Quotes About Persistence

Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go

People who tried to start at an advanced age, meaning over fourteen, had, in my experience, almost no chance of becoming proficient, and usually suffered pain and sorrow before they quit.

Never permit failure to become a habit.

William Frederick Halsey (Jr.)

Magicians are not made, they make themselves.

Sometimes any move at all is better than nothin. If you're right you're one up. If you're wrong you start over.

Stand high long enough and your lightning will come.

He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.

I compensate for the lack of intellect with more discipline and steadiness and persistence.

One of the nice things about video games as a metaphor is that you die all the time," he explained. "You play, you play, you play, you die. You play, you play, you die." It's a harmless way of learning "to accept constant loss and defeat over and over again. And it doesn't bother you. You just keep doing it. And that's what investing is.

Fifth, in a world that's increasingly geared toward short-termism and instant gratification, a tremendous advantage can be gained by those who move consistently in the opposite direction

Dost thou fill thy chest with dirt, and expect to find gold when thou openest it?

A weak hand with a sincere heart is able to turn the key in prayer.

The believer is to persevere in his Christian course to the end of his life: his work and his life must go off the stage together.

They use faith as an eye but not as a hand; they look for victory to drop from heaven upon their heads, but do not fight to obtain it.

Dost thou not betray some of this spiritual pride working in thee? O, if thou couldst pray without wandering, walk without limping, believe without wavering, then thou couldst rejoice and walk cheerfully.

I keep [a] subject constantly before me," Newton once remarked, "and wait 'till the first dawnings open slowly, by little and little, into a full and clear light.

The line of least resistance makes crooked rivers and crooked men. Each fish that battles upstream is worth ten that loaf in lazy bays.

The things that stayed were things that didn't matter except they stayed, night and day, all seasons the same, and were peaceful to a fault and boded no ill but thought well enough of themselves to repeat their presences.

She crowds each moment with endeavor.

Excellence is inconveniently difficult.

There's only one growth strategy: work hard.

Whatever necessities you require, work to get them. If you fail to get something, then smile and try again in a different way. If you succeed, then enjoy what you get, but without attachment.