Quotes about Persistence
We cannot do great deeds unless we're willing to do the small things that make up the sum of greatness.
- Theodore Roosevelt
I you think you've done it, then you're wrong. Because you're not finished until you have achieved everything that you never thought you could.
- Brennan Manning
Every great success is an accumulation of thousands of ordinary efforts that no one else sees or appreciates.
- Brian Tracy
We are not a failure just because we fail at something. Nobody is a failure unless they quit trying!
- Joyce Meyer
If you love writing or making music or blogging or any sort of performing art, then do it. Do it with everything you've got. Just don't plan on using it as a shortcut to making a living.
- Seth Godin
If I spend 100 days in a row making music there's a chance nothing will come of it. But if I spend 100 days not making music it's guaranteed that nothing will come of it. So keep working.
- Moby
The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.
- Napoleon Hill
As long as the Earth can make a spring every year I can. As long as the Earth can flower and produce nurturing fruit I can because I'm the Earth. I won't give up until the Earth gives up.
- Alice Walker
Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Everything comes if a man will only wait.
- Benjamin Disraeli
All things pass... Patience attains all it strives for.
- Teresa of Avila