Quotes About Persistence

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

I will do today what others wont, so I can do tomorrow what others can't.

Don't major on the fall, major on getting up!

Although unanswered prayer is indeed a theme of the book, it is not the heart of the book, for unanswered prayer describes a problem but offers no solutions.

We long to be found, hoping our searchers have not given up and gone home.

You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.

They weren't misguided, these men who couldn't take a hint, who kept at a woman who was clearly uninterested. They were broken. Few of them would go so far as kidnapping, sure, but every one of them was after someone they could make feel less than, someone they imagined was beneath them, and they believed every woman was beneath them.

When there is nothing to do you do what little there is. What little is left.

One wants the struggle. One shouldn't permit it to be removed.

Don't let doubt enter into your heart. Stop it in its tracks where it starts—in the mind. Replace every doubtful thought with a faith thought and speak the Word! If you live like this, talk like this, and do this on a consistent basis, you are going to be a success.

If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.

We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.

I'm addicted to this exercise — I never skip a day!

But for them—as for anyone—survival isn't enough.

Some people with blogs are never going to get famous, and they've been doing it for, like, over a year. I feel bad for them.

Come along, Rufus," she said, and gave another tug. He sighed and stopped chewing the door, following Celie.

Nothing great ever comes easy.

She was the only person Phoebe knew who actually believed that if you kept kissing a frog you'd eventually end up with a prince.

When I got done, I'm looking at these two floppies that look just the same. And I decided that I might have written onto the good one from the bad, and I did. So I had lost it all. I went back to my hotel room. I slept for a while. I got up about 10:00 a.m. or so. I sat down and, out of my head and my listings, recreated everything, got it working again, and we showed it at the show.

I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise.

copy: "I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

Tolkien tells us that we do not charge into battle because we know we will win. We do so regardless of odds and outcomes, because we have to.

First of all, the practice of an art requires discipline. I shall never be good at anything if I do not do it in a disciplined way; anything I do only if I am in the mood may be a nice or amusing hobby, but I shall never become a master in that art.

Ma, oltre a conoscere teoria e pratica, c'è un terzo fattore necessario per diventare maestro in qualunque arte: non deve esserci niente al mondo di più importante.