Quotes About Persistence

Live in your dream and then make it your reality.

Persistence is a necessary ingredient for success.

You overcome a problem, not by solving it, but by becoming bigger than the problem.

The one thing that I think is critical in the entrepreneurial spirit is that it's all attitude. If you think you can, then you're half way there. If you say, 'I can't,' then you're defeated.

The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.

You can run from the past, but it always catches up with you.

There is no one I find as tiresome as myself. Talk about ubiquitous. It's so difficult to find someplace quiet apart from myself, hard to keep me out of the room for even a moment. I just keep following myself around wherever I go, monotonously chirping.

Successful people are dreamers who have found a dream too exciting, too important, to remain in the realm of fantasy. Day by day, hour by hour, they toil in the service of their dream until they can see it with their eyes and touch it with their hands.

If you imagine less, less will be what you undoubtedly deserve. Do what you love, and don't stop until you get what you love. Work as hard as you can, imagine immensities, don't compromise, and don't waste time. Start now. Not 20 years from now, not two weeks from now. Now.

The only way you make it through life is to fight. You don't get there the easy way. If you feel sorry for yourself, and you let yourself go down, you will drown.

All of us have a story like that one - some of us more than one. It's part of life and learning. Why, if babies stopped trying to walk the first time they fell down, the whole world would be full of people who crawled.

I begged my mom to let me start skating.

I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true.

Not that anyone short of God Almighty could have gotten Marcus Senior to rest and take it easy. It was like trying to make a shark sit up and beg for treats.

most things worth doing are not easy. But that does not make them not worth doing.

I keep on making what I can't do yet in order to learn to be able to do it.

Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures,

keep on making what I can't do yet in order to learn to be able to do it.

The writing life is mostly about stamina. To get to the finishing line requires the writing to become more interesting than everyday life...

It's the curiosity that drives me. It's making a difference in the world that prevents me from ever giving up.

The only way to fail is to not try.

Everything will be alright in the end so if it is not alright it is not the end.

The only real failure is the failure to try, and the measure of success is how we cope with disappointment.

Can we be blamed for feeling we're too old to change? Too scared of disappointment to start it all again? We get up every morning, we do our best. Nothing else matters.