Quotes About Persistence

The simple things done consistently will produce the greatest results in your life.

Then [after you find God's plans] you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart (Jeremiah 29:12-13).

If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it.

Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enought to know they were impossible.

Hey, any day you get through the afternoon here's a good day.

I don't think anyone ever gets over anything in life; they merely get used to it.

We go from liking something . . . to wanting it . . . to needing it. At the same time our drive to go after it is heightened considerably. "In nature, rewards take time and effort.

When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this—you haven't." —Thomas Edison

Time, like gravity, was a barrier thrown up by an unyielding universe. Mankind had always railed against both of these barriers, forever fantasizing about their eventual defeat.

We all come from an uninterrupted line of humanity's winners. Like gunfighters in the Old West, just being alive means that you're undefeated.

Douglas E. Richards

Churchill had said, "When you're going through hell, keep going,

You know the old adage: nine women can't make a baby in a month.

Extraordinary breakthroughs require extraordinary perseverance.

Keep in mind that getting control of any addictive-type problem nearly always requires multiple efforts. If at first you don't fully succeed, keep trying and keep learning; remember, most cigarette smokers finally quit on the eighth serious attempt.

Most of us proceed with good intentions. We try our best. Yet so often we fail ourselves and others. What else can we do but try again? It's the only option open to us. Trying is the way we get through the day.

Americans never quit.

Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds. —Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success

We need to lose less often in the fight against the bad guys. Or, at least, lose more gracefully and recover quickly.

Yeah, I spent about 20 years in a dorm room. It took me a while to graduate.

Your deep interests should always have a dog-eared place on your nightstand.

Plod diligently. Plodding generally goes in the same direction, while pottering doesn't.

Learn what good work is, imitate it studiously, and do that over time.

When you write a page and delete the whole thing, there is a sense in which it is not deleted. The better writer who remained behind is still there.