Quotes About Persistence

You often hear advice from successful people that you should follow your passion. That sounds perfectly reasonable the first time you hear it.

If I find a cow turd on my front steps, I'm not satisfied knowing that I'll be mentally prepared to find some future cow turd. I want to shovel that turd onto my garden and hope the cow returns every week so I never have to buy fertilizer again.*

A great strategy for success in life is to become good at something, anything, and let that feeling propel you to new and better victories. Success can be habit-forming. Pick

great strategy for success in life is to become good at something, anything, and let that feeling propel you to new and better victories. Success can be habit-forming. Pick the Delusion That Works When my dog, Snickers, wants to play fetch in the backyard, she follows me around and stares into my eyes with freakish intensity, as if using her Jedi doggy powers on me.

I decided to revive a long-lost interest and try my hand at cartooning. But it was an unlikely dream, given my complete lack of artistic talent and the rarity of success stories in that business. So I decided to try something called affirmations, which I will describe in more detail later in the book. I bought some art supplies, practiced drawing every morning before work, and wrote my affirmation fifteen times a day: "I, Scott Adams, will be a famous cartoonist.

Success isn't magic; it's generally the product of picking a good system and following it until luck finds you.

Overcoming obstacles is normally an unavoidable part of the process. But you also need to know when to quit. Persistence is useful, but there's no point in being an idiot about it.

Things that will someday work out well start out well. Things that will never work start out bad and stay that way.

grabbing failure by the throat and squeezing it until it coughs up a hairball of success.

If success were easy, everyone would do it. It takes effort. That fact works to your advantage because it keeps lazy people out of the game.

an ill-equipped relatable character who faces impossible odds yet doesn't give up.

The Lord never gets tired of forgiving us. It is we who get tired of asking for forgiveness.

First we crawl. Later we crawl on broken glass.

Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit." – M. Scott Peck

it is not their sins per se that characterized evil people, rather it is the subtlety and persistence and consistency of their sins. This is because the central defect of evil is not the sin but the refusal to acknowledge it

Maybe that's what Batman is about. Not winning. But failing, and getting back up. Knowing he'll fail, fail a thousand times, but still won't give up

I always, always got to be the last man standing.

Just try to keep up.

Maybe that's what Batman is about. Not winning. But failing, and getting back up. Knowing he'll fail, fail a thousand times but still won't give up

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Being an author sucks, doesn't it? It's like telling a joke and nobody laughs for two years.

No matter how far from the war we run, it always catches up with us.

Thoughts come back; beliefs persist; facts pass by never to return.

Man muss immer tun, was man nicht lassen kann.