Quotes About Persistence

The energy and daring is to resist the noes, until the final yes has been achieved.

The current situation reminds me too much of the fable of the farmer whose chickens are dying. The local priest gives one remedy af- ter another—prayers, potions, oaths—until all of the chickens are dead. "Too bad," says the priest, "I had so many other good ideas.

The research on the importance of practice was made famous by Malcolm Gladwell (2008) when he argued that ten thousand hours of practice are necessary to become an expert in a field.

You must throw your whole being against the lifetrap—your thoughts, feelings, and behavior.

In the end, it wasn't death that surprised her but the stubbornness of life.

Celebrate effort, not victory.

I haven't got a lot of patience.

Don't you quit. You keep walking. You keep trying. There is help and happiness ahead. Some blessings come soon, some come late, and some don't come until heaven; but for those who embrace the gospel of Jesus Christ, they come. It will be all right in the end. Trust God and believe in good things to come.

If for a while the harder you try, the harder it gets, take heart. So it has been with the best people who ever lived. (The Inconvenient Messiah, BYU Speeches, Feb 15, 1982)

Pray earnestly and fast with purpose and devotion. Some difficulties, like devils, do not come out save by fasting and by prayer. Ask in righteousness and you shall receive. Knock with conviction and it shall be opened unto you.

Heaven, or the kingdom of God, is easy if e work at it hard, but hard if we work at it easy.

Don't you quit. You keep walking, you keep trying, there is help and happiness ahead.

If for a while the harder you try, the harder it gets, take heart. So it has been with the best people who ever lived.

Stay in the race. Keep running. Keep walking. Keep praying. The Lord will renew your strength.

In short, the command prompt is not going away. It's stronger than ever.

Success," Honda said, "can be achieved only through repeated failure and introspection. In fact, success represents one percent of your work, which results only from the ninety-nine percent that is called failure.

As my eldest could tell you, tussling with the Dwarf Police Squad is no picnic.

I'm not going to wait for Father to find Olivina. I'm going to do it myself.

What about Wee Squirl? --Rose MacDonell

Every no takes you one step closer to a yes!

Success = a series of small, consistent, loving steps.

Success = persistence when it gets hard.

you have to be willing to fall down, get up, look stupid, cry, laugh, make a mess, clean it up and not stop until you get there. No matter what.

Deciding means jumping in all the way, doing whatever it takes, and going after your dreams with the tenacity of a dateless cheerleader a week before prom night.