1,034 Quotes About Persistence

To succeed at anything worthwhile in life requires persistence, no matter how gifted, fortunate, or passionate you are. When I interviewed late bloomers for this book, nearly every one said that once you find your passion and your "pot," you need to hang in there--you need to persist.

Wise is the one who flavors the future with some salt from the past. Becoming dust is no threat to the phoenix born from the ash.

Persistence and consistency are like nail and finger. Always point forward even when the hand/arm is tired.

To persist with a goal, you must treasure the dream more than the costs of sacrifice to attain it.

Practice places mind in your muscles.

If I did not believe in life, if I were to lose faith in the woman I love, if I were to lose faith in the order of things, even if I were to become convinced, on the contrary, that everything is a disorderly, damned, and perhaps devilish chaos, if I were struck even by all the horrors of human disillusionment-still I would want to live, and as long as I have bent to this cup, I will not tear myself from it until I've drunk it all!

Everyone at some point in life have faced rejection and failure, it is part of the process to self realisation.

Build a door if opportunity is yet to knock.

Turn your weakness into your richness.