Quotes About Persistence

The only thing that separates success from failure is one last attempt. Try one more time and you will get lucky.

If you march your Winter Journeys you will have your reward, so long as all you want is a penguin's egg.

Let us be resolute in prosecuting our ends, and mild in our methods of so doing.

When a door opens not to your knock, consider your reputation.

It's the rough side of the mountain that's the easiest to climb; the smooth side doesn't have anything for you to hang on to.

To get ahead, sometimes you had to retrace your steps.

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage by considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them; every day begin the task anew. —FRANCIS DE SALES

In our daily lives, moving from struggle to grace requires practice and commitment.

Use it or lose it" is a law of nature, but mercifully "not a soul will be lost" is a law of the spirit that supersedes it.

Those who can sit in a chair, undistracted for hours, mastering subjects and creating things will rule the world—while the rest of us frantically and futilely try to keep up with texts, tweets, and other incessant interruptions.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so you learn to love Ã¢â'¬Â¦ by loving. —FRANCIS DE SALES

Your heart is the size of your fist; keep loving, keep fighting.

I wanted to be a writer, so I became one. How? I wrote things down.

You will never make the crab walk straight.

Sir, sir what good are words? They are of no avail with wild beasts of this sort. Don't you know how they have just washed us down--and with no very fragrant soap!

One swallow does not make a spring, nor does one fine day

You never conquer a mountain. You stand on the summit a few moments; then the wind blows your footprints away.

You never conquer a mountain. You stand on the summit a few brief minutes and then the wind blows away your footprints

Yet would we die as some have done:Beating a way for the rising sun.

Remember, your highest goal is learning, and only in action does true, experiential learning occur. This is what you climb for.

Success and failure do not exist in the present, only effort and action exist.

Second, the work is a process, and that process lasts a lifetime. Every time you gain a new plateau, a massif of unrealized potential soars above you. In this sense, you never "arrive," once and for all, on the mountaintop.

First, accept that life is hard, and that transforming our life—or our abilities, which amount to much the same thing—is very hard.

Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all cost of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.