1,034 Quotes About Persistence

Sometimes the universe uses ridicule as a tool to turn you into a titan and tighten up all your loose screws.

Without a vision, where is the focus?

Passion, patient, perseverance and persistent are four keys to great achievements.

Imagination, persistence, perseverance, and trust transform dreams into reality.

The rewrites are a struggle right now. Sometimes I wish writing a book could just be easy for me at last. But when I think about it practically, I am glad it's a struggle. I am (as usual) attempting to write a book that's too hard for me. I'm telling a story I'm not smart enough to tell. The risk of failure is huge. But I prefer it this way. I'm forced to learn, forced to smarten myself up, forced to wrestle. And if it works, then I'll have written something that is better than I am.

If you give up on your dreams, let that crush you and destroy you, even if just a little, if your children are watching. Otherwise, when you're telling them that they must pursue theirs, they will look at you and say "you didn't and you're doing just fine.

Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

Do what you can with what you have where you are, and God will do the rest.

The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.