Persistence Quotes

"You must knock on doors until your knuckles bleed. Doors will slam in your face. You must pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and knock again. It’s the only way to achieve your goals in life" "Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning." "Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end." "I made 5,127 prototypes of my vacuum before I got it right. There were 5,126 failures. But I learned from each one. That's how I came up with a solution." "Paralyze resistance with persistence" "Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th" "I am not the richest, smartest or most talented person in the world, but I succeed because I keep going and going and going." "You never lose a dream, it just incubates as a hobby" "This is the other secret that real artists know and wannabe writers don’t. When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us" "The first steps of any undertaking are always the most difficult and require the most energy" "Every hero doesn’t do this great big heroic thing. They do the simple thing over and over and over again." "He must first clear the ground to lay the foundations strongly." "It’s not true that life is one damn thing after another; it’s one damn thing over and over" "You must write every single day of your life." "The show doesn't go on because it's ready; it goes on because it's eleven-thirty." "What you resist not only persists, but will grow in size" "The act of being an artist is not easy and self-discipline is necessary." "There is always someone out there getting better than you" "When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work." "History teaches us that things that have lasted long without intervention have a reason"