Quotes about Persistence
Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.
— Ayn Rand
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
— Babe Ruth
We need to realise that not everyone can take the path to overnight success. Take actors such as Rajkummar Rao and Vicky Kaushal - they have built their work and profile over the years to get to where they are.
— Shriya Pilgaonkar
I don't want anything handed to me, I want to work for everything I have... that's the way I've done everything in my life.
— Christian Cage
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world around him; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
— George Bernard Shaw
People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
— George Bernard Shaw
It is positively because he is quick-witted that he is long-winded.
— George Bernard Shaw
I thought it was all over with me, and there was nothing to try for—only things to endure.
— George Eliot
I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
— George Eliot
The beginning of hardship is like the first taste of bitter food—it seems for a moment unbearable; yet, if there is nothing else to satisfy our hunger, we take another bite and find it possible to go on.
— George Eliot
An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
— George Eliot
I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough - when they are on the very brink of success.
— Joyce Meyer