Quotes About Persistence

Whether or not you can never become great at something, you can always become better at it. Don't ever forget that! And don't say "I'll never be good". You can become better! and one day you'll wake up and you'll find out how good you actually became.

Keep on starting and finishing will take care of itself.

Do not lose hope — what you seek will be found. Trust ghosts. Trust those that you have helped to help you in their turn. Trust dreams. Trust your heart, and trust your story. (from 'Instructions')

Hearts may break, but hearts are the toughest of muscles, able to pump for a lifetime, seventy times a minute, and scarcely falter along the way. Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkably difficult to kill.

You have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen.

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion; you must set yourself on fire.

Neil S. Plakcy

New York Times

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I mean, if you give in when you're eighteen and a half, you'll give in for the rest of your life, don't you think?

In life, people tend to wait for good things to come to them. And by waiting, they miss out. Usually, what you wish for doesn't fall in your lap; it falls somewhere nearby, and you have to recognize it, stand up, and put in the time and work it takes to get to it. This isn't because the universe is cruel. It's because the universe is smart. It has its own cat-string theory and knows we don't appreciate things that fall into our laps.

As long as you show that you're willing to take it further than them, they'll tend to back off, whoever they may be.

A job is never truly finished. It just reaches a stage where it can be left on its own for a while.

Sometimes shit happens even if you have a shit shield

When a boat come upon a winding river, slow down and the river becomes straight.

Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

Quitting is leading too.

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

Once a person is determined to help themselves, there is nothing that can stop them.

Difficulties break some men but make others

Don't Judge a person by his success stories, but only with how many times the person stood up, after falling down.