Quotes About Persistence

Success is actually a short race—a sprint fueled by discipline just long enough for habit to kick in and take over.

The path of mastering something is the combination of not only doing the best you can do at it, but also doing it the best it can be done.

Don't let small thinking cut your life down to size. Think big, aim high, act bold. And see just how big you can blow up your life.

The key is over time. Success is built sequentially. It's one thing at a time.

never say never

kep on trying

There is always a solution. For everything. Always. Sometimes it isn't pretty and takes a little longer, but there is still a solution.

I couldn't change the wind but perhaps I could reduce the effect of the wind on the boat.

Gary Paulsen - If you work on something hard and get some success. You can get some nice rewards.

There. I've poked my leg, rolled down a bank and been hit in the head with the canoe. All simple things. All fixable things.

All of flying is easy. Just takes learning. Like everything else. Like everything else.

Do what you can as you can. Trouble, problems, will come no matter what you do, and you must respond as they come.

Of all the dogs I have had, Fred was the closest to being actually nuclear i his capacity for destruction. None of it was done with evil intent. He was a wonderfully happy pup and adult dog - inventive and with a great sense of humor, more of which later - but he was also amazingly persistent. Once he started a project, he simply would not stop until it was done.

Success in any endeavor does not happen by accident. Rather, it's the result of deliberate decisions, conscious effort, and immense persistence...all directed at specific goals.

with a singlemindedness common only to former Soviet interior-ministry troops and first-year law students

There's something outrageously simple about extending yourself toward a goal the way a plant seeks the sun's rays or a gopher the crunch of easy soil beneath his paws, and then getting exactly what you want , sunshine or some prized tuber.

Nu, nu, do as you must, her patient replied, as if her entire existence was but an endless series of pushbacks and rejections.

I think she's trying. Trying what? She's trying to figure it out. Aren't we all? No, I don't think so.

Switchback turn, turn, and again, hard scrabble steep travel ahead.

On Climbing the Sierra Mountains again after 31 years Range after range of mountains Year after year after year. I am still in love.

Each time you go that road it gets more straight.

Though the nation is lost, the mountains and rivers remain - Tu Fu

It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have begun our real work and that when we no longer know which way to go we have come to our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.1

And, despite the care which she took to look behind her at every moment, she failed to see a shadow which followed her like her own shadow, which stopped when she stopped, which started again when she did and which made no more noise than a well-conducted shadow should. As for Raoul, he saw nothing either; for, when he had Christine in front of him, nothing interested him that happened behind. Chapter