Quotes About Persistence

Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle.

When we find ourselves up against practical obstacles that can't be overcome, we must go forward. You either make the film as you can or don't make it at all.

Lord grant that I might always desire more than I can accomplish.

If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all.

Genius is eternal patience.

Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I accomplish.

Patience is eternal genius

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

The logic of incrementalism is that by asking for a little bit at a time and winning a little bit at a time, you can eventually achieve the full complement of your goals.

Sometimes we have to wait for what we want...Even when we want it very, very much.

He'd take his time. All good things came to those who danced when others least expected to find anything on the head of a pin.

Impossible is just another word for 'loser who gives up.

Don't let them make you doubt yourself. All the greatest visionaries in history have been told they were insane at some point.

Note that he said, "…but I am going to try to work on my marriage." My mother, a therapist, used to say, "There are those who try and those who do." I agree wholeheartedly. "Trying" connotes tentativeness, when what

It's the pressing on toward the goal that is important, not simply trying to look perfect or be perfect. And it's also important to forget what is behind us, because we cannot change our pasts. We can, however, look forward and fix our eyes on Jesus as we listen to His direction.

The dreams that were buried the deepest were the hardest to get rid of.

You can't change the desert. You can only take the fastest course through it. Wishing it's an oasis won't make it so...

You can't change the desert. You can only take the fastest course through it. Wishing it's an oasis won't make it so, Mutnodjmet.

I never cut class. I loved getting A's, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.

So I've got to find a mountiain that nobody's ever seen. And work out the answer to a riddle that nobody's ever solved. And kill a bear that nobody can fight." Renn sucked in her breath. "You've go to try."

In the early 1900s an American named Fanny Bullock Workman unfurled a 'Votes For Women' banner high in the Karakorams, and left her visiting card in a glass jar on one of the peaks.

Stop judging your life only by the failures," he whispered. "What should I do?" she whispered. "I'm always going to fail." "We all do," he said softly, his voice closer now. "We all fail. But none of us fail all the time.

have to work through some problems, period.