Quotes About Persistence

Whatsoever you desire, believe you have received it and you will." That's how easily you apply it, for an assumption, though false and denied by your senses, if persisted in will harden into fact.

Thus the scriptures tell you that you must persist in rising to (assuming) the consciousness of your wish already being fulfilled. The promise is definite that if you are shameless in your impudence in assuming that you already have that which your senses deny, it shall be given unto you — your desire shall be attained.

Here, to pray means to give thanks for already having what you desire. Only persistency in the assumption of the wish fulfilled can cause those subtle changes in your mind which result in the desired change in your life.

In the midst of all the doubts and changing opinions of others, let there be a conviction, a firmness of belief, and you shall see the dry land; your belief will appear. The reward is to him that endureth unto the end. A conviction is not a conviction if it can be shaken. Your desire will be as clouds without rain unless you believe.

When you know what you want and when you want it, you can always find a way to make it happen.

Doers, on the other hand, act their way into feeling. After determining what needs to be done based on their goals, doers take action. They just do it. If they don't feel like taking action, they consider that emotion a distraction and take action in spite of it. They refuse to let their craving for short-term comfort divert them from their long-term goal and the blessings that go along with it.

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.

Truth never dies.

and keep tapping you on the shoulder.

The thing is, though, every time I think I'm just gonna give up—that I can't possibly do it, that I'm just going to curl up alone somewhere and waste away, well, I always keep trying. I mean, for some reason I manage to make it through another day and then another day after that.

Better to start too slowly and build up," said a piece of text in italics, "than start too quickly and give up.

Some people always look respectable, I thought, and some people never do. Give Doll a bath, a haircut, a shave, a manicure, dress him in a thousand-pound suit, and he'd still look unwashed and somehow unsavoury. You couldn't clean off his past.

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.

To begin this Practice is easy. To persevere is difficult.

He had advanced so rapidly that for eight days in a row he had never once taken off his boots.

He would be followed by Vice-Admiral Honoré Ganteaume with six frigates and twenty-one ships

So an invasion fleet it was, and the work continued

Constant repetition of tongue-twisters was like lifting weights for me, but patience and persistence have paid off.

There was something calming in the reticence of all those books, their willingness to wait years, decades even, for the right reader to come along and pull them from their appointed slots. Take your time, the books whispered to me in their dusty voices. We're not going anywhere.

When you are having difficulties, a single attack of "Yeahbut maybe I should compromise a little for the sake of practicality" can bring an inglorious end to the fulfillment of your dream.

So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me... everyday.

Nothing that's worthwhile is ever easy. Remember that.

I'm often called obsessive. I don't think I am ... but I agree that when I decide to go in one direction I really go in that direction.

That was the problem with reading: you always had to pick up again at the very thing that had made you stop reading the day before.