Persistence Quotes

Water flows, but never changes. It's always H2O.

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

She dabbed at the surface of the water with one paw, and the moon fluttered like silver wings before settling again as the water stilled. Letting out a faint mrrow of wonder, Half Moon dabbed again and again. However often she disturbed the surface, the moon was still there.“It doesn’t give up, does it?” Half Moon blinked at Jayfeather. “It’s always there, constant like the stones in this cave. Maybe we should be like the moon’s reflection, holding fast whatever happens?

~ Erin Hunter

Change is hard at first,Messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.

~ Robin S. Sharma

You can always try another approach, even change your subject when a scientific strategy or experiment fails.

~ Ada Yonath

If the knock once and door remain lock, do not turn away. With persistent knocks, the door will be open.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If knock the door once and it remains lock, do not turn away. With persistent knocks, the door will be open.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A child falls many times in attempt to walk.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

While persistence offers no guarantees, it does give 'luck' a chance to operate.

~ Tom Shippey

Winners never suffer defeat, but rather just many setbacks on their way to victory.

~ Orrin Woodward

The ordeal is not that truth does not win, it is that it wins in the end.

~ Raheel Farooq

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.

~ Winston S. Churchill

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.

~ Peter F. Drucker

It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward.

~ Louis Sachar

We are made to persist.that's how we find out who we are.

~ Tobias Wolff

Everything passes, but nothing entirely goes away.

~ Jenny Diski

If you wish to be out front, then act as if you were behind.

~ Lao Tzu

Persistence is the key to solving most mysteries.

~ Christopher Pike

You meet dozens of people who tell you you can't do it. Surround yourself with the people who believe you will do it. Seek out and spend time with those rare people who tell you, no BS, why you haven't done it yet, what it takes to do it, and how they could help you do it. Note how this advice works whether 'it' is robbing a bank, opening a gallery, or writing a bestseller. It is up to you. But you can't do it alone.

~ Heather Grace Stewart

As long as there’s breath in You - PERSIST!

~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

Slight persistent effort can move you successfully forward in anything you do.

~ Kelli Wilson

I took off my sweatshirt and dropped it on the grass and set off around the track. As soon as I started running, the world changed. The bodies spread out across the green of the football field were parts of a scene remembered, not one real at this moment. The secret of effort is to keep on, I told myself. Not for the world would I have stopped then, and yet nothing- not even if I had been turned handsome as a reward for finishing- could have made up for the curious pain of the effort.

~ Harold Brodkey

He taught me how small, day-by-day decisions add up to the great consequences and that every thoughtful and educated decision I made about my life would eventually lead me to a clear and more satisfying understanding of my calling.

~ Eric Motley

I promise permanence. I promise persistence. I promise that falling in love was just the beginning for us.

~ Liz Newman

Look forward to failure. Fail quickly. If it does not start with Failure it is probably not meant to be

~ David Sikhosana

You need to be able to think Independently.

~ David Sikhosana

Push until you can push no more, and then, push some more.

~ Kevin Abdulrahman

Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.

~ Unknown

Words are drops of blood, from my heart.

~ Jean Kenyon Mackenzie

One who finishes, lasts.

~ Jeffrey Fry

Without delayed gratification,there is no persistence.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Hold on to God, hold on to your visions and continue to develop them

~ Sunday Adelaja

Nothing in life is stronger than perseverance; time only promotes it, failure is afraid of it, negative people hide from it, and disease is affected by it. Even rocks give way to perseverance: because if water perseveres its impacts on the surface of a rock long enough, the rock starts to wither.

~ Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana

A certain readiness to perish is not so very rare, but it is seldom that you meet men whose souls, steeled in the impenetrable armour of resolution, are ready to fight a losing battle to the last, the desire of peace waxes stronger as hope declines, till at last it conquers the very desire of life. Which of us here has not observed this, or maybe experienced something of that feeling in his own person - this extreme weariness of emotions, the vanity of effort, the yearning for rest?

~ Joseph Conrad

I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

~ Michael Jordan

Yes, this man had the persistence of an insect.

~ Patrick Modiano

Be persistent like a mosquito, at the end you will get your bite

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Patient is a persistent act.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Love becomes imprudent only when it is impatient to enjoy; but when it is a matter of procuring the return of a happiness to which a baleful combination of circumstances has raised impediments, love sees and foresees all that the most subtle perspicacity can discover.

~ Giacomo Casanova

The source of all things, the luminescence, has more forms than heaven's stars, sure. And one good thought is all it takes to make it shine. But a single mistake can burn down a forest in your heart, hiding all the stars, in all the skies,. And while a mistake's till burning, ruined love or lsot faith can make you think you're done, and you can't go on. But it's not true. It's never true. No matter what you do, no matter where you're lost, the luminescence never leaves you. Any good thing that dies inside ca rise again, if you want it hard enough. The heart doesnt know how to quit, because it doesn't know how to lie. You lift your eyes from the page, fall into the smile of a perfect stranger, and the searching starts all over again. It's not what it was. It's always different. It's always something else. But the new forest that grows back in a scarred heart is sometimes wilder and stronger than it was before the fire. And if you stay in there, in that shine within yourself, that new place of light, forgiving everything and never giving up, sooner or later you'll always find yourself right back there where love and beauty made the world: at the beginning. The beginning. The beginning.

~ ― Gregory David Roberts

The source of all things, the luminescence, has more forms than heaven's stars, sure. And one good thought is all it takes to make it shine. But a single mistake can burn down a forest in your heart, hiding all the stars, in all the skies. And while a mistake's till burning, ruined love or lost faith can make you think you're done, and you can't go on. But it's not true. It's never true. No matter what you do, no matter where you're lost, the luminescence never leaves you. Any good thing that dies inside can rise again, if you want it hard enough. The heart doesn't know how to quit, because it doesn't know how to lie. You lift your eyes from the page, fall into the smile of a perfect stranger, and the searching starts all over again. It's not what it was. It's always different. It's always something else. But the new forest that grows back in a scarred heart is sometimes wilder and stronger than it was before the fire. And if you stay in there, in that shine within yourself, that new place of light, forgiving everything and never giving up, sooner or later you'll always find yourself right back there where love and beauty made the world: at the beginning. The beginning. The beginning.

~ Gregory David Roberts