Quotes About Persistence

Ha! Yes. When anyone tells you habits die hard, Locke, they're lying—it seems they never die at all.

A troupe learns to play like we all learn to screw, stumbling and jostling until everything's finally in the right place.

Damn it, when will you learn that refusing to admit you've lost isn't the same as winning?" "Sort of depends on how long one keeps refusing, doesn't it?

Endure for another day, Mister Tannen, and you'll have all the foul black misuse of water you can drink.

Fling arrows at all the strange things you see out here, and all you do is run out of arrows.

Do not say (your) body is weak and so lack courage. Do not say (you) are dull-witted and cease (training). Do not say complications cause (you) to give up halfway. Do not let circumstances cause you to break off. In all things under heaven, a really determined person will find a solution.

In his classic book Mere Christianity, C. S. Lewis wrote the following line about making changes, asking God for help, failing, asking for forgiveness when needed, and trying again: "Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again." Lewis is saying that real change comes from continuing to try. That is encouraging because, in his wisdom, Lewis is acknowledging the difficulty of making lasting changes.

Q: Why can't Irishmen ever be lawyers? A: They can never make it past the bar.

Q: Why did the turkey cross the road? A: To prove he wasn't a chicken.

You had to hand it to the devil: long odds never dampened his enthusiasm one bit. David

At any stage of the game — regardless of your educational level, upbringing or age — you can decide to leapfrog the pettiness of people to achieve your goals. When you make a commitment and have the courage to stick with it through thick and thin, you'll double your income — and more.

I think L.A.'s terrific. You fly an hour and a half and you're in the mountains in three feet of powder. I also think it's a much better city if you're working as an actor. If you're not working and you don't see your dreams coming true, there can be a lot of heartache.

Believe in himself, to chart his course and stick to it

That was what it meant to be loved--there were people who would never give up looking and longing for you, no matter how far you wandered lost.

We go straight". I say again. "If we start making turns, we might not know what direction is what. If we keep going straight, at least we know how to get back to where we came from if we get into trouble. I know it's tiring, but walking uphill is a good thing-every step we take is a step closer to getting out." "I see shoulders droop, I hear heavy sighs. They don't want to agree with me; they want to go the easier way".

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. The phrase is attributed to Herodotus and refers to the courier service of the ancient Persian Empire.

away—a sixty-mile round-trip with Hoel was about as much fun as a barbed-wire enema.

I knew it; I bloody knew it," he muttered. "It followed us. Whatever was in that house, it followed every one of us.

Life is simply experience; for reasons not readily discerned, we attempt to go on.

In many fields a year of focused work plus caring a lot would be enough.

Nothing got without pains but an ill name and long nails.

They gathered in such large numbers that there was no room left, not even outside the door, and he preached the word to them. Some men came, bringing to him a paralyzed man, carried by four of them. Since they could not get him to Jesus because of the crowd, they made an opening in the roof above Jesus by digging through it and then lowered the mat the man was lying on. (Mark 2:2–4 NIV)

Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.