1,034 Quotes About Persistence

Pain, anguish and suffering in human life are always in proportion to the strength with which a man is endowed.

The answer is always "no", if you don't ask.

Standing up is the easiest part, but standing up, again, is the part where it needs all of your strength, courage, love, discipline, motivation, determination, persistence, it requires every bit of your soul to stand again, and again, and again.

... you know that soft is stronger than hard, water stronger than rocks, love stronger than force.

The problem with patience is that we are not patient enough to learn it.

When it all comes together, it is oddly beautiful and it makes sense.

Most great accomplishments do not look promising in the beginning. If you give up on a big dream too early, you have probably stepped on gold and mistook it for a rock.

You may face many disappointments. But don’t lose hope.

I watched a squirrel fall from a rather high branch. Upon hitting the ground, he bounced slightly, paused, shook himself vigorously and then immediately scampered back up to the very same place on the very same branch from which he’d fallen. There are some that might call that stupidity. Then there are others like myself who would call that tenacity. And while I generally have no interest in being a squirrel, in this particular respect I wouldn’t mind being like one.