Quotes About Persistence

Swinging at daisies is like playing electric guitar with a tennis racket: if it were that easy, we could all be Jerry Garcia. The ball changes everything.

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Don't look for your dreams to come true; look to become true to your dreams.

Don't be afraid to assert yourself, have confidence in your abilities and don't let the bastards get you down.

If you want a happy ending you have to go out and take it.

something I loved and trying to do it as well as I possibly could. In the end if I could give you one bit of advice, it would be that: find what you love, and do it as well as you can. Pursue your dream and, even if you never catch it, you'll enjoy the chase. The rest comes down to luck, timing and God: even if you don't believe in him, he believes in you. And when all of that runs out, use the difficulty.

In the end, if I could give you one bit of advice, it would be to find what you love and do it as well as you can. Pursue your dream. And, even if you never catch it, you'll enjoy the chase. The rest comes down to luck, timing, and God, even if you don't believe in Him, He believes in you.

No; he could be ruined again and again by hope, but he would never be capable of belief.

You can work really hard, but if you're not training in the right way you're not going to improve and get to the level that you want to.

Never give up on your dreams. Keep sleeping

You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more." ( "The Castle" )

You know you're going to get burned from time to time. It's just part of the game. So when it happens you have to pick yourself up, dust yourself off and forget about it because they're about to snap the ball again.

The planet has survived everything, in its time. It will certainly survive us.

Life will find a way.

But there are still the hours, aren't there? One and then another, and you get through that one and then, my god, there's another.

Go on. Go on", urged Billy in a soft voice. His eyes were large. He drew up his knees under the covers.

And yet. . . and yet, the ancient scar of Adam within his nature dragged him inexorably back, again and again, to this desire for certainty.

That which falls off a lorry belongs to he who follows the lorry.

A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.

The key to becoming an entrepreneur is to be willing to start your business all over again.

Once established, the level of "self" rarely changes unless a person makes a structured and long-term effort to change it.

What I've started I must finish. I've gone too far to turn back. Regardless of what may happen, I have to go forward.

Whenever I hear, 'It can't be done ' I know I'm close to success.

Follow your dreams, because you wouldn't want it so bad if you couldn't have it. The universe gives you these dreams because you can have them. If you're willing to work for it, you can have anything you want.