Quotes About Persistence

When I'm driving I don't see much of anything except the road, for I have the type of mind that gets on a job and stays there until it's time for another one.

Excellence is always a matter of effort, and no one is capable of more than a certain amount of effort.

What separates man from divine Reality is the slightest of barriers: God is infinitely close to man, but man is infinitely far from God. The barrier is, for man, a mountain; he stands before a mountain which he must remove with his own hands. He digs away the earth, but in vain; the mountain remains. Man, however, goes on digging, in the name of God. And the mountain vanishes. It was never there.

What I still ask for daily - for life as long as I have work to do, and work as long as I have life.

Obstacles don't decide the fate of your dream, you do

If you have a dream, do not make a plan B. Will Smith said that if you have a plan B you're going to end up at plan B. You need to be all in on plan A. All your love, all your faith, all your energy, all your determination.

If you do just a little research, it is going to become evident to you that anyone that ever accomplished anything, did not know how they were going to do it. They only knew they were going to do it.

Resistance to anything is like trying to change the outside pictures after they have been transmitted. It's a futile pursuit.

Spend seven minutes each day imagining and feeling having what you want. Do it until you know your desire belongs to you, as you know your flame belongs to you.

MICHAEL BERNARD BECKWITH You can start with nothing, and out of nothing and out of no way, a way will be made.

It is, right enough," Nan agreed. "He's not the sort of man who can sit there puffing away at his pipe and reading the newspaper. Always has been a goer, my Alf. He'll be a goer until the day he drops dead.

We all want to go there something awful, but to stand there takes some grace.

The search for truth is eternal and artists some of its most ardent seekers.

na dis aperit, cnficit na dis. (Ausonius Ros. Nasc.

The path you wish to take will be opposed and sometimes one of those opposers is yourself.

Shake and shake the catsup bottle. None will come, and then a lot'll.

The gulls who scorn perfection for the sake of travel go nowhere, slowly. Those who put aside travel for the sake of perfection go anywhere, instantly.

A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.

A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.

You will begin to touch heaven, Jonathan, in the moment that you touch perfect speed. And that isn't flying a thousand miles an hour, or a million, or flying at the speed of light. Because any number is a limit, and perfection doesn't have limits. Perfect speed, my son, is being there.

Memories are contrary things; if you quit chasing them and turn your back, they often return on their own.

If you run through all five and go back to the beginning and run through all five again and go back to the beginning and run through all five again really, really fast, what will happen is that you'll begin to feel fed up. There'll be a point where something inside you says, Enough is enough.

Study hard, for the well is deep, and our brains are shallow.

Let no man think to kill sin with few, easy, or gentle strokes. He who hath once smitten a serpent, if he follow not on his blow until it be slain, may repent that ever he began the quarrel. And so he who undertakes to deal with sin, and pursues it not constantly to the death.