Quotes About Persistence

Floggings will continue until apathy improves! (Apathy-improves?) How is one to be, more, apathetic!!

Figure out for yourself what you want to be really good at, know that you'll never really satisfy yourself that you've made it, and accept that that's okay

It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end. —LEONARDO DA VINCI

you're much more persistent when you're confident in your abilities.

How about the wrong crowd," I said. "You getting in with them?" "Not much luck," Paul said. "I'm trying like hell, but the wrong crowd doesn't seem to want me." "Don't quit," I said. "You want something, you go after it. I was nearly thirty-five before I could get in with wrong crowd.

Some days I am on the road. Some days I am reading, and some days I am copying quotes. Some days I am writing letters, and some days I am writing chapters. There are no days when I am not working on the craft. There are no days when I am not a writer

Stubbornly persist, and you will find that the limits of your stubbornness go well beyond the stubbornness of your limits.

If you feel you are down on your luck, check the level of your effort.

Toss your dashed hopes not into a trash bin but into a drawer where you are likely to rummage some bright morning.

Some say that true love is a mirage; seek it anyway, for all else is surely desert.

Though the barriers of life seem formidable, we find when we challenge them that they have no will.

If I were Opportunity, I wouldn't just knock, you'd have to sign.

You can accept reality, or you can persist in your purpose until reality accepts you.

We gain no easier advantage than by relentlessly pursuing our goal while others pursue an advantage.

Eventually, time takes care of everything. The trouble with procrastination is that people give up on it too soon.

Life never tires of testing the proposition that life must go on.

It's not that perfection cannot be achieved. It's that it's so hard to stop there.

As a means to success, determination has this advantage over talent — that it does not have to be recognized by others.

No matter what you do in life, a part of you still sits at a curbside, still hearing the drumbeat of a distant parade, still waiting for it to turn the corner.

Every day is conquerable by its hours, and every hour by its minutes.

Never mind the odds against you. If you doubled your effort, what would the odds against you do — send for reinforcements?

When it seems that something can't be done, start it, and see if the rest of it can be done.

It helps if you don't see it as traffic but rather as thousands of individuals resolved to press on another day.

Often, what seems an impossible climb is just a staircase without the steps drawn in.