Quotes About Persistence

We're simply going to do what we always do. Clean it up. Pull ourselves up by our bootstraps and figure it out. Come on now.

When you start running from trouble? It confers with the devil on how to find you twice as fast.

The Wright brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility.

Always your first question to yourself should be, "What would I be doing now if it were really impossible for me to fall at – whatever it is: traveling, modeling, writing, farming?

Failure indicates that energy has been poured into the wrong channel. It takes energy to fail.

Then why do we fail? Especially, why do we work hard at failure? Because, beside being creatures subject to the Will to Live and the Will to Power, we are driven by another will, the Will to Fail, or Die.

Be careful that you do not turn these first steps into merely a more elaborate way of playing the old game of day-dreaming with yourself. Do something every day towards your intention, however remote your goal may have to be.

These seem such minor matters, but it is the sum of small things successfully done that lifts a life out of bondage to the humdrum.

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Old habits are strong and jealous. They will not be displaced easily if they get any warning that such plans are afoot; they will fight for their existence with subtlety and persuasiveness.

My own experience has been that there is no field where one who is in earnest about learning to do good work can make such enormous strides in so short a time.

Perseverance and audacity generally win.

Like an old gold-panning prospector, you must resign yourself to digging up a lot of sand from which you will later patiently wash out a few minute particles of gold ore.

Writing is hard work. But if you want to become a writer you will become one. Nothing will stop you.

People say, "What is the sense of our small effort?" They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time.

I despised men who accepted their fate. I shaped mine twenty times and had it broken twenty times in my hands.

Pick yourself up,Dust yourself off,Start all over again.

She'd once told me that I was probably the only person on earth who'd be given more than one soapbox in their lifetime because their first one had been worn out.

If things go wrong, you don't have to accept you made a bum decision.

Ducking for apples -- change one letter and it's the story of my life.

Meanwhile, if these hours be dark at least do not let us sit deedless, like fools and fine gentlemen, thinking the common toil not good enough for us and beaten by the muddle; but rather let us work like good fellows trying by some dim candlelight to set our workshop ready against to-morrow's daylight. William Morris.

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success.

EASY" Is there, we wonder, some virtue in being difficult?