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Persistence Quotes


"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!"


"When you get a pinch and decide to give up, you will get a cut when you eventually do so. The consequences of giving up are more harmful than the causes. Just don't give up!"


"For most of the process, nothing but faith, fueled by your own stubbornness, will be pulling you along. The work that you've done on the book so far won't be much comfort, because so much of it will be insufferable crap, until the very last moment, when you figure out how to fix it and everything comes together."


"I believe that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there will still be one more sound: that of man's puny, inexhaustible, voice still talking! ...not simply because man alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because man has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion, sacrifice and endurance."


"Just because many have tried and failed, doesn't make the task impossible."


"If you continue to hit your head against the wall, don't be surprised if your head hurts."


"I think people give up, because it's the easy option, but my goodness; why would giving up be easy? Your living your life chasing anything to fill the void of what came about when you let go of everything that mattered? I'd rather fight like mad, for everything that will ever matter, because giving in to anything that doesn't will never cure the dream."


"Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions."


"Never give up because when you give up, dreams get lost."


"In every endeavor, you owe it to yourself to always push until the door of opportunity of opens."


"Patience is a virtue, but there comes a moment when you must stop being patient and take the day by the throat and shake it. If it fights back; fine. I'd rather end up bloody at the end of the day, then unhurt with no progress made, no knowledge gained. I'd rather have a no, then nothing. I'd forgotten that about myself."


"Without continuous encouragement, we may give up."


"Never stop just because you feel defeated. The journey to the other side is attainable only after great suffering."


"Whatever is difficult for you become easy if you take a bite of it every day. Try again and again!"


"A rock that perseveres under heat and pressure soon becomes a diamond."


"They say it's impossible.I refuse to believe it. The journey may be difficult and the desired end unlikely. My patience and commitment may be tested by something that won't happen overnight. It may be that I veer off the path or quit before reaching my goal, but that doesn't mean it is impossible."


"If you do not have persistence then no amount of education, talent or genius can make up for it."


"God wants us to move persistently towards His goals."


"After spending all of his resources to create all of us, not just one or two people, but in millions and billions and yet, God cannot find a man who will stand for him."


"I am a slow walker, but I never walk back."


"If you are lacking confidence in something, just keep trying and don't give up."


"Sometimes giving up feels like the easiest thing to do. But then the easiest thing has never produced more than a garden full of weeds."


"No matter how hard things get, you owe it to yourself to always find a way to persist and persevere until you are greatly rewarded for all your pain and sufferings."


"Persistence is the source of great strength."


"Take the broken pieces of your life, bake a master cake out of it. Don't stand still like a lake; keep flowing like a stream!"


"Don't give up searching."


"There's a reason why golfers walk forward to their next shot. It's to move on."


"If you want a fried fish to fly and enter your mouth, you must keep waiting till the unending time ends. Dead fish doesn't fly. If you want to eat it, your own hands must carry it."


"To pray is to make petition."


"The third level of prayer, which is much more serious is knocking."


"Giving up isn't a deed. It is 'discontinuity' of a deed."


"The number one skill in life is not giving up."
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