Persistence Quotes

The sky is not my limit...I am.

~ T.f. Hodge

The Motto of Champions: If you are hurt, you can suck it up and press on. If injured, you can rebound and return bigger and better...and continue to inspire!

~ T.f. Hodge

This path was not that of my conscious choosing. But after persistent subconscious confrontation, I have finally embraced what is, 'souly' for me...and I am thankful, when called upon, to be able to share and give to those who seek their own way of the path.

~ T.f. Hodge

Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power.

~ Amit Kalantri

One who doesn't recognise an opportunity is bigger loser than one who tries his hand at an opportunity.

~ Amit Kalantri

Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.

~ Criss Jami

If you're waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you'll never make it.

~ Criss Jami

When your only regret is if anyone thinks you regret anything - that is the definition of conviction.

~ Criss Jami

Really, there was only one sensible thing to do. Stay the course. Pray it through, day by day, minute by minute. The Lord had an answer and it would surely come. (p. 203)

~ Janice Hanna

Fame and fortune await the few with the faith to fall forward despite frustrating failures.

~ Orrin Woodward

Trees endure the hot sun and rainstorms by sending their roots down deeper. The adversity they face is eventually the source of great stability. The harshness of the elements surrounding them causes them to seek another source of life. They will one day come to the place that even the greatest of windstorms cannot affect their ability to produce fruit.

~ John Bevere

Hit the reset button. Whatever happened yesterday, forget about it. Get a new perspective. Today is a new day. Fresh start, begins now.

~ Germany Kent

You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.

~ Isaac Asimov

First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice.

~ Octavia E. Butler

I wrote a book. It sucked. I wrote nine more books. They sucked, too. Meanwhile, I read every single thing I could find on publishing and writing, went to conferences, joined professional organizations, hooked up with fellow writers in critique groups, and didn’t give up. Then I wrote one more book.

~ Beth Revis

When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I write one page and then another. One day's work is all I can permit myself to contemplate.

~ John Steinbeck

Listen, Stephen King used to write in the washroom of his trailer after his kids went to sleep. Harlan Ellison wrote in the stall of a bathroom of his barracks during boot camp. Elmore Leonard got up at 5 AM every morning to write before work.Every time my alarm goes off at 5 AM and I don’t want to get up, or I would rather sit down after work and play a videogame, I think about those guys. Take care of your family. They need you and love you. Make time for them. Then stop screwing around and finish your damn book.

~ Bernard Schaffer

The rewrites are a struggle right now. Sometimes I wish writing a book could just be easy for me at last. But when I think about it practically, I am glad it's a struggle. I am (as usual) attempting to write a book that's too hard for me. I'm telling a story I'm not smart enough to tell. The risk of failure is huge. But I prefer it this way. I'm forced to learn, forced to smarten myself up, forced to wrestle. And if it works, then I'll have written something that is better than I am.

~ Shannon Hale

Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.

~ Maya Angelou

Unless God has raised you up for this very thing, you will be worn out by the opposition of men and devils. But if God be for you, who can be against you? Are all of them together stronger than God? O be not weary of well doing!

~ John Wesley

In my experience, nothing worthwhile has ever really been all that easy. But it certainly has been worthwhile regardless how difficult it seemed.

~ Robert Fanney

Fight ever on: this earthly stuff If used God’s way will be enough. Face to the firing line o friendFight out life’s battle to the end. One soldier, when the fight was red,Threw down his broken sword and fled.Another snatched it, won the day, With what his comrade flung away.

~ Edwin Markham

The distance between your Dreams and Reality is inversely proportional to your Efforts.

~ Vineet Raj Kapoor

when you become addict in to MATERIAL things in life then the TRUE natural life start to run away from you, YES! it's can give you certain pleasure in the society but in the same time it will sabotage your true HAPPINESS of life which we could have simply with GRATITUDE and FORGIVENESS

~ Rashedur Ryan Rahman

REJECTION is kind of your negative ILLUSION which has no value but it’s give you a CLUE to go for next level of your ACTION.

~ Rashedur Ryan Rahman

Autumn is a momentum of the natures golden beauty…, so the same it’s time to find your momentum of life

~ Rashedur Ryan Rahman

CONFIDENCE is not showing off your VANITY, it’s about to be HUMBLED and KIND to others what are you truly SKILLED and PROFESSIONAL about…

~ Rashedur Ryan Rahman

Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

~ Winston S. Churchill

Do not sit still; start moving now. In the beginning, you may not go in the direction you want, but as long as you are moving, you are creating alternatives and possibilities.

~ Rodolfo Costa

It may take little time to get where you want to be, but if you pause and think for a moment, you will notice that you are no longer where you were. Do not stop—keep going.

~ Rodolfo Costa

Patience and persistence are the keys... The keys to unlock doors of success... With these two virtues, you grow in reasoning and experience.

~ Ogwo David Emenike

As I began examining my successes and failures, what I gradually realized was that the very same activities that had rescued me from failure, that had carried me from the failure line up to the survival line, would also rescue me from average and carry me from the survival line to the success line-IF I WOULD JUST KEEP DOING THEM.

~ Jeff Olson

A leader’s meal is that unstoppable desire to stay late to see his dreams achieved. They never give up.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Get this; without a continuous struggle, your previous struggles will become a waste. Stay on and hold on until the success become evident.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

If you care to know, majority of successful people in the world were all struck by limitations in one way or the other. What made them great isn’t the absence of limitations; but it was their persistence to rise in the face of those limitations.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Then it began to dawn on us: There was no miracle moment. Although it may have looked like a single-stroke breakthrough to those peering in from the outside, it was anything but that to people experiencing transformation from within. Rather, it was a quiet, deliberate process of figuring out what needed to be done to create the best future results and then simply taking those steps, one after the other, turn by turn of the flywheel. After pushing on that flywheel in a consistent direction over an extended period of time, they'd inevitably hit a point of breakthrough.

~ James C. Collins

The only things you learn are the things you tame

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

Do not quit too soon. The future is bright like a shining diamond.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

There is a sacred cost for everything.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

There is a price to be paid for any accomplishment.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita