Quotes About Persistence

Ambition is a path, not a destination, and it is essentially the same path for everybody. No matter what the goal is, the path leads through Pilgrim's Progress regions of motivation, hard work, persistence, stubbornness, and resilience under disappointment. Unconsidered, merely indulged, ambition becomes a vice; it can turn a man into a machine that knows nothing but how to run. Considered, it can be something else - pathway to the stars, maybe.

But the day that had started crooked insisted on going crooked, like a cross-threaded screw.

After the final no there comes a yes.

The way through the world Is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.

Believe that you can do it, under any circumstances. Because if you believe you can, then you really will. That belief just keeps you searching for the answers, then pretty soon you get it.

If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.

Get a good idea and stay with it. Do it, and work at it until it's done right.

But they say if you dream a thing more than once, it's sure to come true.

No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep on believing, the dreams that you wish will come true.

I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life... it's money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.

I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.

Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done right.

Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four C s. They are curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of all is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.

Having lost sight of our objectives, we redoubled our efforts.

Man has to fight for what he wants, any way he can.

And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years, I can cheefully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait... And as to you, Life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, (No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.)

If you've told a child a thousand times and he still doesn't understand, then it is not the child who is a slow learner.

it is the continual effort of the beginning that creates the hoarded energy of the end;

The greatest please in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Prayer is a refusal to settle for what is.

It is rather the conviction that God will not quit until God has arrived at God's good intention.

If you know you don't have a win, then there's no use for you being in the game.

Perserverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.

Perseverance is not a long race it is many short races one after another.