Quotes About Persistence

Will gives us the ability to take an idea hold that idea and zero right in on something

I suppose you are two fathoms deep in mathematics, and if you are, then God help you. For so am I, only with this difference: I stick fast in the mud at the bottom, and there I shall remain.

What I lack in talent, I compensate with my willingness to grind it out.

Just remember, you are not alone, in fact you are in a very common place with millions of others. We need to help each other and keep striving to reach our goals.

when one's avenue of retreat is cut off there is only one way to go - forward.

William James described success as a combination of two things. An inner ideal which is followed persistently with courage and Outer achievement related to that ideal.

If you make time for the nonsense, good or bad, it will continue to seek you out.

Rejection is a common occurrence. Learning that early and often will help you build up the tolerance and resistance to keep going and keep trying.

Confident persons hit roadblocks while pursuing their dreams and objectives, but they look for an alternate route rather than giving up and going home.

Bad habits are like having a sumo wrestler in the back of your canoe rowing the opposite direction.

Confront your fears. Find their root. Educate yourself. Reach out for help. Defeat your fears or they will defeat you. Never give up.

TOBIAS: No one ever said this would be easy, and you don't seem like the type of woman to take the easy way out.

Physically it is impossible for a bee to fly, but because it believes it can then it can.

I have been able to help my friends and people that I believe in pay their bills and stay afloat in L.A. while following their dreams.

The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies.

History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all.

Slowly we have lifeted ourselves by our own bootstraps. Step by halting step, we have beat our way back

Never, ever rest on your laurels. Today's laurels are tomorrow's compost.

Exceptional thinkers ignore their critics and go about their business making history.

I've lived history. I've made history, and I know I'll have my place in history. That's not egoism.

Often the presence of mind and energy of a person remote from the spotlight decide the course of history for centuries to come.

Hard pounding, gentlemen. Let's see who pounds the longest.

It is through history that we learn who we are and how we got that way, why and how we changed, why the good sometimes prevailed and sometimes did not.

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.