Quotes About Persistence

The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn't matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark.

The pursuit of your power takes all that you have, if you will be great—it leaves neither time, nor energy, for anything else. We are born with the seeds of power in us and driven to be what we are by a hunger that knows no slaking.

We walk towards nowhere, one foot in front of the other.

Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work — that goes on, it adds up.

What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.

She kept swimming out into life because she hadn't yet found a rock to stand on.

What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive. You keep your eyes open, you see this damned-to-hell world you got born into, and you ask yourself, 'What life can I live that will let me breathe in & out and love somebody or something and not run off screaming into the woods?

The best way to make something last is to believe that it won't.

I chase him around with a bottle of water and an orange all day long.

I pictured my clothesline full of troubles and saw myself pinning on another one.

After that I behaved myself very good. I sat up real straight. And I did all my work. Work is when you use your brain and a pencil.

The window-cleaners had arrived shortly after breakfast and it was a kind of game trying to evade them. If I go down to the uttermost ends of the earth, Jane thought, seizing a flattened pillow and beating it into roundness, there they will find me.

Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.

You don't have to get it right the first time.

The two most important rules for any dream are: Start small. Start now. For Scanners, add two more:   Start everything and   Don't bother to finish any of it. (Just save it in your Daybook!)

Resistance is clear evidence of high self-esteem. It shows that on the deepest level, you intend to survive. And trust me, successful people know all about resistance, they've just developed ways to get around it (like hiring trainers and managers and secretaries and having deadlines to keep them moving).

Frustration is supposed to create action, not make you give up.

I think there's a special saint who protects unfinished projects. Unfinished projects are just as valuable to us as the projects we finish.

You'll never feel like exercising less than now when you need it most - but do it anyway.

Mitten on a Bottle

Regret can't hover for long in the company of determination.

Find out what you love. Do it because you love it. Stick with it. Start now.

You can wonder forever how many teeth a horse has - or you can find a horse, open its mouth, and count its teeth.

A scholar is someone who sticks to things. A poet is someone who uses whatever sticks to him.