Quotes about Persistence
Patience and fortitude conquer all things.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
— Epictetus
The best way out of a difficulty is through it.
— Anonymous
What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does, he should do with all his might.
— Cicero
Failure is not in losing, but in no longer believing that winning is worthwhile.
— Anonymous
A mistake is not a failure, but evidence that someone tried to do something.
— Anonymous
It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards; they will be dissipated, lost and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence.
— Maria Edgeworth
All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet.
— John F. Kennedy
Habit is habit, and not to be thrown out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
— Mark Twain
Sound principles and eternal truths need to be frequently repeated so that we do not forget their application nor become dissuaded by other arguments.
— Ezra Taft Benson
The only failure is not to try.
— George Clooney