Quotes About Persistence

Every disciplined effort has its own multiple reward.

The ability to delay gratification is intimately linked with success. You cannot succeed at anything unless you are willing and able to delay gratification.

When you are discouraged or caught up in procrastination, simply do the tiniest thing to move whatever you are working on forward.

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education alone will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

In every moment of every day, resistance is there, waiting to pounce. The hardest war to win is one you don't even realize you are fighting, and the hardest enemy to defeat is the one you don't even know exists. Every day you are at war with resistance.

In every moment of every day, resistance is there, waiting to pounce. The hardest war to win is one you don't even realize you are fighting, and the hardest enemy to defeat is the one you don't even know exists. Every day you are at war with resistance. Make no mistake, resistance is your enemy. It will not quietly go away and leave you alone. You have to slay it like a dragon, and you have to slay it anew each day.

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You cannot succeed at anything unless you are willing and able to delay gratification...Resistance hates discipline. It hates self-control. Resistance abhors delayed gratification and any type of self-denial that makes your heart, mind, and soul strong.

You cannot succeed at anything unless you are willing to delay gratification. This ability and success are intimately linked. ACTION STEP Say no to yourself at least once every day.

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about redeeming them—every day begin anew.

Resistance will tell you that the problems are too many and that you will never make a difference. Ignore it. Resistance is a liar.

Remember - try to stay focused on progress, not perfection.

Way is not a talk. It is a walk. You can

My hero is always 10 years away. I'm never gonna be my hero. I'm not gonna obtain that, I know I'm not. And that's just fine with me cuz' that keeps me with somebody to keep on chasin'.

Life is a series of commas, not periods.

I love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art. There are no rules. And if it comes down to me versus that weed I'm trying to pull out of the ground that doesn't want to come out? I know I'll win.

it doesn't take much courage to fight when you still believe you can win. What takes real courage is to keep fighting when all hope is gone.

Never give up, Never say die.

Matthew Rossi

The point wasn't always to do what you want. The point was to do what you did and to do it well. She had worked hard for years, and if she had nothing to show for it but her house and her son's education, there was still the fact of its having happened, which no one could erase from the record of human lives, even if no one was keeping one.

The point wasn't always to do what you want. The point was to do what you did and to do it well.

Take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves," Lord Chesterfield once told his son. This is the best path to gradual change.

In vain he flees his troubles on a horse — They share the saddle and see him on his course.4

I thought I should go to New York because it was the place to go to study. I went and tried to get an application from the Juilliard School but they wouldn't even give me one because I didn't have my high school graduation.