Quotes About Persistence

To get to his level in under a hundred fifty years illustrated a phenomenal achievement.

But to have dreamed the dream is to have flown above the mountains so high in all but deed.

Life's a bitch, then you rejuvenate and do it all over again.

Only the second-rate never make mistakes.

I'm hard to get rid of." He smiled. All Tegan's suspicions about the boy came flooding back. "So it seems," she replied icily.

Every journey that is successful has culs-de-sac and speed bumps. I carry a wisdom gene through my life through the good, the bad, and the ugly.

Well, the idea is that failure is an inevitable partner on the road to success and, if you're not willing to confront failure, you can never find out how good you are.

posible que me caiga —concluí—, pero mientras siga respirando y tenga fuerzas para seguir esforzándome, me levantaré.

Because one who seeks the highest must not leave any path untried.

Time is something you have to hold on to.

Watch anyone enter their arena of real mastery and you see it, the growing bigger than themselves. Love that.

That is what we are, what we do: nose a net, push push, a net that never exists. The knots in the mesh as strong as our own believing. Our own fears.

about how crazy hard is the journey of getting to where you have never been.

if and when we do cross the finishing line, sadly there will not be much time for celebration. We will already be in training for the next one!

He would turn out fine, too. Most of them were that way. They were tough and sweet and funny and sad, and people like that would always survive. It wasn't necessarily gold, but perhaps because of that it would stay.

Motivation is like food for the brain. You cannot get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular top up's.

At the end of four years' time, at graduation, we were down to 12. At our reunion that we had several years ago, only 1 out of the 52 actually made it to ordination and priesthood. So there you go, there's your numbers.

Behold, the people rise like a lioness; they rouse themselves like a lion, not resting until they devour their prey and drink the blood of the slain.”

As Hannah kept on praying before the LORD, Eli watched her mouth.

Then he sent for Joab to send him to the king, but Joab refused to come to him. So Absalom sent a second time, but Joab still would not come.

Ahimaaz son of Zadok, however, persisted and said to Joab, “Regardless of whatever may happen, please let me also run behind the Cushite!” “My son,” Joab replied, “why do you want to run, since you will not receive a reward?”

“No matter what, I want to run!” he replied. “Then run!” Joab told him. So Ahimaaz ran by way of the plain and outran the Cushite.

But when they pressed him to the point of embarrassment, he said, “Send them.” And they sent fifty men, who searched for three days but did not find Elijah.

The Israelites persisted in all the sins that Jeroboam had committed and did not turn away from them.