Quotes About Persistence

Why don't the spirits just tell us things, Henry? How come they make it so hard? The old man laughed. I think it is like this. The spirits shoot an arrow. It is past us before we can see it clearly. But if we follow, eventually we come to the place where it has lodged. And we realize the arrow is not important. What is important is the place it has guided us to.

We were too sick of the case to talk about it anymore but too obsessed with it to talk about anything else.

It's funny what kind of hell you can get used to.

He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

Dreams and Dedication are a powerful combination.

Dream and Dedication are a powerful combination.

What matters, though, is not the space you're put in to work; what matters is the work you do in it. The Manhattan Project, the World War II race to develop the atomic bomb, also started out under a football stadium. Beneath the stands of Stagg Field at the University of Chicago, a team of physicists led by Enrico Fermi built a crude fission reactor, brought its uranium fuel to critical mass, and set off a chain reaction that changed the world. We

The Union will awaken. It always has. We always will.

Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.

To endure is greater than to dare to tire out hostile fortune to be daunted by no difficulty to keep heart when all have lost it -- who can say this is not greatness

Everyone is hungry. That won't stop

Art is like hard digging. Without daily searching, nothing can be found. Art is like hard digging. Without daily searching, nothing can be found.

Angela Duckworth has shown how important grit and perseverance are to lifetime outcomes. College students who report that they finish whatever they begin have higher grades than their peers, even ones with higher SATs.

People tend to overstate my resilience, but, of course, I hope they're right.

Learn to swim, and then swim. -John Lennon when asked, "What's the meaning of life?

All those train songs, all that running... Merle never ends up anywhere any better. But he does get gone.

To the extent I am good at anything other than falling down, it is getting back up, at overcoming low expectations—many of them my own—to do things I didn't think I was capable of.

Rats—humans too—continue to push on the bar in the cage of our existence looking for a reward past the point of reason because, every once in a while, something unthinkably delicious comes down the tube.

I've been able to go on and have a successful career on Broadway and certainly the last five years in Las Vegas have been amazing.

Its not how you start your life its how you finish it

It's those that fight hardest for freedom who are never free.

If We Quit Trying, It All Goes in the Sh-tter.

In my experience the most crucial predictor of recovery is a persistent willingness to exert some effort to help yourself. Given this attitude, you will succeed.