Persistence Quotes

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any oth...

I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to ...

Most of Csongor's time in T'Rain had been spent blundering about in a state of hapless newbie confus...

Constant repetition of tongue-twisters was like lifting weights for me, but patience and persistence...

Edison was by far the most successful and, probably, the last exponent of the purely empirical metho...

Yes, this man had the persistence of an insect.

It's only those who are persistent, and willing to study things deeply, who achieve the Master Work

To make our way, we must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity. We must gear ourselves to work ha...

The best way out is always through.

Writers remember everything...especially the hurts. Strip a writer to the buff, point to the scars, ...

As if the dead really do persist, even in a bottle of wine.

Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete? Proving nature's laws wrong, it ...

... if they are persistent enough, even tiny drops of water, over time, can change the rock forever....

Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic tha...

Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it ...

Let the man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim. Attacking is his only secret. D...

Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such ...

We have begun a fight that it may be will take many a generation to complete...but you know that men...

I think all musicians have at one time or another experienced one physical problem or another. I hav...

Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.

Don’t quit. It’s very easy to quit during the first 10 years. Nobody cares whether you write or not,...

Inspiration comes when you stick your elbows on the table, your bottom on the chair and you start sw...

A friend of mine, the most innocuous dreamer who ever lived, once set a forest on fire to see, as he...

Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently ma...

Fight ever on: this earthly stuff If used God’s way will be enough. Face to the firing line o friend...

They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspi...

If there is no struggle there is no progress.

What matters is that life is good. It has a lovely texture, like some rich cloth or fur, or the peta...

A mans life is interesting primarily when he has failed. I well know. For its a sign that he tried t...

In conservation, the motto should always be 'never say die'.

Love becomes imprudent only when it is impatient to enjoy; but when it is a matter of procuring the ...

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is, that one often comes from a strong will, and t...

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a...

Anything is possible if you've got enough nerve

I seem to see ahead, in a kind of way. I know we are going to take a very long road, into darkness; ...

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

I stretched out on the bed and slept. It was twilight when I awakened and turned on the light. I fel...

When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls ...

Unless God has raised you up for this very thing, you will be worn out by the opposition of men and ...

A certain readiness to perish is not so very rare, but it is seldom that you meet men whose souls, s...

If you wish to be out front, then act as if you were behind.

Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the g...

It is in our genes to understand the universe if we can, to keep trying even if we cannot, and to be...

It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only ...