1,034 Quotes About Persistence

I stood in my garden as the rain poured down, eyes closed, and when I opened them I thought to myself how I'd never seen anything more beautiful. Green flashed before my eyes; trees, leaves and grass, glittering with raindrops, the tears of angels weeping with sadness and joy; green, the colour of love, to remind me why I'm here.

A hundred failures would not matter, when one single success could change the destiny of the world.

Most overnight successes are about ten years in the making.

Catastrophe alone sparks man’s salvation. I don’t mean in the religious sense, although I guess it is appropriate there, too, because believers agree that salvation comes only after death. It is part of the human near-tragedy that we learn more from loss than from gain. Gain binds us until we stumble and fall into that black pit then we find the spirit of understanding and truth. And if we fall far enough and still persist, we find our salvation.

We the experts in cognitive and behavioral sciences can predict human behavior but not human potential. What this means is that, though we can tell how a person is likely to feel, think and behave in a certain situation, we still cannot tell what a person is capable of. Hence the possibilities that a person holds in their neurons are immeasurable.

The physical is subordinate to the imaginary. Sight capitulates to a fervent dream. The present can't resist the persistence of an imagined future.

Triumphs are usually the outcomes of countless learned-from 'failures

In the achievement of dreams demands 100 percent dedication.

A willing spirit, a determined effort.