Quotes About Persistence

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

You will never get what you don't ask for. You can't find what you aren't looking for. "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

The highest compliment that you can pay me is that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take

One reason many people never see God working in their lives is because they never hang in long enough for God to show his power.

I can build a hyperphase jump gate, I'm sure I could have figured sex out. Insert Tab M into Slot F. Repeat until done.

And since you know what a tree-climbing weenie I am, I think it's pretty clear that I'm willing to do anything to get her to talk to me. Man, I'll dive after her into a chicken coop full of poop if that's what it takes. I'll ride my bike all the stinkin' way to school for the rest of eternity if it means being with her

I'll ride my bike all the stinkin' way to school for the rest of eternity if it means being with her. -Bryce

Love is what carries you, for it is always there, even in the dark, or most in the dark, but shining out at times like gold stitches in a piece of embroidery.

In a rush, Joan and Timothy and the log cabin and the prayers and even those tough little pieces of beachglass came into my mind, reminding me that the point is to endure, not to break. (71)

At twenty-one he had arrived in America a penniless bodybuilder, born in an obscure Austrian village, armed only with the immigrant's time-honored weapons of hope, ambition, and an almost supernatural belief in the great American dream. Now, through the traditional virtues of hard work, talent, charm, intelligence, positive mental attitude, and persistence, Arnold Schwarzenegger had become a household name.

Failure is doing nothing about a problem that bothers us. If our efforts don't go as we hoped, we still learn and can take a new approach next time.

And she never has.

The harder something is to acquire, the more satisfying it is when you finally find it.

If this could be repeated every day for a year, I would never budge from where I stood.

I've learned that if you wait long enough, you might get a second chance at something you gave up on.

At the end of the world will be bacteria, cockroaches, and Peeps.

Please do not make me reach for my inner Annie Oakley because she often hangs out with my inner Calamity Jane.

She wrote for years, one book after another, just trying to get somewhere. At one point, despite all the roadblocks her publisher put in her way, she hit the New York Times list and got a multimillion dollar contract with another publisher.

Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way. —E. L. DOCTOROW

Their conscious selves expected diminishing returns. The average estimate of new endings was about five, which was fewer than they had produced in the initial four minutes. They were then given an additional four minutes to work. The actual number of new endings they generated was 20 percent higher than they estimated. They didn't give persistence enough credit.

There has to be a measure of faith. That's what this business is all about: trusting in something that may never show up, that you have no concrete proof of.

Don't just look at someone's success, but look at all the effort and hard work behind it.

Ne regardez pas seulement le succès de quelqu'un, mais regardez tous les efforts et le travail acharné derrière.