Quotes About Persistence

I am still on my zigzag way, pursuing the diagonal between reason and heart.

Abraham Lincoln's principle for greatness can be adopted by nearly all. This was his rule: Whatsoever he had to do at all, he put his whole mind into it and held it all there until that was all done.

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are, in Philadelphia, now.

A turtle doesn't have to decide every morning whether to keep on bothering, it just carries on. Maybe that's why man kills everything: envy.

The mouse and his child, who had learned so much and had prevailed against such overwhelming odds, never could be persuaded to teach a success course... The whole secret of the thing, they insisted, was simply and at all costs to move steadily ahead, and that, they said, could not be taught.

There are no failures, only quitters

Obsessed is just a word the lazy use to describe the dedicated.

No man drowns if he perseveres in praying to God, and can swim.

Keep a thing seven years and it's bound to come in handy.

British rain was rarely that simple. For days on end, instead of falling, it simply hung around in the air like a wife waiting for you to notice she was sulking.

Never give up and never face the facts.

To be somebody, you must last.

Never give up. And never, under any circumstances, face the facts.

Whatever you do, never stop dreaming. Think it over.

You've got to stay alive even if it kills you.

The depth of desire has a great deal to do with the outcome of our life. Often, those who accomplish what they set out to do in life are not those who are the most talented or gifted or who have had the best opportunities. Often they are the ones who are most deeply in touch with how badly they want whatever they want; they are the ones who consistently refuse to be deterred by the things that many of us allow to become excuses.

It's the degree of success and the length of time that is amazing.

Do all things come to an end? No, they go on forever.

All night you waited for morning, all morning for afternoon, all afternoon for night; and still the longing sings. Oh, paper bird with folded wings.

All things come to an end. No, they go on forever.

Our way is not soft grass, it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upward, forward, toward the sun.

You only stop learning when you quit.

You can outdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you.

A single guy will do the right thing after exhausting every other option.