Quotes About Persistence

People who care, act, and refuse to give up may not change THE world, but they can change many individual worlds.

The Heath brothers stressed that, counterintuitively, big problems 'are most often solved by a sequence of small solutions, sometimes over weeks, sometimes over decades.' 'Shrink the change' became a kind of motto for me and my team, along with President Obama's version of the point: 'Better is good' (p. 517).

I want things so bad that I force them, push them until they tear.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." -Bruce Lee

Don't leave a stone unturned. It's always something, to know you have done the most you could." -Charles Dickens

Sometimes you gotta fail in order to succeed

No way in, go in, measure.

Perhaps it's done already, perhaps they have said me already, perhaps they have carried me to the threshold of my story, before the door that opens on my story, that would surprise me, if it opens, it will be I, it will be the silence, where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.

Come on, Gogo, return the ball, can't you, once in a way? I find this really most extraordinarily interesting.

In me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.

All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.

I can't go on, I'll go on.

Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. (Worstward Ho!)

Fail, fail again, fail better.

Genius is no respecter of time, trouble, money or persons, the four things around which human affairs turn most persistently.

Nothing will ever die so long as it knows what to do under the circumstances, in other words so long as it knows its business.

There are two great rules in life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that every one can in the end get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less of an exception to the general rule.

If people who are in a difficulty will only do the first little reasonable thing which they can clearly recognize as reasonable, they will always find the next step more easy both to see and take.

We can never get rid of mouse-ideas completely, they keep turning up again and again, and nibble, nibble--no matter how often we drive them off. The best way to keep them down is to have a few good strong cat-ideas which will embrace them and ensure their not reappearing till they do so in another shape.

All our lives long, every day and every hour, we are engaged in the process of accommodating our changed and unchanged selves to changed and unchanged surroundings: living, in fact, is nothing else than this process of accommodation; when we fail in it a little we are stupid, when flagrantly we are mad, when we give up the attempt altogether we die, when we suspend it temporarily we sleep.

Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.