Quotes About Persistence

remain steadfast in pursuing your mission, always willing to shed distractions.

Nothing great is created in a flash.

Don't give in to second thoughts, because no one who wavers will make progress

If you worked hard, believed in what you did, and stayed the course, then success and recognition would follow.

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible. —T. E. Lawrence

Still, let us not disarm, even in unsatisfactory times. Social injustice still needs to be denounced and fought. The world will not get better on its own.

They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than to insufficient application. At the core of every true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in any achievement, and the confidence that persistence and patience something worthwhile will be realized. Thus talent is a species of vigor. (Eric Hoffer 1902-1983)

Some people are born to spend their lives catching up; and they are as a rule the passionate ones.

You can't do it right too often:author bob wyrick. A fanatic is a person who redoubles his effort after he's lost sight of his aim.

Can't kill something that doesn't have a heart.

we can do anything when we decide to win no matter what!

it takes as long as three generations of hard work, three generations of sacrifice to correct the wrong!

Like she said, love wasn't a switch that could be turned off. It was more like a battery, had to run until there was no more energy left.

Sweat rained from my forehead; my own salt blinded me until I wiped it all away.

Not with all his brain development can man tell how a bird or an animal can be crated, taken miles away in darkness, and when released, strike back towards its home. Man only knows that animals can do what he can neither do himself nor explain.

You must be able to create in the middle of things, or else you will not create. You must learn to take whatever practical and psychological actions are necessary to combat the anticreating forces that surround you and live within you.

People who are accomplished at anything have learned that "perfect" is the enemy of the good.

For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

Great loves have legs and wings. They are substantial. They do not dissapate so easily... Great loves have staying power. Or so I told myself.

want to beg you, as much as I can, to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.

Well, if you ever decide to try, just concentrate. And don't let anyone tell you you can't do it. -Mrs Peachtree

It doesn't matter,' Monsieur Ibrahim said. 'Your love for her belongs to you. It is yours. Even if she refuses it, she cannot change it. She isn't benefiting from it, that's all. What you give, Momo, is yours forever. What you keep is lost for all time!