Quotes about Persistence

I am so dedicated, so passionate, and that counts for more than what crazy people throw at me.

When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering you own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves.

The tired ox treads with a firmer step.

He who has waited long enough, will wait forever. And there comes the hour when nothing more can happen and nobody more can come and all is ended but the waiting that knows itself in vain.

Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Clear your mind of can't.

Attack is the reaction; I never think I have hit hard unless it rebounds.

What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence.

It cost Christ and all His followers sharp showers and hot sweats ere they won to the top of the mountain. But still our soft nature would have heaven coming to our bedside when we are sleeping, and lying down with us, that we might go to heaven in warm clothes; but all that came there found wet feet by the way, and sharp storms that did take the hide off their face, and found tos and fros, and ups and downs, and many enemies by the way.