Quotes about Persistence

Don't duck the most difficult problems. That just ensures that the hardest part will be left when you are most tired. Get the big one done - it's downhill from then on.

If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed … nothing shall be impossible unto you.

but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus." (Philippians 3:13-14)

Try, really try. Think, really think. Believe, really believe.

that verse many times, but it never had any effect

The sure way to success is so simple, but it requires character, guts, persistence, the mastery of lower jobs to be ready for the better ones.

Winston Churchill expresses it well. He says, "Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Be an all-out, not a hold out.

A major key to success in this life, to attaining that which you deeply desire, is to be completely released and throw all there is of yourself into your studies or any project in which you are engaged. In other words, whatever you are doing, give it all you've got.

It is always too soon to quit.

Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. No one was there.

If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.