Quotes About Persistence

The measure of a man is not in how he gets knocked to the mat, it is in how he gets up.

Try to prise a limpet away from its rock and it will cling all the harder.

I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure.

I only scream and scratch when something's only 'really good' or 'good', I want to be great, or let's go home.

With the inexorable slowness of a tortoise orgasm

Unwilling to play the hand that is dealt [to] him, the borderline keeps folding every time, losing his ante, waiting to be dealt four aces. If he cannot be assured of winning, he won't play out the hand. Improvement comes when he learns to accept the hand for what it is, and recognize that, skillfully played, he can still win.

only three ingredients are needed to be a successful fundraiser: Hard work, hard work, and hard work.

The successful fundraiser is the one who is disappointed by almost all that he does. Nothing is good enough. The gift isn't large enough, the presentation wasn't dramatic enough. But he will go on, persevere, work even harder to meet his high expectations.

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Theories pass. The frog remains.

Holiness requires continual effort on our part and continual nourishing and strengthening by the Spirit.

verse of Scripture I often use in the face of failure with my own sins is Proverbs 24:16: "For though a righteous man falls seven times, he rises again, but the wicked are brought down by calamity." The person who is disciplining himself toward holiness falls many times, but he doesn't quit. After each failure he gets up and continues the struggle.

You may have sought and tried to obtain instant godliness. There is no such thing....We want somebody to give us three easy steps to godliness, and we'll take them next Friday and be godly. The trouble is, godliness doesn't come that way. ~Jay Adams~

For the LORD your God had made his spirit stubborn and his heart obstinate in order to give him into your hands, as he has now done" (Deuteronomy 2:30).

When I say we should never ask why, I am not talking about the reactive and spontaneous cry of anguish when calamity first befalls us or one we love. Rather, I am speaking of the persistent and demanding why that has an accusatory tone toward God in it.

contrast, there are sixteen whys in the book of Job, according to author Don Baker.6 Sixteen times Job asked God why. He is persistent and petulant. He is accusatory toward God. And, as has been observed by many, God never answered Job's why. Instead He answered who.

There is a vast difference between failing and becoming a failure. We become a failure when we give up—when we stop trying. But as long as we are working on those sinful habits, regardless of how often we fail, we have not become a failure, and we can expect to see progress.

Constancy is nothing but a languishing and wavering dance

Watching a spring training game is as exciting as watching a tree form its annual ring.

If you really want something you just hang with it. We think our future's ahead and not behind.

I have spent over 60 years bent over a guitar and to know that I wrote 70 compositions that masters have recorded, that makes me feel so good and full, and proud and thankful to the good Lord.

Today I will do what other's won't, so tomorrow I will do what others can't.

Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can do what others can't

Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't.