Quotes About Persistence

Nothing is impossible if it is the right thing to do. Failure is just another reason to keep trying...

Success took me to her bosom like a maternal boa constrictor.

Was man verloren hat, findet sich manchmal wieder, aber was man aufgegeben hat, kommt nie zurück.

Thousands of people have talent. I might as well congratulate you for having eyes in your head. The one and only thing that counts is: Do you have staying power?

There are dark times just around the corner. There are dark clouds travelling through the sky. And it's no good whining about a silver lining. For we know from experience they won't roll by.

The only thing that will guarantee your failure is quitting. Those who win in this life are not those who never fail. Winners are those who never quit.

The process of waiting and enduring qualifies you for the next step—the step into your destiny.

Dreams are important, but if they are not followed up by a commitment to the process, then they will simply remain daydreams, never seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. If you are interested in fulfilling your destiny, then you must learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of success.

Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth…Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Writing is rewriting... If you fall in love with the vision you want of your work and not your words, the rewriting will become easier.

But now remember, my dear. Don't try so hard. You'll see. In life you move toward the things you like and away from what you don't," Gretchen said. "It's that easy?" I asked her. Her arm was so skinny and fragile, but I could feel her weight like determination. "Yes, it's that easy," she said. Then she laughed. "The hard part is to just keep moving.

I'm always going to do that - record and make music.

Hard work never killed anybody!" Sometimes when Aunt Hester droned on about it I used to think to myself, Maybe not, but hearing about it is killing me! Of course I daren't say it, and of course nobody ever did die of boredom or great-aunt Hester would have been knee-deep in corpses.

You want to be happy? You want to be well? Then put your boots on.

It's true that some mistakes can never be amended no matter what you do, but that doesn't mean it's all right to give up before you even try.

Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them – a desire, a dream, a vision." – Muhammad Ali

If you want to lift a hundred pounds, you don't expect to succeed the first time. You start with a lighter weight and work up little by little. You actually fail to lift a hundred pounds, every day, until the day you succeed. But it is in the days when you are exerting yourself that the growth is occurring.

Cultural differences are so persistent because when our native culture is learned and wired into our brains, it becomes "second nature," seemingly as "natural" as many of the instincts we were born with. The tastes our culture creates - in foods, in type of family, in love, in music - often seem "natural", even though they may be acquired tastes.

One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Before the Battle of Britain, the Luftwaffe had things their own way. They had won in Spain, in Poland, in Belgium, in France. Over Britain, for the first time, they came up against something they couldn't beat. It was not easy for them to understand that.

Many of us would probably be better fishermen if we did not spend so much time watching and waiting for the world to become perfect

I knew that, when needed, mountains would move for me.

A hungry dog hunts best. A hungrier dog hunts even better.