Quotes about Persistence
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal. Nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong attitude.
— Thomas Jefferson
Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself.
— Thomas Jefferson
If you find yourself at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
— Thomas Jefferson
In the environment, every victory is temporary, every defeat permanent.
— Thomas Jefferson
A man who fails well is greater than one who succeeds badly.
— Thomas Merton
One of the strange laws of the contemplative life is that in it you do not sit down and solve problems: you bear with them until they somehow solve themselves.
— Thomas Merton
We do not want to be beginners. But let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything else but beginners, all our life!
— Thomas Merton
If you persist in trying To attain what is never attained (It is Tao's gift!) If you persist in making effort To obtain what effort cannot get; If you persist in reasoning About what cannot be understood, You will be destroyed By the very thing you seek.
— Thomas Merton
PRAYER and love are really learned in the hour when prayer becomes impossible and your heart turns to stone.
— Thomas Merton
Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
— Thomas Paine
When I was little, I asked my mom to help me memorize Matthew 7:7: "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
— Kathie Lee Gifford
Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly, naturally you could do a great deal to get rid of them but you can't. You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.
— Kathleen Norris