Quotes About Persistence

Ours is a world where some people are destined to triumph even in defeat, especially if they do not betray themselves."

Stubbornness is the bearer of disaster…"

True heroes and ideas never fall in the final sense of the word. They can only encounter temporary setbacks in their difficult journey to progress and success."

To endure what is unendurable is true endurance.

If you have to kill a snake, kill it once and for all

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Beginning is easy - Continuing is hard.

Proverb : Fall seven times and stand up eight Meaning :When life knocks you down, stand back up;

There is no failure unless you quit. Only success not yet won. ~Haghuf, in Power of the Dance

Älkää hymyilkö nähdessänne minut, sillä minun hymyni ei hyydy koskaan.

Sisyfos optimistina: Vierivä kivi ei sammaloidu.

Joskus katselen rystysteni arpia, muistelen lapsuuden opetuksia. 'Jos ovi ei aukene, se aukaistaan.

I'm not a very good sleeper. But you know what? I'm willing to put in a few extra hours every day to get better. That's just the kind of hard worker I am.

Here's a haiku/palindrome I wrote called, "Obsession." Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob

[Y]ou can do it, even if you can't. Just keep can'ting until eventually you can.

I want to write the Boston Marathon of run-on sentences. And since it'll be so long, I'll replace all the commas with the word Gatorade, to help push people through it.

Pulp existed for 12 years before we got famous. Now, you could say that was just lack of imagination, but it's some kind of quality isn't it? Tenacity. You could also say it was sloth.

Well, once you've resigned yourself to the fact that you are the more mature pop performer and you're past the age you ever thought you would do it, you might as well do it as long as you can. As long as I can still lift a microphone, then I'll do it, you know.

There is no such thing as perfection, there are only standards. And after you have set a standard you learn that it was not high enough. You want to surpass it.

It would be like climbing up a winding mountain where you can't really see much ahead, then finally realizing you're at the top.

Recovery is treacherous but the peace and contentment that awaits us is beyond description. Trust your gut. Stay the course."2

I tell her I won't [forget who I am], even though I'm still trying to figure it out.

From the highest mountains in the world, Men seek for higher places to climb, When in their heart, It is where the climb always continues.

When a guy really loves a woman, she doesn't have to plead with him to commit. He'd commit to her if she lived on the moon....You don't need to beg for anyone's attention. Make him work to win your heart instead of simply handing it to him.