It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward.
Louis SacharTags: persistence incrementalism
We are made to persist.
that's how we find out who we are.
Tags: persistence trial
Everything passes, but nothing entirely goes away.
Jenny DiskiTags: persistence overcoming time-passing
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 BrodkeyTags: persistence effort
Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete? Proving nature's laws wrong, it learned to walk without having feet. Funny, it seems to by keeping it's dreams; it learned to breathe fresh air. Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else even cared.
Tupac ShakurTags: persistence beauty dreams roses hardship concrete
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is, that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
Henry Ward BeecherTags: persistence
Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
James A. MichenerTags: persistence perseverance character tenacity
A friend of mine, the most innocuous dreamer who ever lived, once set a forest on fire to see, as he said, if it would catch as easily as people said. The first ten times the experiment was a failure; but on the eleventh it succeeded all too well.
Charles BaudelaireTags: persistence fire
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 WesleyTags: persistence inspiration good-works
O snail
Climb Mount Fuji
But slowly, slowly!
Tags: buddhism persistence struggle haiku
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