Quotes About Persistence

the consequences of some behaviour are experienced as pleasurable or painful, the quicker and more persistent is the ensuing learning likely to be.

But discoveries are what usually egg us on. Not finding anything would be very bad indeed.

In industry, you take a bump now and then, but you bounce back as long as you don't get defeated inside.

Nathan Greene, special counsel to Lazard Frères, who was on the board for a while. Greene was a kind of business father confessor to me. I remember his saying, 'You think you'll make your pile and then be independent. My friend, in Wall Street you don't just win your independence at one stroke. To paraphrase Thomas Jefferson, you have to win your independence over again every day.' I found that he was right about that.

But the big courage is the cold-blooded kind, the kind that never lets go even when you're feeling empty inside, and your blood's thin, and there's no kind of fun or profit to be had, and the trouble's not over in an hour or two but lasts for months and years.

It's a great life if you don't weaken

And so I penned It down, until at last it came to be, For length and breadth, the bigness which you see.

As I walked through the wilderness of this world.

He who runs from God in the morning will scarcely find Him the rest of the day.

One is tempted to say that the most human plants, after all, are the weeds.

Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.

Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.

You must have the bird in your heart before you can find it in the bush.

A man can get discouraged many times, but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice.

You can get discouraged many times, but you are not a failure until you begin to blame somebody else and stop trying.

Inch by inch, life's a cinch. Yard by yard, life's hard.

Some people will dream big dreams while others will wake up and do them.

inch by inch will make it cinch ,yard by yard will make it hard.

Seven Steps to Success 1) Make a commitment to grow daily. 2) Value the process more than events. 3) Don't wait for inspiration. 4) Be willing to sacrifice pleasure for opportunity. 5) Dream big. 6) Plan your priorities. 7) Give up to go up.

The stubbornness of an idealist; and the soul of a street fighter

The whole idea of motivation is a trap. Forget motivation. Just do it. Exercise, lose weight, test your blood sugar, or whatever. Do it without motivation. And then, guess what? After you start doing the thing, that's when the motivation comes and makes it easy for you to keep on doing it.

The only guarantee for failure is to stop trying

Abraham Lincoln) liked to remind citizens that "Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.