Quotes About Persistence

If there's one thing that I know for sure about success is that it begins with a decision to be successful, a commitment to seeing it through, and you just can't quit.

Winthrop and his shipmates and their children and their children's children just wrote their own books and pretty much kept their noses in them up until the day God created the Red Sox.

A humble, bootstrappy patriot, Knox wooed, then married Lucy Flucker, the highbrow daughter of the Loyalist governor of the province of Massachusetts.

For years Melody had been making the same wish on every birthday candle, eyelash, wishbone, and shooting star that came her way, and now it had finally come true.

There was probably a technical term for this, but it felt as though at a cellular level something had just rolled over instead of trying again.

Some people, if they didn't make it hard for themselves, might fall asleep.

But she's a nut, and nuts win.

Do we always, always to the point of misery, do a thing?

I would never make a lion, I knew that; but I might pick up a small gain here and there in the attempt.

Some men seem to know exactly where their opportunities lie; they break prisons and cross whole Siberias to pursue them. One room holds me.

I am giving up the violin. I guess I will never reach my object through it," to raise my spirit from the earth, to leave the body of this death. I was very stubborn. I wanted to raise myself into another world. My life and deeds were a prison.

But I have had visions of judgment. I see mainly the obstinacy of cripples. We do not love ourselves, but persist in stubbornness. Each man is stubbornly, stubbornly himself. Above all himself, to the end of time.

Why, it was a crying matter, no fooling, to anyone who might know which side was up, that here was I trying to refuse to lead a disappointed life.

Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts, or leave it.

Failure always brings something valuable with it. I don't let it leave until I extract that value.

If you're going to create, create a lot. Creativity is not like playing the slot machines, where failure to win means you go home broke. With creativity, if you don't win, you're usually no worse off than if you hadn't played.

If you give an ant infinite time, it can move a mountain all by itself.

In the long run, any system that depends on your willpower will fail.

over the years I have cultivated a unique relationship with failure. I invite it. I survive it. I appreciate it. And then I mug the shit out of it.

Everything you want out of life is in that huge, bubbling vat of failure. The trick is to get the good stuff out.

I have cultivated a unique relationship with failure. I invite it. I survive it. I appreciate it. And then I mug the shit out of it. Failure always brings something valuable with it. I don't let it leave until I extract that value.

Goal-oriented people exist in a state of continuous presuccess failure at best, and permanent failure at worst if things never work out. Systems people succeed every time they apply their systems, in the sense that they did what they intended to do. The goals people are fighting the feeling of discouragement at each turn. The systems people are feeling good every time they apply their system.

failure is your friend. It is the raw material of success.

Persistence is useful, but there's no point in being an idiot about it.