Quotes About Persistence

If one has the will and persistance, one CAN do things.

Those who can best cope with setbacks have the greatest chance of fortune. My conclusion was that it's clearly worth looking into the way you deal with bad luck.

If one has the will and persistence, one CAN do things . . . always try every possible way, and if you don't see a way, ask for help . . . COURAGE ALL THE TIME.

If there was one thing that was truly American, it was the belief that it was always possible to start again.

Allene had clearly inherited one thing from her pioneering forefathers, and that was the conviction that if there wasn't a road, there must be a detour that would get you where you wanted to go. And if there wasn't a detour, a road had to be built. "If one has the will and persistence, one CAN do things," she wrote later.

whereas "I" persist with the fire. born movement the appearance is self-less

There has to be a way," she said, determinedly. "Nothing is impossible." Bean stared at her. "It's impossible for us to be good at ballet." "Well, that, sure," said Ivy. "But it's not impossible for us to break our arms.

I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you.

When people quit on time, it will usually feel like they are quitting too early, because it will be long before they experience the choice as a close call.

If you feel like you've got a close call between quitting and persevering, it's likely that quitting is the better choice.

Contrary to popular belief, winners quit a lot. That's how they win.

When you are weighing whether to quit something or stick with it, you can't know for sure whether you can succeed at what you're doing because that's probabilistic. But there is a crucial difference between the two choices. Only one choice—the choice to persevere—lets you eventually find out the answer.

By not quitting, you are missing out on the opportunity to switch to something that will create more progress toward your goals. Anytime you stay mired in a losing endeavor, that is when you are slowing your progress. Anytime you stick to something when there are better opportunities out there, that is when you are slowing your progress.

What is true for grit is true for optimism. Optimism gets you to stick to things that are worthwhile. But optimism also gets you to stick to things that are no longer worthwhile. And life's too short to do that.

They learned the lesson the ants have down pat: Don't wait to be forced to quit to start exploring alternatives.

If we find the Achilles' heel," Teller told me, "thank God we found the Achilles' heel after $2 million instead of after $20 million.

Contrary to popular belief, quitting will get you to where you want to go faster.

Chapter 6 offers up strategies to improve decisions about when to quit, including the importance of tackling the hardest part of a project first, as well as ways to develop benchmarks, criteria, and signals, called kill criteria, that will help ensure you quit sooner when persisting is no longer in your best interest.

The corollary of this is also true. When people quit on time, it will usually feel like they are quitting too early, because it will be long before they experience the choice as a close call.

Quitting means failing, capitulating, losing. Quitting shows a lack of character. Quitters are losers (except, of course, when it involves giving up something obviously bad like smoking, alcohol, drugs, or an abusive relationship).

Our track to nowhere could be refusing to quit our college major even though it's making us unhappy, because we already took so many classes and put so much time into it.

Or we don't leave a career we spent years training for, because that would mean our training was for nothing. Or we keep watching a bad movie because of the time we've already spent watching it.

I'm going to keep developing this product unless I fail to hit clear benchmarks within the next two months that I've set with my quitting coach.

There is a rich universe of science studying the human tendency to persevere too long, particularly in the face of bad news.