When I have tried and failed, I shall have failed.

Don’t quit. It’s very easy to quit during the first 10 years. Nobody cares whether you write or not, and it’s very hard to write when nobody cares one way or the other. You can’t...

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...

Strong enough to make holes in the rock are tiny drops of water that persist to fall. Persistence is the attitude that breaks down mountains one rock at a time!

Don’t be discouraged when they laugh at your adversity; instead, smile at them, because through persistence, perseverance and faith, you would be laughing at their surprised faces in the future.

Life’s difficulties develop in us strong spirit. Every challenge we overcome promotes strength of the spirit.

Holding on, holding out and holding fast when the going is tough constitutes a winning mindset.

Start over, and start over, and start over.

The best way out is always through.

Persistence is the most traveled path to success.

When your efforts run in the face of conventional wisdom and accepted mastery, persistence can look like madness. If you succeed in the end, this extreme originality reformulates into a new level of mastery, sometimes...

Stop now and always wonder. Press forward and tap the wonder.

In conservation, the motto should always be ‘never say die’.

Never let those who say it can’t be done obstruct you from pursuing your goals.

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

There are two ways to do great mathematics. The first is to be smarter than everybody else. The second way is to be stupider than everybody else — but persistent.

Success doesn’t come to you; you go to it.

… if they are persistent enough, even tiny drops of water, over time, can change the rock forever. And it will never change back.” – Zoe

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...

The crazy creatives are the creatives who never go completely mad. They aren’t so easily disheartened by the seemingly endless amounts of scrutiny that creative individuals tend to receive because they, like insanity, are the...

The only way when your thirst for excellence is satisfied is when you take up the challenge to do a little more every day than you have already been doing every day!

Keep moving; keep moving, no matter how slow you move, you must keep moving.

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

Vision and persistence will take you to the top of the leadership mountain, but only humility will keep you there.

Persistence contagious.

Inspiring qualities make some people to feel a little uneasy.

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,...

My trash can got stolen five times. Finally the owner just let me have it.

Persistence and passion will make you invincible.

P’s of life; Passionate life, Persistent life.

press on” have solved and will continue to solve the problems of humanity.

Forgive your past because it the vehicle through your process and from this point forward your life is made of 100% future; Caterpillars always look up despite having no wings… and butterflies don’t waste time...

life has a funny way of testing you to see if you really want, what you say you want.

Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the...

What matters more than where you are is the direction you are heading.

To esteem what makes you holy over what makes you happy – that is the greatest dare.

Persistence is the key to life. You never know, just around the corner could be another right angle.

It’s always there, constant like the stones in this cave. Maybe we should be like the moon’s reflection, holding fast whatever happens?

Failures are part of life lessons.Keep trying no matter how many times you fail. You will one day succeed.

Persistence is often a detective’s greatest ally.

You can either follow your dreams with determination and persistence until they become true, or you can be blown by the winds of fate – were anything can happen.

As you think and act, so your world becomes.

Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

People don’t just live one life. They keep coming back until they get it right.

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

As the tides of life rise and fall, life is constant, like the waves crashing upon the shore. Persistence is the key in high and low times…

O snailClimb Mount FujiBut slowly, slowly!

There is no such thing as helplessness. It’s just another word for giving up.

The only people capable of handling success are those who have learned to handle failures w/o taking their eyes off the prize.

Education is a choice. We don’t become educated by watching television, and we don’t learn a whole lot having similar conversations with the same, safe people day after day. Our education comes from pushing up...