Quotes about Persistence

I'm a work horse.

While people involved in religious forms of the flesh may believe they are taking sin seriously by persistently reminding people to stop doing it, they are actually trivializing sin by depicting it as something that can be overcome through behavior modification.

If a writer is good at what he does, it's not easy to do a good job every day... To invent something new is almost an impossible task.

One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.

We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

There's too much at stake for you to let some little thing distract you and pull you down into defeat.

Jesus is God's way of refusing to give up his dream for the world.

We gain no easier advantage than by relentlessly pursuing our goal while others pursue an advantage.

It's not that perfection cannot be achieved. It's that it's so hard to stop there.

Every day is conquerable by its hours, and every hour by its minutes.

Never mind the odds against you. If you doubled your effort, what would the odds against you do — send for reinforcements?

Sometimes I think my life would make a great TV movie. It even has the part where they say, "Stand by. We are experiencing temporary difficulties."