Quotes about Persistence

I now think it takes more faith to name our need than to keep believing that something will happen and not doing anything about it. It takes faith, and great courage, to get help, to take the first painful step toward the dream that is in our hearts...I know now that you can look at bricks and cement for years, believing in the vision of a home, but until you get down on your hands and knees and start to build, it will remain a dream.

I've done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price - which has been the case most of the time.

We can never be like lillies in the garden unless we have spent time as bulbs in the dark, totally ignored.

Be persistent, and hang on to your vision. And at the same time, be flexible.

I'm a hopeless prayer. I think somewhere in there I spend a great deal of time at it.

Time and again, the Faith has to all appearances gone to the dogs. But each time, it was the dog that died.

I didn't always have time to practice as much as I wanted to do, that was a real problem for me in high school and college.

Never give up on a dream because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.

Practice yourself in little things and thence proceed to greater.

Every worthwhile accomplishment big or little has its stages of drudgery and triumph a beginning a struggle and a victory.

Anybody, and any company, can have a big run of success once, but if you're going to repeat that over time, you need to be aware that you need to keep learning.

For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.