Persistence Quotes

There have been innumerable Temporary Seekers after the Truth-have you ever heard of a permanent one?

You gotta keep trying to find your niche and trying to fit into whatever slot that's left for you or to make one of your own.

The difference in the profit and loss is usually ... do not quit.

Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy.

You have to be persistent.

That the soft overcomes the hard, and the yielding overcomes the resistant, is a fact known by all, but practiced by few.

What is well planted will not be uprooted.

Let him take heart who does advance, even in the smallest degree.

Affection faints not like a pale-faced coward, But then woos best when most his choice is froward.

... active love is a harsh and fearful thing compared with the love in dreams. Love in dreams thirsts for immediate action, quickly performed, and with everyone watching. Indeed, it will go as far as the giving even of one's life, provided it does not take long but is soon over, as on stage, and eveyone is looking on and praising. Whereas active love is labor and persistence, and for some people, perhaps, a whole science.

Constant dropping wears away stones

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

The mountain remains unmoved at its seeming defeat by the mist.

There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn't because the book is not there and worth being written -- it is only because the right form of the story does not present itself. There is only one right form for a story and if you fail to find that form the story will not tell itself.

We may stand, if only on one leg, or at least be left still upon our knees.

If people maintain the belief systems that empower them, they'll keep coming back with enough action and enough resourcefulness to succeed eventually.

I'm gonna have to be killed before I lose, and I ain't going to die easy.

The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.

I won't give up the diary again. I must hold on here, it is the only place I can.

Yes... it wasn't over, it still isn't over.

The Party is not concerned with perpetuating its blood but with perpetuating itself. WHO wields power is not important, provided that the hierarchical structure remains always the same.

Doing a scene is like opening a bottle. If it doesn't open one way, try another - perhaps even give it up for another bottle?

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Love is always mutual and reflective. You may hate me, and if I want to love you, you repulse me. But if I persist, in a month or a year you are bound to love me. It is a well-known psychological phenomenon.

If you FAIL, never give up because F.A.I.L. means "First Attempt in Learning". END is not the end; in fact E.N.D. means "Effort Never Dies". If you get NO as an answer, remember N.O. means "Next Opportunity".

Most failures could have been converted into successes if someone had held on another minute or made more effort.

Entrepreneurship is like eating glass and walking on hot coals at the same time

I will try not to panic, to keep my standard of living modest and to work steadily, even shyly, in the spirit of those medieval carvers who so fondly sculpted the undersides of choir seats.

Explore an idea until you've exhausted it, really go to all the different parameters of it.

Persistence with patience and prayer pays with profits, prosperity and peace of mind.

Little strokes fell great oaks.

Write till your ink be dry, and with your tearsMoist it again, and frame some feeling lineThat may discover such integrity.

Practical dreamers do not quit.

Riches don't respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence.

I've got my teeth into him, and I'm not going to let go.

If we are honest and fair, then we are known by that. If we are not, alas, we are known by that as well. What we want to do is do right, but you have to say it, you have to show it, and not stop.

And if I should live to beThe last leaf upon the treeIn the spring,Let them smile, as I do now,At the old forsaken boughWhere I cling.

Achievement does not require extraordinary ability. Achievement comes from ordinary abilities applied with extraordinary persistence.

You all know the saying which is very true: What you resist persists. And I'm sure many of you have already found that out in your life. And then suddenly when you let go of resistance you let go of an attachment to something: I need this to happen in order to be happy; I don't want what is, I want something else. To be okay with what is, which is the simplicity of this moment, is the beginning of true change.

Said the river: imagine everything you can imagine, then keep on going.

Nature refuses to rest.

Riches amassed in haste will diminish; but those collected by hand and little by little will multiply.

Whenever I look at the history of presidents I deeply admire - the one thing that I'm always struck by is persistence. It's a quality that's underrated. Being able to plough through, being able to stay buoyant in the face of challenges.

How long should you try? Until.

But when the fox hath once got in his nose, He'll soon find means to make the body follow.

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

Still, life had a way of adding day to day

The difference in winning & losing is most often, not quitting.

If you take the time and put in the effort to write your own material and absolutely refuse to be denied the right to make your film it is difficult whatever colour you are.

We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.

If you share a good idea long enough, it will eventually fall on good people.

Keep on keeping on, no matter how hard the going may be.

If you are truly flexible and go until... there is really very little you can't accomplish in your lifetime.

If you so choose, every mistake can lead to greater understanding and effectiveness. If you so choose, every frustration can help you to be more patient and more persistent.

A man without persistence will never make a good shaman or a good physician.

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

One must keep repeating the Truth.

I will persist until I succeed!

Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.

If you give up before your goal has been reached, you are a "quitter." A QUITTER NEVER WINS AND A WINNER NEVER QUITS. Lift this sentence out, write it on a piece of paper in letters an inch high, and place it where you will see it every night before you go to sleep, and every morning before you go to work