Persistence Quotes

A big shot is a little shot who keeps on shootin'

The sun had, in the meanwhile, sunk behind the Ettersberg. We felt in the wood the chill of the evening, and drove all the quicker to Wiemar, and to Goethe's house. Goethe urged me to go in with him for a while, and I did so. He was in an extremely engaging mood. He talked a great deal about his theory of colors, and of his obstinate opponents; remarking that he was sure that he had done something in this science.

I will persist. I will always take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another.

The greatest failure in life is to stop trying.

Success always demands a greater effort.

Wishing will not bring riches. But desiring riches with a state of mind that becomes an obsession, then planning definite ways and means to acquire riches, and backing those plans with persistence which does not recognize failure, will bring riches.

Lasting achievement, whatever the endeavor, comes from a commitment to excellence every step of the way.

If I persist, if I continue to try, if I continue to charge forward, I will succeed!

Lack of persistence is one of the major causes of failure. Moreover, experience with thousands of people has proved that lack of persistence is a weakness common to the majority of men. It is a weakness which may be overcome with effort.

If you lie down in a village square hoping to capture a sea gull, you could stay there your whole life without succeeding. But a hundred miles from shore it's different. Sea gulls have a highly developed instinct for self-preservation on land but at sea they're very cocky.

I began absolutely non-stop tormenting my parents, begging them on a daily basis to move there.

Fighting for what you think is right is always worth it.

As you head toward your goals, be prepared to make some slight adjustments to your course. You don't change your decision to go - you do change your direction to get there.

Course, that's the trouble with politics, it breeds politics! So that makes it pretty hard to stamp out.

Keep digging your well. Water is there somewhere.

A journey of a thousand leagues begins beneath one's feet.

If at first you do succeed, quit trying on investing.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

Since mine own doors refuse to entertain me, I'll knock elsewhere, to see if they'll disdain me

Satyagraha is a force that has come to stay. No force in the world can kill it.

Suppressing ideas never succeeds in making them go away.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it. How many a person has thrown up his or her hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience, would have achieved success. A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

Success comes from taking the initiative and following up or persisting.

Everything stinks until it's finished.

Truly, “thoughts are things,” and powerful things at that, when they are mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire for their translation into riches, or other material objects.

Not realizing what you want is a problem of knowledge. Not pursuing what you want is a problem of motivation. Not achieving what you want is a problem of persistence.

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

If we grow weary and give up, the goal remains for someone else to achieve.

My persistence is the measure of the belief I have in myself.

I will persist until I succeed. I was not delivered into this world into defeat, nor does failure course in my veins. I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by my shepperd. I am lion and I refuse to talk, to walk, to sleep with the sheep. The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny. I will persist until I succeed.

Errors flies from mouth to mouth, from pen to pen, and to destroy it takes ages.

If the first plan which you adopt does not work successfully, replace it with a new plan; if this new plan fails to work, replace it in turn with still another, and so on, until you find a plan which does work. Right here is the point at which the majority of men meet with failure, because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

Franklin's illness...gave him strength and courage he had not had before. He had to think out the fundamentals of living and learn the greatest of all lessons - infinite patience and never ending persistence.

I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it.

I'm kinda like herpes, I just keep coming back.

I couldn't tell you exactly what I like about golf. Just when you think you've got it mastered it lets you know you haven't. I'm just crazy enough to do it.

The challenge of statesmanship is to have the vision to dream of a better, safer world and the courage, persistence, and patience to turn that dream into reality.

The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime; for one swallow does not a summer make.

You will never see the end, if you give up in the middle

Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You would be surprised to find how far off they are, for they do not look it. When they first showed last night I tried to knock some down with a pole, but it didn't reach, which astonished me. Then I tried clods till I was all tired out, but I never got one. I did make some close shots, for I saw the black blot of the clod sail right into thee midst of the golden clusters forty or fifty times, just barely missing them, and if I could've held out a little longer, maybe I could've got one.

Happiness is like the mountain summit. It is sometimes hidden by clouds, but we know it is there.

What you resist persist.

Determination and persistence are melded together. Their basis comes from people who stay hungry and don`t allow themselves to get too comfortable. Entering a comfort zone is the fastest way to kill your drive and determination, at which point you begin to accept whatever you have as being "good enough." There is no self-esteem in accepting the status quo. There are tremendous emotional and psychological rewards that come with pushing yourself to break through past limits and, in the process, creating something of value for yourself and others.

Persistence, persistence, and persistence. The Power can be created and maintained through daily practice - continuous effort.

I know that I have the ability to achieve the object of my Definite Purpose in life, therefore, I demand of myself persistent, continuous action toward its attainment, and I here and now promise to render such action.

One thing we all know, if one does not possess PERSISTENCE, one does not achieve noteworthy success in any calling.

Do Something.If it works, do more of it.If it doesn't,do something else.

A writer writes. Period. No matter if someone is buying your work or not.

The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.

If you can keep on trying after three failures in a given undertaking you may consider yourself a 'suspect' as a potential leader in your chosen occupation. If you can keep on trying after a dozen failures the seed of a genius is germinating within your soul.

As things stand now, I am going to be a writer. I'm not sure that I'm going to be a good one or even a self-supporting one, but until the dark thumb of fate presses me to the dust and says 'you are nothing', I will be a writer.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

If I persist long enough I will win.

You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about.

Never give up on an idea simply because it is bad and doesn't work.

The truth can wait, for it lives a long life.

One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.

Endurance is often the best indicator of validity & value

Nature yields her most profound secrets to the person who is determined to uncover them.

Genius is the ability to hold one's vision steady until it becomes reality