Quotes About Persistence

He was a boy, she was a girl, can I make it any more obvious. He was a punk, she did ballet, what more can I say. He wanted her, she wouldn't tell, but secretly she wanted him as well

Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.

With regard to performance, commitment, effort, dedication, there is no middle ground. Or you do something very well or not at all.

If we sit down with the idea, "Oh dear, another meditation session, I suppose I must stick it out," we will never be able to do it. There must be a feeling of strength and uplift in the mind. Meditation will enhance both, but we have to bring them with us in the first place.

Hope does not mean turning a blind eye to reality or living in self-neglect. It is about accepting the situation as it is and deciding to find a better way to deal with it. It's about showing up, even when you are afraid you may fail. It's about working through the tough stuff, the painful stuff, and still carrying on because you know you are stronger than you think you are. But of course, hope alone is never enough. You have to apply focus and persistence.

Every disappointment gives you opportunity to make another appointment.

A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution. Every man who gets anywhere does so because he has first firmly resolved to progress in the world and then has enough stick-to-it-tiveness to transform his resolution into reality. Without resolution, no man can win any worthwhile place among his fellow men.

Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

You know that if I ever do settle down with some woman, Lillie is going to come after you next," Hawk said. "She's relentless. She'll have you married within weeks after I tie the knot. Mark my words." He took another drink and swallowed. "Be afraid. Be very afraid.

Just because you climbed onto a rank horse once, doesn't mean you quit riding.

People get sick, take vacations, and have emergencies. We're not aiming for perfection here, only consistency. Keeping the habit alive means keeping it rooted in your routine no matter how tiny it is.

However, if there was a time that Sukumar didn't want to do a lot of push-ups, he didn't force himself. He did two and felt good about keeping the habit alive. Part of this skill is knowing when to back off and do only the baseline.

Don't pressure yourself to do more than the tiniest version of your habit. If you're sick, tired, or just not in the mood, scale back to tiny.

In contrast, you can't achieve an aspiration or outcome at any given moment.

Despite all this, go big or go home is the way many people approach change. As a result, most people don't know how to think tiny.

By keeping the bar low, you keep the habit alive.

Doing two push-ups against a wall is easy to accomplish so you're much more

MOTIVATION IS NOT THE WINNING TICKET FOR LONG-TERM CHANGE

One must attempt with feeling of total devotion to get success in any venture.

Dust might cover the gem to render it lustreless but sooner or later it must fetch its intrinsic value. Reality can't be hoodwinked by any trick for long.]