Quotes about Persistence

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

Love is a choice. It's a decision.' She told us, 'It flows into, through, and out of each person like a river. If you try to stop it, it'll sneak around until It finds another heart and breaks through.

People who soar are those who refuse to sit back, sigh and wish things would change. They neither complain of their lot nor passively dream of some distant ship coming in. Rather, they visualize in their minds that they are not quitters they will not allow life's circumstances to push them down and hold them under.

Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.

We must remember that the shortest distance between our problems and their solutions is the distance between our knees and the floor.

Our willingness to wait reveals the value we place on the object we're waiting for.

Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway.

O Shepherd. You said you would make my feet like hinds' feet and set me upon High Places". "Well", he answered "the only way to develop hinds' feet is to go by the paths which the hinds use.

In all the world I have no one but you. Help me to follow you, even though it seems impossible. Help me to trust you as much as I long to love you.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

Perfection lies in fullness of journey. For this reason, never think you have arrived. Forget what lies behind you, reach out for what lies before you. Through the very change in which you lose what you have snatched up you will at last be transformed into what you crave for with such longing.