Quotes About Persistence

Keep your head down, fella. Do your job. Sell the product, write the contracts, negotiate the loans, attend the closings, bank your share and fatten the Keogh accordingly.

She trudged along, dutiful as a naughty child.

If you keep things in the front of your mind, you worry at them like a hound chomping a dead rabbit.

Ci sono persone che sognano il successo e altre che restano sveglie per ottenerlo.

The warrior learns to master the art of holding fast to dreams while accepting the rigors of becoming the kind of man who can be entrusted with those dreams;

It takes courage to seek God, and courage to wait for His reply.

El problema de la propia identidad no es exclusivo de los jóvenes. Es permanente. Es tal vez el problema por excelencia. Puede perseguirnos en la vejez y, cuando ya no lo hace, es que nos está indicando que estamos muertos.

Effective prayer is often like the felling of a great tree—it takes repeated blows.

When the going gets tough, the tuff get going.

Just because we cannot see clearly te end of the road, that is no reason for not setting out on the essential journey.

The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardner objected that the tree was slow growing and wouldn't reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!

know that this is a very long way, therefore patience is necessary in this

give attendance to the accomplishment only and let other things pass.

I knew I would always want to go on living with myself, however hollow I became, however diseased.

M. How do you think Christianity started? Or anything else? With a little group of people who didn't give up hope.

It's like being halfway through the book. I can't just throw it in the dustbin.

No matter what we're trying to accomplish, there's always a barrier of some kind to overcome, and it's often something over which we have no control. Instead of focusing on the barriers, let's work to become so good that we'll succeed no matter how many bad calls the ref may throw at us.

The main difference between those who succeed in life and those who fail is the knowledge of how to get back up.

Quitting is not the answer. Life is not fair, and you can't quit every time something unfair happens to you.

Anyone can cook a trout. The real art is in hooking the damned thing.

Dear Mrs. Black: On seven prior occasions this company has denied your claim in writing. We now deny it for the eighth and final time. You must be stupid, stupid stupid, stupid!

It takes just one, he says over and over. You hear that all the time in this business. One big case, and you can retire. That's one reason lawyers do so many sleazy things, like full-color ads in the yellow pages, and billboards, and placards on city buses, and telephone solicitation. You hold your nose, ignore the stench of what you're doing, ignore the snubs and snobbery of big-firm lawyers, because it takes only one.

Rejection comes easy, because you learn quickly that the worst thing that can happen is to hear the word no

And the voice will tell you to pick yourself up, to set a goal, to work harder than anybody else, stick to the basics, execute perfectly, be confident, be brave, and never, never quit. The voice is never far away.