Quotes About Persistence

One does not play Bach without having done scales. But neither does one play a scale merely for the sake of the scale.

In spite of the problems he was having he was going on with his life. There are thousands who don't or won't or can't and plenty of them aren't in prison either.

Life is like walking you take one step at a time.

Unless a man believes in himself and makes a total commitment to his career and puts everything he has into it - his mind, his body, his heart - what's life worth to him?

Believe! Project a mental picture of your goal in life. Believing is a creative force that brings the visible out of the invisible. You must believe to achieve.

If you ask me, it doesn't matter what life you're living, life never has a solution. No matter how hard the struggles are that you leave behind, new struggles always take their place.

Failure is just part of life; it happens to everyone. Yet, it doesn't have to be crippling if you don't let it.

When you think life is tough, it can get a lot tougher.

There is no stopping place in this life--nor is there ever one for any person, no matter how far along the way one's gone.

A basic truth of management - if not of life - is that nearly everything looks like a failure in the middle.

Even in our own lives, there are times when we want something so much that we cannot let go of the thought of it. Whether that is an object, a person or a state of mind, whatever it is, we long for it, but it remains out of reach. Then, at the very point where we totally give up and let go of it, we get what we have been wishing for.

Wherever I go, my evils accompany me. That is the capital gift of my existence.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.

In America, here is how we operate: We work for what we want, and we get ahead. We never take no for answer, and we deserve the rewards of our perseverance.

Granddad's voice boomed across the yard. "This is the United States of America," he said. "You don't seem to understand that, Penny, so let me explain. In America, here is how we operate: We work for what we want, and we get ahead. We never take no for answer, and we deserve the rewards of our perseverance. Will, Taft, are you listening?

Here is something I love about Gat: he is so enthusiastic, so relentlessly interested in the world, that he has trouble imagining the possibility that other people will be bored by what he's saying. Even when they tell him outright. But also, he doesn't like to let us off easy. He wants to make us think - even when we don't feel like thinking.

Don't take no for an answer.

They cared for no one, they were outside humanity, and death, had it come, would only have continued their pursuit of a retreating horizon.

Ah, it is impossible." "No, it is only very difficult - so very difficult that I shall be sure to accomplish it!

Things difficult - almost to impossibility - can always be accomplished. Write that upon your tablets, for it is a valuable truth.

I begin to think a body may get any reasonable thing in this world if they will only try hard enough for it!

Think of it like this. If you are sad because you can't have something you want - maybe a book or a toy - you can do one of two things: you can do your best to get it, or you can stop wanting it. Either way, if you succeed, you won't be sad any more.

Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.