Quotes about Persistence
You know, failure hurts. Any kind of failure stings. If you live in the sting, you will - undoubtedly - fail. My way of getting past the sting is to say no, I'm just not going to let this get me down.
— Sonia Sotomayor
Losing one feather does not prevent a bird from flying.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
If a man could outpace his shadow, he would still find it waiting for him at the finishing line.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
You can curse the sun a thousand times, but cannot keep it from shining, even for a day.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
You don't stop planting corn because weeds are going to grow beside it.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
It is possible to draw a straight line with a crooked pencil.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
For it is one thing to see the Land of Peace from a wooded ridge, and yet another to walk the road that leads to it.
— St. Augustine
Short prayers with long legs travel far.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
One of my great goals in life is to live long enough to where I am in the pulpit, preaching my heart out, and I die on the spot, my chin hits the pulpit - boom! - and I'm down and out. What a way to die!
— Charles Swindoll
There's this joy that comes from sitting down to solve a problem and standing up when it's done and good. Building a company or managing people is never just done.
— Drew Houston
Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
— Robert Louis Stevenson