Quotes About Persistence

Feel the Fear. Have the Doubts. Go for It Anyway.

The real work in raising the bar is to stop doing the same old thing you've always done, to try out new strategies, to ignore false alarms, to resist the urge to quit, and to refuse to fall back into familiar terrain. The ability to tolerate discomfort—doing what might not feel good, but doing it anyway—is the only way you'll ever complete the path to financial success. It helps to keep in mind that the discomfort is temporary, but the payoff is extraordinary

Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible, and suddenly you're doing the impossible.

When your intentions are deep and compelling, and your commitment strong and inflexible, you're more likely to keep going when the going gets rough.

Sacrifice your fear on the altar of your dreams.

The impetus of existing plans is always stronger than the impulse to change.

The utility of perseverance in absurdity is more than I could ever discern. Edmund Burke

Every repetition of the choice only hardened the issue.

folly when it is a perverse persistence in a policy demonstrably unworkable or counter-productive. It

The persistence of the normal is strong.

That he survived, and indeed returned to government, was one of man's occasional triumphs over medicine.

The Battle of the Marne was one of the decisive battles of the world not because it determined that Germany would ultimately lose or the Allies ultimately win the war but because it determined that the war would go on.

I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.

But they who drink the Muse's breath Pay for the draught with many tears-- Their destiny until their death To seek her shadow down the years.

Fight on and fly on to the last drop of blood and the last drop of fuel, to the last beat of the heart.

Success flourishes only in perseverance — ceaseless, restless perseverance.

Ambition -- it is the last infirmity of noble minds.

For an actor, you're rejected eight or ten times a day. All you've got to sell is yourself. You're not selling products, they're not turning down a car, they're turning you down. Most people can't handle that. Most people are essentially not set up that way.

Your fragments of knowledge will lead to competence. Your competence will lead to fluency. Your fluency will intensify to higher and higher levels of fluency. The best attitude, however, is that your attempt to master the foreign language, should remain perpetually unfinished business. You'll succeed if you make sure you never go to bed knowing no more of your target language than you did when you woke up!

No the world's too crazy, it might never come true But before I give up I'm gonna fight for you My heart beats fast and my face is all flushed Darn I'd marry you tomorrow, I don't wanna seemed rushed.

The world pretty much sucks most of the time. But the point of life isn't to live in a world that doesn't suck. The point is to try to make it suck a little bit less.

And if it's locked, I'll knock it the hell down." He thinks when he busts out "hell" I take him more seriously. Yeah. Insert eye roll here.

Billy always survived. Like a cockroach. The world's smartest, meanest, craziest cockroach.

It's just a base hit, people. It means nothing unless we put a string of them together.