Quotes about Persistence

My part, was the prompt reply, was to run away, and the Lord's part was to run after me until He caught me.

An idea is a curious thing. It will not work unless you do.

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

You know, there is always times where you feel discouraged and things coming against you, but I don't know if I ever wanted to throw in the towel.

I've known since I was about six that I wanted to be an actor, but I grew up in a very small country town, and it was just not something that was possible.

So, I got a lot of recruitment letters from track.

It's a very good thing to teach kids to finish what they started in the sense of fulfilling their commitments. So when my daughter told me on the second track meet that she was done with it because she discovered she didn't like competing, I made her finish the season.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf.

Those who can take that crabbed tree handsomely upon their back, and fasten it on cannily, shall find it such a burden as wings unto a bird, or sails to a ship.

The secret of making dreams come true can be summarized in four C's.They are Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, and Constancy; and the greatest of these is Confidence.

I am for keeping the thing going while things are stirring. Because if we wait till it is still, it will take a great while to get it going again.