Quotes About Persistence

Winners never quit, quitters never win

The past has a will of its own. It wants to be heard.

Vous savez quoi ? Faire les cent pas toute la nuit n'empêchera pas l'avenir d'arriver.

Lisa Gardner

YOU SPEND ENOUGH time chasing a dog to get back a precious black boot, you start to think like a dog. Spend the rest of your time chasing criminals, and you learn to think like a criminal.

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The world is not ready for some people when they show up, but that shouldn't stop anyone.

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.

The gym is always open, except when it's closed.

The Police and the Society of Jesus posses in common the virtue of never forsaking their enemies as friends.

Oil may run out, liquidity may dry up, but as long as ink flows freely, the next chapter of Life will continue to be written.

Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.

Our destiny is not determined by the number of times we stumble but by the number of times we rise up, dust ourselves off, and move forward.

It is right that you should begin again every day. There is no better way to complete the spiritual life than to be ever beginning it over again.

Spiritual joy arises from purity of the heart and perseverance in prayer.

You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.

This I do know beyond any reasonable doubt. Regardless of what you are doing, if you pump long enough, hard enough and enthusiastically enough, sooner or later the effort will bring forth the reward.

Warriors do not win victories by beating their heads against walls, but by overtaking the walls. Warriors jump over walls; they don't demolish them.

Healing can be a long and winding road or a straightforward march to the finish line.

The ambition of the spiritual traveller never wants to stop with what it has been shown save that the voices of reality call to him, "what you seek is ahead of you.

Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.

You have not failed until you quit trying.

There is no better means of attainment to the spiritual life Than by continually beginning again.

Our task is to become our best selves. One of God's greatest gifts to us is the joy of trying again, for no failure ever need be final.