Quotes about Persistence

Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway.

O Shepherd. You said you would make my feet like hinds' feet and set me upon High Places". "Well", he answered "the only way to develop hinds' feet is to go by the paths which the hinds use.

In all the world I have no one but you. Help me to follow you, even though it seems impossible. Help me to trust you as much as I long to love you.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

Perfection lies in fullness of journey. For this reason, never think you have arrived. Forget what lies behind you, reach out for what lies before you. Through the very change in which you lose what you have snatched up you will at last be transformed into what you crave for with such longing.

Whatsoever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might.'" (Ecclesiastes 9:10)

How many times do you have to get hit over the head until you figure out who's hitting you.

Hope," Jane said, "is what enables us to keep going in the face of adversity. It is what we desire to happen, but we must be prepared to work hard to make it so.

It was from a species long thought to be extinct—a species known only from the fossil record, a species that turned out to have survived for two hundred million years. Those trees, who came to be known as Wollemi pines, had been in that canyon, getting on with their lives, through seventeen Ice Ages!

I have got a self-confidence that I have the ability but felt I was not being lucky and was an unlucky person.

Research is so unpredictable. There are periods when nothing works and all your experiments are a disaster and all your hypotheses are wrong.