Quotes About Persistence

Remember There's No Such Thing As An Unrealistic Goal – Just Unrealistic Time Frames

Don't get sidetracked. If you do get sidetracked, get back on track as soon as possible. Ultimately sidetracking kills you.

MY STYLE of deal-making is quite simple and straightforward. I aim very high, and then I just keep pushing and pushing and pushing to get what I'm after.

I like to think of the word FOCUS as Follow One Course Until Successful.

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul. — Douglas MacArthur

I just have a feeling," Dortmunder said. "This is turning into one of those dreams where you keep running down the same corridor and you never get anywhere.

In other words, if you see a behavior that persists over time, there is likely a mechanism creating that consistent behavior.

If you have a sense of the rates of change of stocks, you don't expect things to happen faster than they can happen. You don't give up too soon.

You're not born with a walk like that. You have to earn it.

It's difficult to stop trying with the one you love. You always hope that this next time might work, might change everything for the better.

Donna VanLiere's "A Christmas Blessing" "Don't ever take your EYES off the FINISH line. If you take your eyes off the GOAL, you'll never make it to the END.

Some things may never change but other things can be so completely different that they make the things that don't change bearable.

But you must give people time. The world can't be remade in a day." "The world won't ever be remade, if no one tries to remake it. Change must begin somewhere.

My father instilled in me the attitude of prevailing. If there's a challenge, go for it. If there's a wall to break down, break it down.

It's a lot of work to keep reinventing yourself and coming up with new stuff, but that's what it takes to be in show business.

Follow your passion, be prepared to work hard and sacrifice, and, above all, don't let anyone limit your dreams.

Bottom line: Refuse to accept negative ideas about what you can't accomplish or what's impossible. Don't even talk to negative people while your dreams are still in the fragile incubation stage!

Every poem I write falls short in some important way. But I go on trying to write the one that won't.

as if nothing had happened— as if everything mattered—What else could I do?

What is in the marrow is hard to take out of the bone.--Irish Proverb

when]asked, "What should I do if I want to become a writer?" "Well," Doris said, with that steely twinkle in her dark eyes, "My best advice for you, honey, is to stop if you possibly can! And if you just can't, then get ready to work like hell. Hang onto your day job. And remember, you may not make a living, but you'll make a wonderful life.

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.

Fortitude is a value missing in our society today. There is a reality about sticking things out for a better day to dawn that is not cliché, but honest-to-God good advice that we should all weigh and consider

you want something, you go and get it. If you don't want that thing, you let it go and stop brooding.