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Quotes About Persistence

The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics.
~ Paul Halmos
It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.
~ Charles Darwin
First you have to learn to do something, then you can go out and do it.
~ Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
To learn to draw is to draw and draw and draw.
~ Andrew Loomis
To be well-educated is to have the desire as well as the means to make sure that learning never ends.
~ Alfie Kohn
Learn the fundamentals of the game and stick to them. Band-Aid remedies never last.
~ Jack Nicklaus
The major difference between the 'best' and the 'average' is that the 'best' get as much pleasure from practice as performance.
~ Benjamin Zander
No one is born with skill. It is developed through exercise, through repetition, through a blend of learning and reflection that's both painstaking and rewarding. And it takes time.
~ Twyla Tharp
There is no such thing as a Difficult Piece. A piece is either impossible - or it is easy. The process whereby it migrates from one category to the other is known as practicing.
~ Louis Kentner
Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education.
~ John Hersey
Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.
~ Izaak Walton
Even today, I dare not say that I have reached a state of achievement. I'm still learning, for learning is boundless.
~ Bruce Lee
Write as often as possible, not with the idea at once of getting into print, but as if you were learning an instrument.
~ J. B. Priestley
I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
~ Anton Chekhov
I think in business, you have to learn to be patient. Maybe I'm not very patient myself. But I think that I've learned the most is be able to wait for something and get it when it's the right time.
~ Bernard Arnault
Learning to deal with setbacks, and maintaining the persistence and optimism necessary for childhood's long road to mastery are the real foundations of lasting self-esteem.
~ Lilian Katz
The awesome thing about failure is that it is only temporary. Embrace it, learn the lesson and come back blazing.
~ Joel Brown
Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right.
~ Marian Wright Edelman
Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back." - Chinese proverb
~ Alvin Toffler
Don't stop trying, learning, fighting, experimenting, doing, until the miracle happens.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
You only stop learning when you quit.
~ Ruud Gullit
What paper planes and empty seats most have in common is that they are best made by children still learning how to ride things out.
~ Buddy Wakefield
I may be learning guitar, but I'll never be able to sing.
~ David Duchovny
If you fail, never give up because F.A.I.L. means "first Attempt In Learning".
~ Abdul Kalam