Quotes About Persistence

They spent days, nights, weeks and months talking, never accepting the fact that, good or bad, an idea only exists when someone tries to put it into practice

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.—Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho (1983)

And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.

Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.

It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.

Do not wait: the time will never be 'just right'. Start where you stand, and work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.

If you want to catch beasts you don't see every day, You have to go places quite out of the way, You have to go places no others can get to.You have to get cold and you have too get wet, too.

There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.

If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way.

That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed, but our power to do so is increased.

Never say never

God hasn't called us to be successful, just faithful.

If you start out by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work toward getting it.

A famous author is a promoter who never quit.

Never give up on something you really want. It's difficult to wait, but more difficult to regret.

If we give a hundred percent in whatever we do in life, practice one art form and pursue one sport, we eventually tend to evolve truly as 'A Complete Man (or Woman)'.

Hard work guarantees you nothing, but without it you don't stand a chance

Wrong turns make the right turn all the more worthwhile, once discovered.

Man has to fight for what he wants, any way he can.

Don't ever run away from your problems. Chase after them like a crazy person till they're too afraid to come near you again.