Quotes About Persistence

Rodearán las ciénagas, no las atravesarán con dificultad.

If at first you don't succeed - you haven't planned properly!

You're made to feel ugly, and I made ugly beautiful. Just by sheer persistence. Nobody has the right to say that I am ugly, and I will not be a professional victim, you know. Sorry!

Which raises another question: How does one know when one knows? In turn this leads to more practical questions: How does one know when to continue to push an experiment? And how does one know when to abandon a clue as a false trail?

But how does one know when to persist, when to continue to try to make an experiment work, when to make adjustments—and when finally to abandon a line of thought as mistaken or incapable of solution with present techniques?

meal" every day. All these sacrifices were of

At the top of the page is a photo of sunrise as seen from space, and in between are the words "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." Brand intended the photo as a way to describe living a life open to serendipity. As Jobs put it, "I have always wished that for myself.

Success consists of a series of little daily victories.

It takes as long as it takes.

I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.

Whose school-hours are all the days and nights of our existence.

Capitalism would have never let me be a filmmaker, living in Flint, Michigan with a high school education. I was going to have to make that happen myself.

It is not a matter of who is rejecting me, as much as it is somebody may get it, and I am going to keep plowing through it because in this world of education, there is a harvest.

Education isn't a magic pill. There is no magic pill. But the closest we have is practical expertise and relentless drive.

I had no real education because I was in and out of schools so I decided that I would completely change my look, change my image, change my name and move to New York.

My husband managed to cram four years of college into five.

Doggedness depends on emotional traits - enthusiasm and persistence in the face of setbacks - above all else.

Emotional maturity is the ability to stick to a job and to struggle through until it is finished, to endure unpleasantness, discomfort and frustration.

If you dont have an emotional connection to why you are trying to accomplish your goals, the odds are you wont reach them or will quit trying.

even after every emotional accident, the show must go on.

You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.

Dripping water hollows out a stone

The funny thing about sustainability is you gotta sustain it.

A capacity to change is indispensable. Equally indispensable is the capacity to hold fast to that which is good.