Quotes about Persistence

How many times do you have to get hit over the head until you figure out who's hitting you.

Hope," Jane said, "is what enables us to keep going in the face of adversity. It is what we desire to happen, but we must be prepared to work hard to make it so.

It was from a species long thought to be extinct—a species known only from the fossil record, a species that turned out to have survived for two hundred million years. Those trees, who came to be known as Wollemi pines, had been in that canyon, getting on with their lives, through seventeen Ice Ages!

Research is so unpredictable. There are periods when nothing works and all your experiments are a disaster and all your hypotheses are wrong.

I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.

Just because Fate doesn't deal you the right cards, it doesn't mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

A pearl never loses its value, not even when covered with dirt.

You can switch off all the lights, but that won't stop the sun from rising.

There is no magic to achievement. It's really about hard work, choices, and persistence.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

Everybody is looking for instant success, but it doesn't work that way. You build a successful life one day at a time.