Quotes About Persistence

Sometimes just overcoming one objection can lead to a sale.

What else changes a person but the living of a story? And what is a story but the wanting for something difficult and the willingness to work for it?

the biggest little thing for entrepreneurs is the lifelong commitment to education.

that if you try once, you should try again. Keep that focus exactly where it should be—on winning.

Nothing worth doing ever, ever, ever came easy.

The future belongs to the dreamers, not to the critics. The future belongs to the people who follow their heart no matter what the critics say, because they truly believe in their vision.

No one has ever achieved anything significant without a chorus of critics standing on the sidelines explaining why it can't be done.

My style of deal-making is quite simple and straightforward. I aim very high, and then I just keep pushing and pushing and pushing to get what I'm after. Sometimes I settle for less than I sought, but in most cases I still end up with what I want

To be successful in the world of entrepreneurs, especially in the early stages, a person must learn to fail, correct, learn, apply what was learned, and fail again.

Is this what retirement would be for him? he wondered. Sticking his nose into other people's business whenever he had the feeling that something wasn't consistent in a story? Must every death come in a tidy package before ex-Commissario Brunetti would leave it alone and let people get on with their lives?

come face to face with this reminder of what we all know and feel uncomfortable knowing: that life plugs along, no matter what happens to any of us. It puts one foot in front of the other, whistling a tune that is dreary or merry by turn, but it always puts one foot in front of the other and moves on.

The world won't come to me...so I must go to it.

Yet my longing for her was like a bad cold that had hung on for years despite my conviction that I was sure to get over it at any moment.

no matter how hard I tried to wish him out of the picture—for there he always was, in my hands and my voice and my walk...

And if what she'd wanted had been impossible from the start, still there was a certain lonely comfort in the fact that she'd known it was impossible and had gone ahead and done it anyway.

Wade straight through life, right through the cesspool, while keeping eyes and heart open.

Maybe even if we're not always so glad to be here it's our task to immerse ourselves anyway: wade straight through it, right through the cesspool, while keeping eyes and hearts open.

even if we're not always so glad to be here, it's our task to immerse ourselves anyway: wade straight through it, right through the cesspool, while keeping eyes and hearts open.

My father was mean, and our house ugly, and my mother didn't pay much attention to me; my clothes were cheap and my haircut too short and no one at school seemed to like me that much; and since all this had been true for as long as I could remember, I felt things would doubtless continue in this depressing vein as far as I could foresee.

Twelve years ago, in vision or reality, I certainly saw you. I could not forget your face. It has remained before my eyes ever since.

Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons, but they are helpless against our prayers.

classmate of mine once complained to a professor about a book he was required to read. He claimed it was as dry as dust. "Well," said the professor, "why don't you dampen it with a little sweat from your

A dreamer will not stop having that dream until it has been fulfilled

Hurdles are there to jump over not to stand in front and wonder