Quotes about Persistence
You never stop trying.
- John Wooden
principle, per-sis tence, and compassion—three
- John Wooden
You often find what you're looking for.
- John Wooden
Patience is the ability to wait and calmly preserve. We all grow impatient, but some people have more trouble waiting than others do. We tend to forget that all good things take time.
- John Wooden
Try your hardest in all ways and you are a success.
- John Wooden
By repeatedly bringing your attention back to the breath each time it wanders off, concentration builds and deepens, much as muscles develop by repetitively lifting weights.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
It's better to succeed against daunting odds than settle for a fantasy and get nowhere.
- Michael Hyatt
My father used to say that it's never too late to do anything you wanted to do. And he said, 'You never know what you can accomplish until you try.'
- Michael Jordan
No half-heartedness and no worldly fear must turn us aside from following the light unflinchingly.
- JRR Tolkien
They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.
- James Allen
While doubt cannot be expelled, it can be subdued.
- Richard Baxter
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