that we had absolutely no idea what we were doing. Of course, we had no idea we had no idea what we were doing, and that meant our enthusiasm stayed intact.
~ John Cleese
Getting discouraged is a total waste of your time.
~ John Cleese
The key thing is to start, even if it feels as though you're forcing yourself through an emotional roadblock.
~ John Cleese
John Cody Fidler-Simpson
~ Unknown
Thus she abides; her Towers forever rising, forever vanishing. Never or Always.
~ John Cowper Powys
But this was only the first move, so to speak, in Sir Mort's intercourse with the cosmic multiplicity. The next thing this crazy owner of Roque must needs do was to pull himself out of the hole into which he had descended with such persistence and proceed to shoot himself through the air! On this air-borne quest he was careful to avoid every conceivable collision. He avoided the Moon and he avoided every planet. He avoided all the falling stars.
~ John Cowper Powys
Life may seem hard sometimes. When it gets tough, never give up on what you can't achieve. Keep finding, and never quit. Because, someday clues will come to you.
~ Unknown
No matter how hard I try, life just wont let me get what I try. But I wont give up.
~ Unknown
Yes, the hardest is the beginning. Yes, you get swallowed due to your feelings and suffocated from one opinion. But you have to just continue living.
~ Unknown
The last battle always seems the toughest and to give up will always bring the worst defeat.
~ Terry Mark
You think you cant go on but truth is you can just give it a little more time and hold onto the moments that made you for who you are don't give up keep going that extra mile I'm here to help you if you want but never back down.
~ Unknown
You have to fight through the bad days in order to earn the best days.
~ Unknown
They say all good things come to those who wait. What they don't say is how much crap you have to go through while your waiting!!
~ Unknown
I feel like whenever I find the key to happiness, someone changes the lock.
~ Unknown
Life is hard and it can be made easier only by working hard.
~ Unknown