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Quotes About Persistence

One has to crawl like a caterpillar before flying like a butterfly.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Ordinary people knock on doors, warriors break them down, but sages enter through the window.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Overnight success happens after a lifetime of sweat.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Paying the price for your dreams proves you can afford them.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Practice never makes you perfect, but it gets you closer to perfection.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Pursuing your dreams is the best way of insulating yourself from your nightmares.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Roadblocks sometimes merely indicate that you should come back later.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Short prayers with long legs travel far.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Small steps add up to complete big journeys.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Step by step a mountain is conquered.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Stumbling towards greatness is better than sprinting towards mediocrity.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Temporary failure will not prevent you from lasting success.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The brightest stars conquer the darkest skies.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The cream rises to the top, even if sour.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The higher the thoughts the greater the deeds.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The life you wish you had will come by working like you never have.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Today's amateurs are tomorrow's champions.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
What you lose pursuing your dreams is waiting for you once you achieve them.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
You cannot stop the ocean's current, but you can swim.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Your deepest valleys lead you to your highest mountaintops.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
First winter rain – I plod on, Traveller, my name.
~ Matsuo Bash?
Even though we both know that our loved one will never so much as look our way we can't erase that small something within us that continues to hope in vain.
~ Matsuri Hino
No matter how dim the light filtering through the trees is, you can still try your best to grasp it. -Kaien Cross
~ Matsuri Hino
Struggle until you can't struggle anymore. Just now you decided to live your life... Don't run away.
~ Matsuri Hino