Quotes about Persistence

Do something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.

I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

How many times in her life had she been faced with the same Sisyphean task?

Winston Churchill said it well: "Success is never final; failure is never fatal. It is courage that counts.

Active waiting is essential to the spiritual life.

Setting our hearts on something involves not only serious aspiration but also strong determination. A spiritual life requires human effort. The forces that keep pulling us back into a worry-filled life are far from easy to overcome.

We may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we would preserve the true course.

I sometimes despair of getting anything quite simple and honest done in this world by the help of men. They would have to be passed through a powerful press first, to squeeze their old notions out of them, so that they would not soon get upon their legs again; and then there would be some one in the company with a maggot in his head, hatched from an egg deposited there nobody knows when, for not even fire kills these things, and you would have lost your labor.

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not to be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever.