Quotes About Persistence

If something is not good enough, stop doing it.

Ideas are worthless. Execution is everything.

Be eager in your desires but humbly patient in their accomplishment.

Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself.

Sometimes you have to do something you dislike to create something you desire.

If you're not getting the things you want, need or desire, it's because you have not accepted that you can have them.

Failure doesn't kill you... it increases your desire to make something happen.

Desire outweighs footwork when it comes to crashing the glass

Riches don't respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence.

Should you desire the great tranquility prepare to sweat white beads.

Perseverance, determination, commitment, and courage-those things are real. The desire for redemption drives you.

Desire means never quit.

If you desire to dig a well to reach water, your efforts are more fruitful if you dig one 100-foot-deep hole than if you dig ten holes each 10 feet deep.

Be not in the desire of thine own ease.

It's hard to explain but I have a need to play intensely every day, to fight every match hard. And this desire never to stop fighting is something else I learnt in the place where I grew up.

When I go after something, I go after it hard. It has always been that way. I don't know. It's in my blood.

A BURNING DESIRE TO BE, AND TO DO is the starting point from which the dreamer must take off. Dreams are not born of indifference, laziness, or lack of ambition.

What we insistently desire, over time, is what we become.

Mere literary talent is common; what is rare is endurance, the continuing desire to work hard at writing.

Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.

The distance between a person's dream and their accomplishments can only be measured by their desire.

Anyone can desire anything, but if you're not going to commit, you're not getting it.